Departures and Retirements
Prof. Songqian Lu retired at the end of the Spring 2014 semester. Songqian was Information Technology librarian at City Tech Library. She came to City Tech in 2003 and was President of the Northeast Chapter of the Chinese American Library Association (CALA) in 2007-2008.
Juanita Gonzalez, CUNY Accounting Assistant, and Arnita Finerson, CUNY Office Assistant, retired. Peter Benitez (right), CUNY Office Assistant, has taken a new position as Assistant Energy Analyst with CUNY Central.
Appointments
Cailean Cooney (left) was appointed Access Services Librarian, Instructor. Previously Cailean was a substitute librarian at City Tech Library (see Library Liaison’s interview with Cailean in the Spring 2014 issue).
Suraya Choudhury (right) joined City Tech Library as Library Administrative Specialist (HEA).
Araceli De Sosa, CUNY Office Assistant, joined City Tech Library in the Technical Services area (pictured below).
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Chris Brown (below) joined the library as IT Support Assistant.
Yi Chen joined the City Tech Library as our first IT Associate.
Promotions
Prof. Anne Leonard (left) was promoted the rank of Associate Professor and became Coordinator of Information Literacy and Library Instruction.
Alberto Rivera (right) was promoted to Senior College Laboratory Technician.
On Sabbatical Leave
Prof. Tess Tobin was awarded a sabbatical leave for the fall 2014 and spring 2015 semesters.
Prof. Nancy Gonzalez was awarded a sabbatical leave for the spring 2014 and spring 2015 semesters.
