Shoemaker, Matt
May 1, 2020Matt Shoemaker became head of the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio at Temple University Libraries in Philadelphia in October 2019.
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Stewart, John
May 1, 2020The State Library of Ohio promoted John Stewart to director of operations and technology of the Serving Every Ohioan Library Center in Caldwell March 4.
Baker, Barry
May 1, 2020In February, Barry B. Baker retired after 22 years as director of University of Central Florida Libraries in Orlando.
Clark, Dianna
May 1, 2020Dianna Clark retired as director of the State Library of Ohio’s Serving Every Ohioan Library Center December 31.
Kildegaard, Nis
May 1, 2020Nis Kildegaard retired from Edgartown (Mass.) Public Library February 1.
Novak, Denise
May 1, 2020Denise Hogbin Novak retired February 14 after 28 years as acquisitions librarian at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Wood, Julienne
May 1, 2020Julienne L. Wood retired as librarian and head of research services from Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
Kuonen, Cheryl
May 1, 2020Cheryl Kuonen, executive director of Mentor (Ohio) Public Library, received a Woman of Achievement Award from Lakeland Community College March 22.
Brunell, David
May 1, 2020David H. Brunell, 73, executive director of the Bibliographical Center for Research in Aurora, Colorado, for 21 years, died February 14.
Erway, Ricky
May 1, 2020Ricky Erway, 62, senior program officer at OCLC Research until her 2015 retirement, died January 25. Erway began her library career as an instructional materials librarian at University of Wisconsin but became a leader in digital library technologies when she joined a Library of Congress (LC) team evaluating its optical disk project in 1986. At … Continue reading Erway, Ricky
Lynch, Mary Jo
May 1, 2020Mary Jo Lynch, 80, director of the ALA Office for Research and Statistics from 1976-2003, died February 26. In 1994, she received the Rutgers School of Communication and Information and Library Studies’ Distinguished Alumna of the Year Award. Prior to joining ALA, she was a reference librarian at University of Detroit (now University of Detroit … Continue reading Lynch, Mary Jo
Morris, Betty
May 1, 2020Betty J. Morris, 82, former school library program chair at Jacksonville (Ala.) State University, died February 18. She had also taught at University of West Georgia in Carrolton and received the Alabama Library Association’s Eminent Librarian Award in 2014.