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Bridget Burke has been appointed associate dean for special collections at the University of Oklahoma (OU) Libraries starting next month. Burke will be responsible for the leadership and strategic vision for OU Libraries’ seven distinct special collections. Burke recently visited OU Libraries’ Western History Collections as a member of a team of western American history materials experts to assess and recommend best practices for preservation, acquisition of new materials and enhancement of both the collections’ web presence and its centrality to the scholarly fields of western and Native American history and culture. Currently, Burke is the director of the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming. She formerly served as the dean of libraries at North Dakota State University, as well as having held positions at the Boston College University Libraries, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.