Sarah E. Thomas, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, has announced the appointment of Jerry Caswell as associate university librarian for library information technologies, effective in March 1998.

Caswell has been assistant director for automated systems at the Iowa State University library since 1990, where he was responsible for the Parks Library implementation and maintenance of the NOTIS library management system. Caswell also held positions at the universities of Vermont and Wisconsin and at Duke University, where he helped plan and implement the networked online catalog among the Triangle Research Libraries.

Caswell has a bachelor's degree in English and in classical literature from Brandeis University, and a master's degree in American history, a master's in library science and a doctorate in library and information science from the University of Wisconsin.