[SWANboard] FW: SWAN Employee Announcement

SWAN Board, I will send an announcement out via SWANcom tomorrow around noon. The MAGIC staff have been informed, as has some MAGIC leadership. The RAILS staff will be emailed tomorrow morning. I have negotiated with RAILS some arrangements I will detail to you all later. Over the past year many SWAN staff have collaborated with Dawne on a number of projects and everyone is immediately impressed by her abilities. I am very excited and in fact honored Dawne wanted to join SWAN. She is precisely what SWAN needs for an Assistant Director. I would ask you to wait until the SWANcom is sent before discussing this with non-SWAN Board library directors. Aaron Skog Executive Director aaron@swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-7022 SWAN Library Services 800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559 swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/> From: Aaron Skog Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 2:45 PM To: All SWAN Staff &lt;allstaff(a)swanlibraries.net&gt; Subject: SWAN Employee Announcement Hello team, We have an exciting staffing announcement for you all. We have officially hired our new Assistant Director for SWAN. Dawne Tortorella will be joining us starting on Monday, June 4th. For the duration of the ongoing LINC & MAGIC migration project she will be devoting much of her time in her new role to overseeing this process, and to ensuring that MAGIC continues to have the support that it needs for success. Dawne comes to us with a wealth of library-world experience, including having most recently helped to leading the MAGIC consortium under while working for RAILS. She has also worked for OCLC, taught MLS and MIS coursework for Dominican, San Jose State, and DePaul, and led her own company Bellcow which provides tech support and IT strategy for libraries and other organizations. We welcome her expertise with libraries, consortial operations and strategy, SirsiDynix, and IT, and feel truly fortunate to have her join SWAN. I will send out an email to the SWAN membership tomorrow around 12 noon. Until that time, I would ask that you hold off on sharing this information with anyone other than your teammates. Aaron Skog Executive Director aaron@swanlibraries.net<mailto:aaron@swanlibraries.net> * (630)326-7022 SWAN Library Services 800 Quail Ridge Drive, Westmont, IL 60559 swanlibraries.net<https://www.swanlibraries.net/> * catalog.swanlibraries.net<https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/>