Becky Peterson is the director of the newly-designated consortium library formed between the Dillingham Public Library, Dillingham City School District and Bristol Bay campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has a background in public administration and education and is working on her doctorate in adult and higher education at the University of South Dakota.

Elbert County Library District (CO) has appointed Kari Baumann its new director. She comes to the district from positions at the Farr Regional Library (Weld County, CO) and Centennial Park Library (CO) where she served as branch manager. In addition, her previous experience with facility planning and design for two new Weld County libraries will help shepherd Elbert County Library District's planned branch renovations for the future. Baumann is a graduate of Washington and Lee University, Lexington (VA) and earned her MLS from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (IL).

Marcellus Turner, deputy county librarian at the Jefferson County Library, Lakewood (CO) has been named acting county librarian upon the April 30 retirement of long-time library head, William Knott.

Chris Sanford is the new director of the Davis County Public Library System, Farmington (UT). He replaces Pete Giacoma, who retired after 17 years in the position.

Laura Baldwin has joined the staff of the Anchorage Public Library (AK), as collection development coordinator. She comes from the Ocean County Library, Toms River (NJ), where she was principal librarian of collection management.

Three Forks Community College (MT) announced the appointment of Debbie Kramer as its new library director. She replaces Jean Neilsen, who has accepted the position of historical archivist at the Miles City (MT) Public Library. Also in Montana, the Butte Silver Bow Public Library named PEEL (Professional Education and Employment for Librarians) scholar Stef Johnson as systems/reference librarian.