Dear readers,
Today we are sharing with you an announcement of some very good news for
us here in ABA. In the last year we lost many colleagues to retirement,
and a number of them were supervisors. We are happy that the problem has
been remedied with the hiring of some excellent people. Karl E.
Debus-López, Chief, U.S. General Division and Acting Chief, U.S. and
Publisher Liaison Division, supplied the information on the seven new
ABA supervisors.
Wiggins Announces Seven New Supervisors in ABA
Director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Beacher Wiggins
announced the appointment of seven new supervisors in ABA on June 15,
stating that having the new supervisors in place will be critical to the
directorate's success. Congratulations to the new appointees. Their
brief biographies are listed below.
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*Elmer Klebs* has been appointed to the position of head of the Serials
Social Sciences Section in the U.S. General Division. Klebs currently
works within the section as a senior cataloger. He has also served as
acting section head of the ISSN Publisher Liaison Section within the
U.S. and Publisher Liaison Division. Klebs is an expert serials
cataloger who has provided training to individuals and groups, and he
has written documentation and procedures on the complexities of serials
cataloging.
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*Isabella Marqués de Castilla* has been appointed head of the Middle
East Section in the Asian and Middle Eastern Division. Marqués de
Castilla is currently a program specialist in Administrative Services.
She has worked on numerous programs and projects for Library Services
and is responsible for the exhibit booth at the American Library
Association conferences. Marqués de Castilla also participated in the
Leadership and Career Development Program of the Association of Research
Libraries and the Library of Congress Leadership Development Program.
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*Vondell McKinley* will serve as Art and Religion Section head within
the U.S. General Division. McKinley is currently serving as acting
section head of the History and Military Science Section within the U.S.
General Division. Prior to working within the History and Military
Science Section, McKinley worked as an Intern and than as a cataloger in
the Biology and Agriculture Team of the Arts and Sciences Cataloging
Division. In addition to his current supervisory experience, McKinley
has previous supervisory experience in the private sector and has
extensive experience as a life coach of both adults and children through
numerous personal activities and non-profit associations in which he is
involved.
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*Iliana Mitropolitsky* will assume the position as head of the United
Kingdom and Ireland section in the U.S. Anglo Division. Mitropolitsky
currently works in the Southeast Europe Section of the Germanic and
Slavic Division as a senior librarian, and she has worked for over 20
years in the field of library science. She is an expert cataloger,
specializing in serials cataloging. Mitropolitsky works very closely
with the European Reading Room, the Law Library, and the Digital
Material Exchange Program. She is a liaison to Slavic librarians
worldwide.
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*Miroslava Nezar* has been appointed to head the Southeast Europe
Section in the Germanic and Slavic Division. Nezar most recently worked
in that section as a senior cataloging specialist and acquisitions
specialist for Slovenia. She has worked for the Library for over 25
years, of which 21 years have been in a professional librarian position.
A native speaker of Serbian, Nezar has worked in multiple Slavic
languages and French, and she has served as a simultaneous interpreter,
translator, and presenter to Library visitors.
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*Caroline Saccucci* is the new Head of the Dewey Section within the U.S.
General Division. Saccucci is currently a Cataloging in Publication
(CIP) program specialist in the U.S. and Publisher Liaison Division,
where she has primary responsibility for all cataloging issues related
to the CIP Program, including queries from catalogers and publishers, as
well as participating in new metadata initiatives. She also serves as
the primary point of contact for libraries and institutions in the ECIP
Cataloging Partnership Program and is the RDA expert within the CIP
Program.
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*Aaron Taub* has been appointed to the position of head of the Israel
and Judaica Section within the Asian and Middle Eastern Division. Taub
currently works in the section and has served as acting section head. In
addition to the Library of Congress, he has worked in several libraries,
including the Leo Baeck Institute and the YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research. Taub has reading knowledge of Hebrew; reading, speaking, and
writing knowledge of Yiddish; and reading knowledge of French and
German. He is very active in the field of Judaica librarianship and
currently chairs the Association of Jewish Libraries Cataloging Committee.
Melanie Polutta
Library of Congress
ALAWE:Iberia/Rio
Librarian cataloger
