Citing the the UCLA Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost InfoDOCKET reports the appointment of Virginia Steel as UCLA’s University Librarian, effective July 15, 2013. “A library director for more than 11 years with significant leadership experience within the University of California system and at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) institutions, Ms. Steel brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise and perspective to this critical role. She currently serves as university librarian at UC Santa Cruz and previously served as director of libraries at Washington State University (2001-05), overseeing the libraries on the Pullman campus and coordinating library services across the four WSU campuses…”
Temple University President Neil Theobald has announced the appointment of Joseph P. Lucia to lead Temple’s library system as the university’s dean of university libraries.
Lucia, who has served as university librarian and director of Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University since 2002, will assume his new position on July 1, 2013.
As dean of university libraries, Lucia will oversee all of Temple’s nine libraries — including those at Temple University Japan and Temple University Rome — as well as Temple University Press. Lucia has been charged by President Theobald with leading a major program of library development, including the construction of a new signature building at Temple’s Main Campus that will connect the university with the greater Philadelphia community…
Library Journal reports on a number of people in the news including:
Martha Conway was named Director of the Special Collections Library, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor. She had served as Interim Director for the past 18 months…
The Juliette K. and Leonard S. Rakow Research Library of the Corning Museum of Glass, NY, named James Galbraith as its new Chief Librarian. He had previously been the Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Resources at DePaul University, Chicago…
Kevin Mulroy was appointed A.J. McFadden Dean of the Claremont Colleges Library, CA, effective July 15. He was formerly Associate University Librarian for Academic Services at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Paul Peters was named the new President of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). He is one of OASPA’s founders and served as the Chair for its annual conferences for the past four years. He is also the Chief Strategy Officer for the Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
Joel Silver was promoted to Director of Indiana University’s Lilly Library, Bloomington. He was previously serving as the Interim Director of the library…
Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam has been appointed Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. The senior research position, which began March 15, gives him four months in residence at the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center…
The George Mason University Libraries, Fairfax, VA, has made two new hires: Kathleen Butler as its Science and Psychology Liaison Librarian and Helen McManus as its Public Policy and Management Studies Liaison Librarian.
Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, River Forest, IL, announced three new faculty changes: Janice Del Negro was named Associate Professor, effective in the fall; Sujin Huggins was named Assistant Professor, effective immediately; and Mary Minow was reappointed as Follett Chair for the 2013–14 academic year.
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