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ACRL leadership opportunities

Get involved in your association

Now is a good time to increase your involvement in ACRL by voiunteering to serve on a division or section committee. Vice-president Mary L. Reichel invites all ACRL members to contact the Appointments Committee about serving on one of ACRL’s 24 committees for next year. Members may also contact one of the section vice-chairs regarding service on one of the many section committees.

Committee members help shape the organization by implementing its Strategie plan (available at http://www.ala. org/acrl/stratpla. html), reshaping the association, and influencing the direction of academic and research librarianship.

Meet new people when you staff the ACRL Booth. Here Lois Cherepon (right) greets Lenora Locket (left).

You benefit by voiunteering

Volunteers not only give to the association, they get back from the association:

• Build ties with academic and research librarians around the country.

• Enhance your leadership abilities through consensus building and persuasion.

• Share your expertise with colleagues.

• Gain additional expertise—learn more about a new area of academic librarianship or pick up new ideas for your current area.

Appointments: The process

Appointments are made at both the section and division levels. The ACRL vice president is responsible for the committee appointments at the division level for the year he or she serves as president. Likewise, section vice chairs are responsible for committee appointments in their respective sections the year they serve as chair. Committee slates are usually completed shortly after the Midwinter

Meeting during the year in which the individual serves as president-elect or chair-elect. The ACRL Appointments Committee assists the president-elect in this process in an advisory capacity.

Factors influencing appointment

Although the emphasis in the appointment process may vary from year to year according to the prerogatives of the president-elect and section chairs, the same factors are considered. They include:

• Evidence of potential committee member’s interest. Have you attended the meetings and introduced yourself to the chair? Do you have previous experience that relates to the work of the committee? Have you indicated your interest on the volunteer form?

• Demographics and composition of committee. A balance is sought with respect to type of Iibrary (community College, college, or university), geographic representation. ethnic diversitv. and eender.

Membersworktogethertosolve common problems.

• The recommendation of the current committee chair. Current committee chairs are asked to suggest potential members. Although all of these factors are considered, the final appointments are the prerogative of the ACRL president-elect and the section chair-elects.

How to apply

1) Select the committees that interest you. The ALA Handbook of Organization lists all of ACRL’s committees and their charges. (Ed. note: The Handbook is published as a special issue of American Libraries and will automatically be mailed to all ALA members in mid-November.) Attend the committee’s meetings at the Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference to help you decide if those are the activities that interest you.

2) Introduce yourself. Talk with committee members. Express your interest to the committee chair. Explain how you might contribute to the work of the committee.

3) Submit a volunteer form. Complete the volunteer form included with this article. (Ed. note: This form is also available on ACRL’s homepage at http://www.ala. org/acrl .policy/apxafrms .html.)

Be sure to cover all of the items asked for in the background Information section of the form. If you have attended committee meetings or programs, mention that. Fill out one form for ACRL division committees and a different form for each ACRL section you volunteer to serve on. Send the ACRL committee volunteer form to Susana Hinojosa at the address on the bottom of the volunteer form; send the section volunteer forms to the appropriate section chair-elects (see list of addresses below).

4) Volunteer again … and again. If you are not successful in being appointed one year, volunteer again the next year . . and the next. Remember that a multitude of factors—number of appointments made, number of volunteers for each committee, number of volunteers frorn your type of library or your geographic area— determine the actual appointment, and these factors change from year to year.

ACRL section appointments

ACRL has 17 sections (listed below). You will find a description of their areas of responsibility in the ALA Handbook of Organization, 2000-2001. The chair-elect of a section appoints the chair and members of all section committees. Most of these appointments are made in the spring for terms beginning immediately after the ALA Annual Conference.

If you would like to be considered for appointment as a chair or member of a section committee, fill out the ACRL Section Committee Volunteer Form and mail it to the chair-elect of the appropriate section listed below before December 4, 2000.

African American Studies Librarians Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Carol A. Rudisell, Librarian, University of Delaware Library Newark, DE 19717-5267; e-mail: rudisell@udel.edu.

Anthropology and Sociology Section.

Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Anna L. DeMiller, Coordinator, Reference Services-Collection Management, Colorado State University Libraries, Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1019; e-mail: ademiller@manta.colostate.edu.

AKTS Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Maiy R. Strow, Head, Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Library, Indiana University at Bloomington, HPER Building 031, Bloomington, IN 47405; e-mail: mstrow@ indiana.edu.

Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Junlin Pan, Reference Librarian, Northern Illinois University, Founders Memorial Library, Room 145E, DeKalb, IL 60115-2868; e-mail: jpan@niu.edu.

College Libraries Section.Vice-Chair/ Chair-elect: Lynn Scott Cochrane, Director of Libraries, Denison University Library, Granville, OH 43023; e-mail: scottie. cochrane@marymount. edu.

Community and Junior College Libraries Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: David S. Voros, Lehigh Carbon Community College, 4101 Sand Spring Road, Apt. L2, Schnecksville, PA 18078-2502; e-mail: svl@lccc.edu.

Distance Learning Section.Vice-Chair/ Chair-elect: Anne M. Casey, Off-Campus Library Services Librarian, Central Michigan University, Rose 143,

Mount Pleasant, MI 48859; e-mail: anne.marie.casey® cmich.edu.

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section.

Vice-Chair/Chairelect: Brian A.

Quinn, Social Science Librarian, Texas Tech University Libraries, Box 40002, Lubbock, TX 79409-0002; email: libaq@lib.ttu.edu

Kristine Brancolini and Carleton Jackson grab a bite to eat between their committee meetings.

Instruction Section.Vice-Chair/Chairelect: Beth S. Woodard, Central Information Services Librarian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 300 Library, 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801; e-mail: bswoodar@uiuc.edu.

Law and Political Science Section.Vice- Chair/Chair-elect: Lisa R. Stimatz, Pub Affairs/ Government Inf., 7 Wedgewood Apts E. Willow Street, Elizabethtown, PA 17022; e-mail: lzs3@psu.edu.

Literatures in English Section.Vice- Chair/Chair-elect: Kristine J. Anderson, Purdue University Libraries, 1530 Stewart

Center, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1530; e-mail: kanderso@purdue.edu.

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section.

Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: M. Susan Taraba, University Archivist, Wesleyan LTniversity, 2 Maple Shade Road, Middletown, CT 06457-5107; email: staraba@wesleyan.edu.

Science and Technology Section.Vice- Chair/Chair-elect: JoAnn DeVries, Reference/ Bibliographer, University of Minnesota, St. Paul Campus Libraries, 1984 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108; e-mail: j-devr@maroon. tc.umn.edu.

Slavic and East European Section.Vice- Chair/Chair-elect: Sandra L. Levy, Assistant Slavic Librarian, University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637- 1502; e-mail: sll6@ midway.uchicago.ed

University Libraries Section.

Vice-Chair/Chairelect: Julia A. Zimmerman, Dean of Libraries, Ohio University Libraries, Alden Library 510, Athens, OH 45701-2978; e-

Western European Specialists Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Barbara L. Waiden, European History Librarian, 278A Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706; e-mail: bwalden@library.wisc.edu.

Woman’s Studies Section.Vice-Chair/ Chair-elect: Connie L. Phelps, University of New Orleans, Earl K. Long Library, P.O. Box 24307, New Orleans, LA 70148; e-mail: cphelps@uno.edu.

ACRL divisional committee appointments

ACRL has 24 Standing committees to which appointments may be made for 2000-2001. A list appears on the volunteer fonn at the end mail: zimmerjl@ohio.edu of this article. You will find the committees listed with a description of their charges in the ALA Handbook of Organization. Appointments to ACRL standing committees are made in the spring for terms beginning immediately after the ALA Annual Conference. The Appointments Committee recommends to the president-elect of ACRL the names of members who might fill the vacancies. The president-elect makes the final appointments. If you want to be considered for an appointment to an ACRL committee, complete the form and retum it to Susana Hinojosa at the address given on the form before December 4, 2000.

Editorial boards

ACRL has editorial boards for these six publications: CHOICE College & Research Libraries; College & Research Libraries News-, New Publications; Publications in Librarianship, and Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship.

Appointments to editorial boards are made at the Midwinter Meeting for terms that begin immediately after the ALA Annual Conference. The editors recommend the name of a person to fill the vacancy. The Publications Committee must approve the recommendation, and the president of ACRL makes the appointment. If you would like to be considered for appointment to an editorial board, contact the editor of the editorial board early in the fall.

CHOICEeditor: Irving Rockwood, Choice, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06457; e-mail: irockwood@ala-choice.org.

College & Research Librarieseditor: Donald E. Riggs, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314-7796; e-mail: driggs® nsu.acast.nova.edu.

College & Research Libraries Newseditor: Mary Ellen Davis, C&RL News, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: medavis@ala.org.

New publications editor: Hugh Thompson, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611- 2795; e-mail: hthompson@ala.org.

Publications in Librarianshipeditor: John Budd, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, 217 Townsend Hall, Columbia, MO 65211; e-mail: libsjmb@showme.missouri.edu.

Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianshipeditors: Lisa M. Browar, Director, Indiana University, Lilly Library, Bloomington, IN 47405; lbrowar@indiana.edu; Marvin J. Taylor, Special Collections, New York University, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012; taylorm@is2.nyu.edu. ■