August 2011

August 1 Clara Hudson became support services manager at Virginia Beach (Va.) Public Library.

July 29 Bessie Condos retired as youth services specialist at the California State Library in Sacramento.

August 15 Jennifer Brown will become librarian at the Newbury (Mass.) Elementary School.

June 29 Brett Lear became director of Martin County (Fla.) Library.

Carol Anne Quinn, 72, died July 23. Carol was a retired librarian from Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Effective September 1 Erik Surber will become director of Waukee (Iowa) Public Library.

July 1 Michael Piper was named interim executive director of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS).

January 1, 2012, Jennifer Thompson McKell will retire as director of Chillicothe and Ross County (Ohio) Public Library.

August 5 Darlena Davis left ALA as program coordinator for the Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment.

September 1 Kate Wittenberg was appointed managing director of Portico, a digital preservation service provided by Ithaka.