April 2020 211 C&RL News Ed. note: To ensure that your personnel news is considered for publication, write to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, at email: agalloway@ ala.org. P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway Janet Carleton has been appointed to the State Library Board by the State Board of Education of Ohio. Carleton has 24 years of library experience, including more than 20 years at Ohio Univer- sity Libraries, and ex- tensive knowledge of librarianship in special collections and digi- tization. Since 2005, Carleton has been the digital initiatives coordinator for Ohio Uni- versity Libraries, where she is responsible for digitization, digital preservation, and so- cial media promotion of the libraries’ unique resources. Her career at Ohio University Li- braries began in 1998 at the Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections as a Scripps project reformatting archivist and continued in 2000 as digital projects librarian. Appointments Caroline Curry Mills has been named direc- tor of Furman Libraries. As part of her strategic leadership in her pre- vious post as interim director of Furman Li- braries and assistant li- brarian, Mills facilitated a library external re- view and cochaired the library self-study. Mills has assumed a variety of roles within the library and across the Furman campus, including Ally, Safe Zone Training, and has served as com- mittee member for Furman’s Cultural Life Program, academic discipline, and first-year experience. She has also served as university copyright officer. Prior to her arrival at Furman in 2008, Mills served as library director at Tri County Technical College and associate direc- tor at the Eugene T. Moore School of Educa- tion Media Center. Patricia Guardiola has been named the director of the Fisher Fine Arts Library at Penn Libraries. Guardiola joined the Penn Libraries in 2015 as assistant director of the Fisher Library. Before joining Penn, she was a Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship and then reference and instruction librarian in the Haas Family Arts Library at Yale Uni- versity. Guardiola’s experience spans the library and fine arts fields. Her professional background includes research and instruc- tion services, collection development, cata- loging, teaching, and curation. Her career in libraries began with a role at the Louisville Free Public Library. Guardiola is active in the Visual Resources Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America. Ashley Blinstrub has been appointed stu- dent success and inclusion librarian at George Mason University Libraries. Melanie Bopp has been named head of Access Services at George Mason University Libraries. Rivkah Cooke is now head of electronic re- sources acquisitions with the Indiana University Libraries-Bloomington. Mayra Corn has joined the University of Nevada-Las Vegas University Libraries as the undergraduate medical education liaison li- brarian and technology manager in the Health Sciences Library. Rosanne Couston is now social sciences distance education librarian for Pima Commu- nity College. Sharona Ginsberg has been appointed head of Terrapin Learning Commons at the University of Maryland-College Park. Caroline Curry Mills Janet Carleton mailto:agalloway%40%20ala.org?subject= mailto:agalloway%40%20ala.org?subject= C&RL News April 2020 212 Karen Glover has been named associate dean for content, access, and user services at Georgia Institute of Technology Library. Michael Hunter is now resource shar- ing librarian at George Mason University Libraries. David Lemmons has been appointed instruction coordinator at George Mason University Libraries. Catherine Manci has joined the Georgia Institute of Technology Library as the public programming and community engagement librarian. Katherine O’Clair is now associate dean for academic services at Robert E. Kennedy Library at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity in San Luis Obispo. Dorothee Schubel has been named metadata and cataloging librarian at George Mason University Libraries. Nancy Shin has been appointed senior assistant librarian, NNLM PNR research and data coordinator, at the University of Wash- ington Libraries. Christine Woods has been named re- gional librarian for Saint Leo satellite centers at Saint Leo University in Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and California. Retirements Barry B. Baker has retired from the Uni- versity of Central Florida Libraries (UCF) after 22 years as director. Baker joined UCF in 1997 from University of Georgia Librar- ies, where he had served as assistant di- rector for technical services for 16 years. Baker was instrumental in developing the libraries’ Regional Campus network of li- brarians, the opening of the Rosen College and Downtown libraries, and oversaw a marked increase in both print and digital information resources. He was particularly interested in building special collections and archives, and several important col- lections were obtained during his tenure, including the Georgine and Thomas Mick- Advertisers Accessible Archives cover 2 American Psychological Association 177 Brepols cover 4 Choice 186, cover 3 Modern Language Association 161 Project Muse 162 Rakuten OverDrive 165 ler Floridiana Collection, the Sol and Sa- die Malkoff Book Arts Collection, the Carol Mundy African-American Legacy Collec- tion, the Harrison Price Company Archives of travel and tourism, and numerous addi- tions to the Libraries’ Caribbean and Lat- in American art collections. Baker’s most notable accomplishment is the successful redevelopment of the John C. Hitt Library on UCF’s main campus. Over his 53-year library career, Baker was active profession- ally with ACRL, the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services, and the Association of Southeastern Research Li- braries. He served on the Executive Coun- cil and in other leadership positions with the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries, and was selected Caribbean Information Pro- fessional of the year in 2007. Baker edited the “Technical Services Report” in Techni- cal Services Quarterly and is a noted expert in cataloging and acquisitions. Wendy Pradt Lougee has retired after more than 17 years as university librar- ian and dean of libraries at the Universi- ty of Minnesota. Previously, she spent 20 years at the University of Michigan with earlier appointments at Brown University and Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Throughout her career, Lougee has been at the forefront nationally —developing a number of programs, initiatives, and poli- cies that have revolutionized academic li- brarianship, particularly in the area of in- novation and technology.