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Kari Baumann is the new Director of the Elbert County Library District, Elizabeth, CO. She was Branch Manager, Farr Regional Library, Weld County Library District, Greeley, CO.

Valerie Bell has been promoted to Assistant Director of Public Services, Ocean County Library (OCL), Toms River, NJ. She was Chief Librarian of Branch Services for OCL. Bell was a 2006 LJ Mover & Shaker.

Laurie Brooks has been named Associate Deputy Director, Office of Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). She was Senior Library Grant Program Officer, State Programs Division, for IMLS and replaces the retiring George Smith.

Christian Dupont has joined Atlas Systems as Program Director for Aeon, a circulation and request management system. He was Director of Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Carlos Manjarrez has been named Associate Deputy Director for Research and Statistics, Office of Policy, Planning, Research, and Communications at the Institute of Museum and Library Services. He was a Principal Investigator at the Urban Institute.

Nancy Seamans has been appointed Dean of Libraries, Georgia State University, Atlanta. She was Associate University Librarian at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Stephen Wood, Director of the Cleveland Heights–University Heights Public Library since 1988, will retire August 31. Wood joined the library staff in 1977.

George Atiyeh, former Acting Chief of the Library of Congress's (LC) African and Middle East Division from 1991 to 1994, has died at the age of 84. He headed the Near East Section of LC for more than 25 years and retired in 1996.

Marguerite Christensen, former University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison Librarian, died May 6; she was 90 years old. From 1967 to her retirement in 1982, Christensen was head of the general reference section at UW's Memorial Library.

Eugene McLane, Director of the Fond du Lac Public Library, WI, from 1956 to 1992, died recently at the age of 81. He founded the Mid-Wisconsin Federated Library System in 1972 and also served as its Director for 18 years.