New Assistant Head for Digital Library Development

Effective 1 December 2006, Tito Sierra has been named Assistant Head for Digital Library Development in the Digital Library Initiatives Department.

He joins the department?s management team of Steve Morris and James Jackson Sanborn in a new role, providing leadership for the development of innovative applications that advance library services and collections, including the Libraries' Web site.

In March 2006, Sierra was named one of the year's "Movers & Shakers who are transforming libraries for the future" by the national trade publication Library Journal .