July/August 2021 C&RL News341 P e o p l e i n t h e N e w sAnn-Christe Galloway 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. Elizabeth Dill has been appointed director of university libraries at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut. Annie Downey has been named librarian and di- rector of the University of Washington-Tacoma Library and associate dean of university libraries at the University of Washington Libraries. Appointments Susan J. Breakenridge is now as the assistant dean for business and human resources at the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. Jina DuVernay has been appointed coordinator for African American Studies and Primary Source Literacy at Atlanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library. Katherine Heilman is now electronic resources librarian and assistant professor in the Department of Technical Services at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro’s University Libraries. Anna Liss Jacobsen has been appointed se- nior assistant librarian and medicine and research services librarian at the University of Washington Libraries. Juanita Thacker has been named information literacy lecturer in the Department of Research, Outreach and Instruction at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro’s University Libraries. Sarah R. Ward has been appointed as Perform- ing and Visual Arts librarian at Butler University Retirements Robert (Bob) Anthony has retired as curator of the North Carolina Collection in the Wilson Spe- cial Collections Library at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill University Libraries. An- thony first worked for the collection as a gradu- ate student in 1989, then as a reference associate until 1985. After spending a year at the Charlotte Mecklen- burg Library, he returned in 1986 and became the North Carolina Collection’s fourth curator beginning in 1994. Anthony’s service has been marked by leadership roles in more than 20 organizations, including the Historical Society of North Carolina (past-presi- dent), the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association (past-president), the North Carolina Writers Conference (of which he coauthored a history, and which honored him for service to the state’s literary community), and the Thomas Wolfe Society, which awarded him a citation of merit. Anthony has been named a distinguished alumnus by the School of Information and Li- brary Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. He received the University’s C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award in 2019. Anthony has contributed to books and journals including the North Caro- lina Historical Review, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina, and the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Elliot H. Gertel has been named Irving M. Her- melin Curator Emeritus of Judaica and senior associate librarian emeritus by the Regents of the Uni- versity of Michigan (UM). In his nearly 20 years of ser- vice, Gertel expanded the Ju- daica collection to well over 150,000 items. He acquired or facilitated donations of many important collections in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and Western languages. When the university li- brary, in collaboration with the UM Frankel Cen- ter for Judaic Studies, acquired the Harris Jew- ish Heritage Collection in 2003, Gertel helped Robert (Bob) Anthony Elliot H. Gertel mailto:agalloway%40ala.org?subject= mailto:agalloway%40ala.org?subject= C&RL News July/August 2021 342 oversee the transfer of several thousand items and subsequently became the curator of this collec- tion. Over the years, Gertel provided research and instruction services to faculty and curated Judaica exhibits on campus. His support for the Yiddish Program, as well as his tireless collecting efforts, played a significant role in establishing UM as a leading center of Yiddish studies. In addition to his university contributions, Gertel was a prominent figure in Jewish librarianship at the national level. He served in various leadership capacities in the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL), chaired the Jewish Information Committee of the ALA Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table, and served on the ALA Reference and User Services Association’s Sophie Brody Medal Com- mittee. He vigorously worked on forging a strong connection between the AJL and the ALA. Loring A. Prest, electronic resources librarian and library webmaster at Louis L. Manderino Li- brary at California University of Pennsylvania, re- tired at the end of June 2021. In the 1990s, Prest changed careers and graduated from the library school at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign in 1997. After an interim year at Illi- nois Wesleyan University, he was hired at Califor- nia University. Over the next twenty-three years, he went from Instructor to full Professor, includ- ing nine years as Library Services Department chair. He has been an ALA and ACRL member for twenty-seven years. He especially valued the ACRL Conferences—attending all but one be- tween 1999 and 2019. Deaths Katherine Bowes, senior academic librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Li- braries, has died. On the staff of the Libraries since 2000, Bowes was most recently a mem- ber of User Services, providing research exper- tise for art, architecture, foreign languages, and the Honors College. JoAnn Jacoby, former director of Tutt Library at Colorado College, has died. In 1998, she joined the staff of the University of Illinois as an assistant librarian at the Illinois Natu- ral History Survey Library. Jacoby served in a variety of roles, taking on increasing responsi- bilities through the years (Anthropology and Sociology subject specialist [assistant profes- sor, then associate professor], 2002–08; co- ordinator, New Service Model Programs [as- sociate professor], 2008-12; head of Research and Information Services [associate professor], 2010–15; associate university librarian for user services and associate dean of libraries, 2015–17). Her professional career ended with a three years as the director of Tutt Library at Colorado College (2017–20), before retiring to Washington in coastal North Carolina with her husband. Rachel A. McCaskill, 2013 Association of Re- search Libraries Career Enhancement Program Fellow, has died. McCaskill completed a sum- mer fellowship at the Uni- versity of Arizona’s Main Library before accepting her first professional posi- tion as a two-year resident librarian at the Pennsyl- vania State University Li- braries in 2013. Following her residency, McCaskill worked as learning tech- nologies librarian at the Virginia Common- wealth University Libraries before accepting a position at St. Norbert College in 2019. Mc- Caskill’s chief research interests included equi- ty and justice in academic libraries, advancing technology and innovation in teaching, and accessibility. Advertisers A-R Editions cover 2 Accessible Archives 289 Choice Reviews cover 3 OECD cover 4 OverDrive centerspread, 293 Project Muse 290 Rachel A. McCaskill