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April 2016 209 C&RL News

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

Kathy Crowe, associate dean, has been named 
interim dean of university libraries at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina-Greensboro. 

Hana Kim has been appointed director of the 
East Asian Library at the University of Toronto. 
Kim rejoins the University of Toronto Libraries 
from the University of British Columbia (UBC), 
where she served as head of their Asian Library. 
Prior to her role at UBC, Kim was the Korean 
Studies librarian at the University of Toronto’s 
East Asian Library for 11 years. 

Mary Markland is now the head librarian for the 
Guin Library at Oregon State University’s Hatfield 
Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon.

Dave Richards has been appointed dean of 
the Dr. C. C. and Mabel L. Criss Library at the 
University of Nebraska-Omaha. Richards pre-
viously served as head of special collections 
and archives at Missouri State University and 
as special collections librarian at the University 
of Southern Mississippi. While in Missouri, he 
served two three-year terms on the board of 
trustees for the Springfield-Greene County 
Library District. He also served on the Missouri 
Historical Records Advisory Board (2003–15) 
and has served on the board of directors for 
the Johnson Library and Museum in Osceola, 
Missouri, since 2011. 

Keli Rylance has been appointed head of univer-
sity archives and special collections at the Kansas 
State University Libraries in Manhattan, Kansas. 

Cindy Belden is now senior cataloging 
librarian at the Angelo State University Library. 

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

Whitney Buccicone has been appointed 
special collections cataloging librarian at the 
University of Washington Libraries. 

Carolyn Caizzi was promoted to head of 
repository and digital curation at the Northwest-
ern University Libraries. 

David Covert has been named interim 
music librarian in the Harold Schiffman Music 
Library at the University of North Carolina-
Greensboro. 

Kathy Dabbour has been appointed associ-
ate dean of the Oviatt Library at California State 
University-Northridge. 

John Dorr was promoted to head of digital 
scholarship services at the Northwestern Uni-
versity Libraries. 

Christine Fischer has been appointed 
head of the Technical Services Department at 
the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

Elizabeth (Liz) Hibbs has been appointed 
learning commons librarian at Texas State Uni-
versity’s Albert B. Alkek Library. 

Katherine Hoarne is now visiting rare 
books librarian at Florida State University. 

D. J. Hoek has been promoted to associate 
university librarian for collections strategies at 
Northwestern University. 

Amy Harris Houk has been appointed 
assistant head of the Research, Outreach and 
Instruction Department at the University Librar-
ies at University of North Carolina-Greensboro. 

Elizabeth (Liz) King is now Humanities 
librarian at Texas State University’s Albert B. 
Alkek Library.

Jennifer Patterson has been appointed 
head of access services at the University of 
Washington Libraries-Bothell. 

Anne Pepitone has been named resource 
discovery and library management systems coor-
dinator at the University of Washington Libraries. 

Michael Perry was promoted to head of 
assessment and planning at the Northwestern 
University Libraries. 

Jeff Phillips has been named visiting 
learning services librarian at Florida State 
University. 



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of Firestone Library, a 
12-year project that has 
just three more years to 
complete. A member of 
the president’s cabinet, 
Trainer is also a trustee 
of Princeton University 
Press and of the Princ-
eton Club Library in 
New York. Previously, 
Trainer was associate 
university librarian at Yale University and direc-
tor of technical and automated services at New 
York University. 

Deaths

Robert J. “Bob” Havlik, 90, director emeritus 
of the Architecture and Engineering libraries at 
the University of Notre Dame, passed away on 
February 29, 2016. Havlik joined the library fac-
ulty at Notre Dame in 1973 and retired in 1992. 
He was also the founding director of the Nova 
University (now Nova Southeastern University) 
Library in Davie, Florida. Havlik was previously a 
librarian at Purdue University, Iowa State Univer-
sity, and Union Carbide in Buffalo, New York. He 
was also a library specialist for the Department 
of Health, Education, and Welfare in Washing-
ton, D.C. While in Washington, he also served 
as president of the Abraham Lincoln Group of 
the District of Columbia. He was coauthor of 
the book Argon, Helium and the Rare Gases, as 
well as author of numerous periodical articles 
and book reviews on engineering, the history of 
science and Abraham Lincoln. He also gave lec-
tures on Abraham Lincoln, astronomy, and other 
topics, including the Chicago World’s Fair. 

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Amauri Serrano has been named Hu-
manities librarian at Florida State University.

Leah Sherman is now visiting arts librarian 
at Florida State University. 

Evviva Weinraub has joined the North-
western University Libraries as associate uni-
versity librarian for digital strategies. 

Mary White has been appointed global 
public health librarian at the University of 
North Carolina-Chapel Hill Health Sciences 
Library.

Beth Filar Wiliams is the head of the 
Library Experience and Access Department at 
Oregon State University’s Valley Library.

Margarita Zamora-Saunders is now ac-
quisitions and collection maintenance supervi-
sor at Oregon State University’s Valley Library.

Retirements

Rachael Naismith, assistant director for infor-
mation and research at Babson Library, Spring-
fi eld College, Massachusetts, is retiring. Naismith 
joined the library staff in 1995 as senior reference 
librarian and was subsequently promoted to 
assistant director.  One of her accomplishments 
was overseeing the merging of the reference and 
circulation departments into the existing public 
services department. Previously, Naismith was 
head of reference at the University of Missouri- 
Kansas City, reference librarian at Carnegie 
Mellon University, and reference librarian/
cataloger at SUNY-Binghamton (now Bingham-
ton University). Naismith published articles on 
wide-ranging topics, including service to migrant 
farmworkers, federated searching, library pub-
lications, usability testing, and library jargon.

Karin A. Trainer, university librarian at Princ-
eton University for 20 years, has announced 
plans to retire at the end of the academic year. 
Trainer, who worked as a librarian in the Catalog 
Department at the university’s Firestone Library 
(1972–78) before returning to Princeton as 
university librarian in 1996, has overseen signifi -
cant developments in the library system. One 
of the most visible changes is the renovation 

Karin A. Trainer