This is great news! Congratulations, Sandy! Kevin ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:22:38 -0400 >From: Brent Tarter <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Historian is New Librarian of Virginia >To: [log in to unmask] > > The Library Board meeting in Richmond on Monday, June 11, 2007, >unanimously appointed Sandra Gioia Treadway to be Librarian of Virginia >effective July 1 to succeed Librarian Nolan T. Yelich, who has been the >librarian since March 1995 and is retiring at the end of June. > Treadway has been deputy librarian since January 1996. She has a >doctorate in American history from the University of Virginia and will >receive a master of library and information science from the University >of Tennessee in August 2007. Prior to becoming deputy librarian, >Treadway directed the publications program of the Library of Virginia. >She is a founding editor of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, has >published widely in Virginia history and in Southern women's history, >and is a former president of the Southern Association of Women >Historians. Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D. Department of History James Madison University