People

Douglas Bates has been named Dean of Library and Learning Assistance at Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, a newly expanded position, effective July 1. He has been University Librarian at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Laie.

John Blythe has been appointed Special Projects and Outreach Coordinator for the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Library, Chapel Hill; he was Project Librarian for the North Carolina Maps at UNC. Maggie Dickson became Digital Projects Librarian for UNC’s North Carolina Digital Heritage Center; she was Beaux Arts to Modernism Digital Project Librarian at the North Carolina State University Library, Raleigh.

Gwat-Yong Lie has become Interim Associate Dean of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UW-M). Lie comes from the UW-M’s Helen Bader School of Social Work, where she has served as Associate Professor since 1996.

Connie Kearns McCarthy retired recently as Dean of University Libraries at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA. Under her leadership the Earl Gregg Swem Library expanded more than 100,000 square feet. She earlier was Assistant University Librarian and then Associate University Librarian at Duke University, Durham, NC.

Dennis A. Norlin has retired from the position of Executive Director, American Theological Library Association (ATLA). During his 15-year tenure, ATLA membership topped 1000. Cameron Campbell, ATLA’s Director of Indexes, has been appointed Interim Executive Director.

In Memoriam
Ron Clowney died May 22 from complications arising from his long battle with kidney disease; he was 47. He had a 25-year career with ProQuest, most recently as VP of Sales in North America.

Karin Durán, 61, died June 11 from a stroke. She was a Reference Librarian and Bibliographer at California State University, Northridge, Oviatt Library for 38 years and was responsible for the Teacher Curriculum Center. Additionally, she was a long-time instructor in the Chicana/o Studies Department.

Spencer Shaw, Professor Emeritus, School of Library and Information Science, University of Washington (1970–86), has died at 93. Shaw’s areas of expertise were storytelling and multicultural children’s literature. He was President of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) from 1975 to 1976 and recipient of the ALSC Distinguished Service Award in 1998.