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P e o p l e  i n  t h e  N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway

Appointments

Charlie Barlow has been appointed executive 
director of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC). 
Barlow joined BLC from the Associated Colleges 
of the Midwest (ACM), a consortium of 14 lib-
eral arts colleges across five states. As ACM’s 
vice president for strategic initiatives and pro-
grams, he led strategic planning, the develop-
ment and launch of new programs, institutional 
data reporting, partnerships and engagement, 
as well as related communications, operations, 
and grants management. Prior to ACM, Barlow 
served as the director of the Policy Research 
Collaborative at Roosevelt University. Drawing 
upon a rich history of engaged scholarship and 
experiential learning, he increased opportuni-
ties for civic partners and the university com-
munity to address interdisciplinary policy issues, 
including racial equity, housing and economic 
mobility, health justice, and youth development. 
Barlow held academic appointments in geogra-
phy and public policy studies at the University 
of Chicago.

Linda Kopecky has been named associate 
dean for the university libraries at the Uni-
versity of Nevada-Reno. Kopecky’s primary 
responsibility is to lead the teaching, learn-
ing, and research-related departments and 
services of the libraries, as well as working 
to ensure the libraries are highly engaged in 
meeting the needs of a Carnegie R1 university 
in a rapidly changing academic environment. 
She supports the libraries’ Equity, Diversity, 
and Inclusion (EDI) committee leading EDI 
initiatives, training programs, and educational 
workshops. Kopecky also provides leader-
ship for the libraries’ learning-centered ser-
vice model that encourages student engage-

ment, experiential learning, and knowledge 
creation in a collaborative environment. 

Stacey Krim was appointed assistant 
professor and curator of manuscripts at the 
University of North Carolina-Greensboro. 

R e t i r e m e n t s

Sharon Bostick, dean of libraries at Illinois In-
stitute of Technology (IIT), retired in 2019. Bostick 
joined IIT in 2012. Among her many accomplish-
ments, she enhanced student spaces and services 
to allow for innovative collaboration and learn-
ing, created the Exploration Space for prototyping 
and experiential learning, responded to student 
needs by expanding overnight service to both 
levels of the library, and leveraged partnerships 
by rejoining the Center for Research Libraries and 
serving on the Board of Directors for the Chicago 
Collections Consortium. Bostick has written and 
presented extensively on information-seeking be-
havior in university students, on academic and li-
brary consortia in the United States, and academic 
library building design. In 2016 she brought the 
International Federation of Library Association to 
Galvin Library to host their satellite conference on 
library design, attended by library professionals 
from all over the world. She also created the Li-
brary Anxiety Scale, a statistically validated instru-
ment, which is in use worldwide as a diagnostic 
and research tool. Her contributions have helped 
libraries better understand and adapt to the evolv-
ing needs of their users.  

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