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librarian at Collins Memorial Library at the 
University of Puget Sound.

Debbie Verhoff has joined Northwestern 
University Library as the art collection public 
services librarian.

R e t i r e m e n t s

Tom Dillard, head of the University of Arkan-
sas Libraries’ special collections department 
since 2004, retired in January 2012. Dillard be-
gan working in the field of Arkansas history in 
1977, when he was appointed the first historian 
on the staff of the Arkansas State Parks. In 1981 
he became the director of the Department of 
Arkansas Heritage, a cabinet-level post under 
Governor Frank White and later Governor Bill 
Clinton. During his tenure there, he organized 
and chaired the commemoration of Arkansas’s 
150th birthday celebration and was selected as 
the “Humanist of the Year” by the Arkansas En-
dowment for the Humanities. In 1986 he was 
hired as the first archivist for the University of 
Central Arkansas (UCA), assigned the task of 
building a university archives from scratch. In 
1997 Dillard left UCA to join the Central Ar-
kansas Library System, with the goal of creat-
ing an archival program. There he created the  
Richard C. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. 
As curator of the Butler Center, Dillard worked 
with a statewide team to create the Encyclope-
dia of Arkansas History & Culture.  

A p p o i n t m e n t s

John E. Buschman has been appointed dean 
of university libraries at Seton Hall University, 
effective July 1, 2012. Buschman comes from 
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., 
where, since 2007, he has been associate 
university librarian for scholarly resources and 
services. Prior to Georgetown, Buschman was 
a professor, librarian, department chair, and 
acting dean of university libraries for 19 years 
tenure at Rider University in Lawrenceville, 
New Jersey, and he served as an assistant 
reference librarian at Saint Joseph’s University 
in Philadelphia. 

Kimberly Abrams has joined Adelphi 
University as acquisitions librarian. 

Karen Bjork has been appointed digital 
initiatives coordinator at Portland State Uni-
versity Library. 

Allen Clayton has been named digital 
projects librarian at the University of Texas-
Dallas Eugene McDermott Library. 

Meredith Farkas is now head of instruction-
al services at Portland State University Library.

Ty Lovelady has been appointed the first 
university archivist at the University of Texas-
Dallas Eugene McDermott Library.

Theresa Mastrodonato has been appoint-
ed reference librarian and coordinator of library 
instruction for first-year students at Frostburg 
State University in Frostburg, Maryland. 

Wanda Tanghlyn has been named librar-
ian at the University of Texas-Dallas Callier 
Center Library. 

Ngoc-Yen (Yen) Tran is now under-
graduate services librarian at the University 
of Oregon Libraries. 

Benjamin Tucker has been appointed 
business, economics, and social sciences 

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

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