December 2011

In November Karen Conley retired as public relations manager of the Chillicothe and Ross County (Ohio) Public Library.

In February, Pat Hawthorne will become director of library organiza­tional development and human resources at Emory University Libraries in Atlanta.

Jessica Nadine Hernández, librarian at the Food and Drug Administration's Biosciences Library, was the only librarian among 25 winners of the 2011 Rising Star in Government Information Technology awards given by Federal Computer Week. Hernández was nominated for recruiting a team of creative and energetic federal employees ("NewFeds") who are interested in modernizing federal libraries.