Yale Daily News: Former dean of the graduate school Jon Butler will assume the post of Acting University Librarian Dec. 1, stepping into the gap left by the sudden death of University Librarian Frank Turner GRD ’71.
Butler, whose six-year term as dean ended this June, was on leave to write a book, but has agreed to assume leadership of Yale’s libraries until a new librarian is found, University President Richard Levin said in an e-mail Monday. Turner, a history professor who had served as University provost, passed away Nov. 11 at age 66.
“We all feel, and will continue to feel for a long time, the deep sadness of Frank Turner’s passing,” Levin said in the e-mail. “I write now, however, with the very good news that Frank’s long-time colleague and friend, Jon Butler…has agreed to serve as the Acting University Librarian until a permanent librarian is appointed.”
Butler has been chair of both the American studies and history departments as well as director of the division of humanities. He has also served on several search and advisory committees related to Yale’s libraries and he chaired the search for a University librarian in 1994.
Butler is currently working on a book called “God in Gotham,” about religion in New York City.
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