Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 8, 2008|Volume 36, Number 17

New associate university librarians R. Kenny Marone, Debbie McGraw and Kendall Crilly.

Yale University Library starts
the new year with staff changes

Several changes in staff were recently announced at the Yale University Library.

Three new associate university librarians have been named; five other associate librarians have expanded their portfolios; and a new director has been named for the Manuscripts and Archives Department.

New associate librarians

Kendall Crilly, Debbie McGraw and R. Kenny Marone have been appointed associate university librarians, effective Jan. 1. The new appointments have been designed to align the library’s priorities and services better with its organizational structure.

As associate university librarian for program development and research, Crilly 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 1994-2007. He is also a member of the instructional faculty at the Yale School of Music.

McGraw, in her role as associate university librarian and chief administrative officer, is responsible 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 1998-2007 and has worked in a number of positions of increasing financial responsibility at Yale since 1977.

Marone is now 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. She 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 and associate director.

Expanded portfolios

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 the 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, has taken on responsibility for scholarly communications, focusing especially on important and growing issues surrounding copyright. Also, 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 is the new director
for Manuscripts and Archives.

Manuscripts and Archives director

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

Weideman has been interim director of the department for the past 16 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.

For more information on the Manuscripts and Archives department, visit www.library.yale.edu/mssa.

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