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Rachael K. Anderson, director of the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona/Tucson since 1991, retired January 19. * Louella B. Bickford was named head librarian at the Lawrence Library in Fairfield, Maine. * Three decades of work ended at the East Baton Rouge (La.) Parish Library when Elizabeth E. Bingham, head of the adult services division, retired December 21. * Antoinette Cook has retired as director of the Keewatin (Minn.) Public Library. * Betty Corwin, the creator of the New York Public Library's Theater on Film and Tape Archives collection, has retired. * The University of Louisville Libraries has appointed Beth Denham libraries development officer. * After a four-month search, Sonya Dintaman was named director of the Steuben County Library in Angola, Indiana, after serving as interim director. * John Jacob Epstein has joined the staff of Ohio University/Athens as reference librarian/Web manager. * Dorothy W. Field, director of the Orange County Library District in Florida, will retire effective December 2001. * Shirley George, director of the Beaverton (Greg.) City Library for nine years, has retired. * Debra Gniewek, coordinator of libraries for the School District of Philadelphia, resigned in January to take a position with the Council Rock School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. * Grand Rapids, Michigan, native Jim Hibler is the director of the Flat River Community Library in Greenville, Mich., replacing the retiring Pat Noordhoorn. * Chrystal Jeter, youth services manager at the Anchorage (Alaska) Municipal Libraries' AJ. Loussac Library, has accepted the position of youth services manager at the Cleveland Public Library. * Anna Marie Johnson is the new information-literacy team leader at the University of Louisville Libraries. * Steven Koblik is president of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, California, after leaving his post as president of Reed College in Portland, Oregon. * Former Minnesota Library Association president Joan Larson has retired as director of the Northern Lights Library Network. * Sue Luce, former director of the Ontario (Calif.) City Library, is now library director of the Josephine County Library System in Grants Pass, Oregon. * After more than 22 years, Sue Mahmoodi retired as a library specialist for library development and services for the Minnesota Development of Children, Families and Learning. * Nearly 28 years of service came to an end when Chuck Manley, associate director for the Washoe County (Nev.) Library System, retired December 8. * David McArdle has returned to his position as director of the Sawyer Free Library in Gloucester, Massachusetts, after retiring last April from the post where he had served for eight years. Since 1987, she served as Association for Library Collections and Technical Services executive director, and since 1989, Library Adminstration and Management Association executive director. * Library and Information Technology Association Executive Director Jackie Mundell will resign in April. * Mary Pullen has been promoted to human resource generalist-recruiter.