Kendall Crilly, Debbie McGraw, and R. Kenny Marone have been appointed Associate University Librarians at Yale University Library effective January 1, 2008. The new appointments have been designed to align the Library’s priorities and services better with its organizational structure. Christine Weideman has also been appointed Director of the Library's department of Manuscripts and Archives.

Kendall Crilly is Associate University Librarian for Program Development and Research. In his new role he will help foster relationships between the many areas of new activity in the Library and will also work to conceptualize the future of the Library as both a repository of the print record and as a leader in the provision of targeted digital services. Crilly served as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Music Librarian and Director of Yale’s Gilmore Music Library from 1994 until 2007, where he led all aspects of that library's collections and programmatic activities. He has worked as a consultant for the Leonard Bernstein Digital Archive at the Library of Congress and has served on the Board of Directors of the Charles Ives Society. He is also a member of the instructional faculty at the Yale School of Music.

Debbie McGraw is Associate University Librarian and Chief Administrative Officer with responsibility for financial management, grant and contract administration, procurement, income, and support services, including payroll for the Library’s approximately 600 employees. Her new portfolios include coordinating heightened attention to security for people and collections and a program of maintenance work throughout the Library system. She was the Library’s Financial Director from 1998 until 2007 and has worked in a number of positions of increasing financial responsibility at Yale since 1977.

R. Kenny Marone is Associate University Librarian and Chair of the new Council of School and Departmental Libraries, which will bring together the expertise of Yale’s departmental libraries with a strengthened voice. Marone continues in her role as Director of Yale’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. She has worked at the Medical Library in a variety of positions over a number of years including Reference Librarian, Head of Reference, Acting Director, Associate Director, and Director. She is a member of the Medical Library Association, where she is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, the North Atlantic Health Science Librarians, and the Connecticut Association of Health Science Librarians. She has also served as a grant reviewer for the National Library of Medicine.

In addition to the three new appointments, five Associate University Librarians now have enhanced responsibilities for special collections, teaching, community relations, scholarly publications, and integrated digital collections and access. Frank Turner, Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and John Hay Whitney Professor of History, assumes additional responsibility for Special Collections coordination and collaboration across the Yale Library system. Danuta Nitecki will manage new educational initiatives in her expanded role as Associate University Librarian for Public Services and Library Teaching and Learning. Diane Turner has added the Library’s community outreach programs to her portfolio as Associate University Librarian for Human Resources, Organizational Development and Staff Training, and Community Relations. Ann Okerson, as Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs, takes on responsibility for scholarly communications, focusing especially on important and growing issues surrounding copyright. Meg Bellinger, who led the Library’s recent negotiations with Microsoft to digitize 100,000 books, continues to direct the Library’s efforts to enhance integrated access and digital collections as Associate University Librarian for Integrated Library Systems and Technical Services. She is co-chair of the Collections Collaborative program bringing together use of collections from the museums, galleries, and libraries. Her role as a leader of campus-wide policies to enhance the digital landscape currently includes the Integrated Digital Image Resource program and the introduction of a far-reaching Digital Repository Service.

Christine Weideman has been appointed of Carrie S. Beinecke Director of Manuscripts and Archives in the University Library.

Weideman has been Interim Director of the department for the past sixteen months. She came to Yale in 1993 as Assistant Head of Manuscripts and Archives and was promoted to Deputy Director in 2005. Prior to joining the University Library, Weideman worked at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan where she trained as an archivist following doctoral-level graduate studies in history.

Weideman has chaired the Manuscripts Repository Section of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), authored a highly disseminated brochure on deeds of gifts, co-developed a series of basic information technology courses for practicing archivists, and published and presented numerous articles and papers. Most recently, she was named a Distinguished Fellow of the SAA, the highest professional honor for an archivist. Weideman has also been an active member of the Yale community, providing leadership on numerous committees while mentoring staff.

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