ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

We’re looking for a few good men and women: ACRI seeks nominees for office

Would you like to stand for office in an ACRL section? Would you like to nominate another person for office? If the answer is yes, here’s what you need to do.

ACRL section officers

Candidates for vice-chair/chair-elect of ACRL sections are selected by the nominating committee for each section. If you would like to nominate someone or be nominated for this position, contact the nominating committee chair for the appropriate section prior to the ALA Annual Conference in Atlanta.

Sections may also be looking to identify candidates for other section offices, including secretary and member(s)-at-large. Terms of office for elected positions begin after the 2003 ALA Annual Conference in Toronto.

Section nominating committee chairs

African-American Studies Librarians

Carol Rudisell, Morris Library, University of Delaware, Newark, NJ 19717-5267; rudisell@ udel.edu

Anthropology and Sociology

Cathy Moore-Jansen, Wichita State University Libraries, 1845 Fairmont, Wichita, KS 67260- 0068; cathy.moore-jansen@wichita.edu

Arts

Lorelei Tanji, 536A Main Library, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-8100; ltanji@uci.edu

Asian, African, and Middle Eastern

Elizaburo Okuizumi, 16354 Maryland Avenue, South Holland, IL 60473-2456; oku4@midway. uchicago.edu

College Libraries

Carolyn Sheehy, Oesterle Library, North Central College, Naperville, IL 60540; cas@ noctrl.edu

Community and Junior College LibrariesDavid Voros, Lehigh Carbon Community College Library, 4525 Education Park Drive, Schnecksville, PA 18078-2502; dvoros® lccc.edu

Distance Learning

Carol Moulden, National-Louis University Library, 1000 Capitol Drive, Wheeling, IL 60090- 7201; cmoulden@nl.edu

Education and Behavioral Sciences

Brian Quinn, Texas Tech University Library, Box 40002, Lubbock, TX 79409; libaq@ lib.ttu.edu

Instruction

Ross LaBaugh, Henry Madden Library, California State University at Fresno, 5200 North Barton Avenue, Fresno, CA 93740-8014; rossl@ csufresno.edu

Law and Political Science

Michael Jackson, J. D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912-9101; Michael_Jackson@brown.edu

Literatures in English

Candace R. Benefiel, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-5000; cbenefie@lib-gw.tamu.edu

Rare Books and Manuscripts

Mark Dimunation, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, 101

Independence Avenue S.W., Washington, D.C. 20540-4740; mdim@loc.gov

Science and Technology

Julie M. Hurd, University of Illinois at Chicago, Science Library, M/C 234, P. O. Box 8198, Chicago, IL 60680; jhurd@ uic.edu

Slavic and East European

Mieczyslaw (Mischa) Buczkowski, University of Oregon Library, 1299 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1299; meb@oregon. uoregon.edu

University Libraries

Elaine Didier, 13060 Beacon Hill Drive, Plymouth, MI 48170; didier@oakland.edu

Western European Studies

Richard (Dick) Hacken, 5523 Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602; Richard_Hacken@byu.edu

Women’s Studies

Mila Su, Robert E. Eiche Library, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus, 3000 Ivyside Park, Altoona, PA 16601-3760; mcs@psulias.psu.edu ■

Get involved at ACRL's Legislative Luncheon

ALA National Library Legislative Day is an event that raises awareness about the importance of federal funding for libraries and other library legislative issues. The 28th Annual National Library Legislative Day in Washington, D.C., will be held on May 6 and 7, 2002, at the Holiday Inn on the Hill and will include an ACRL-sponsored luncheon.

Become an academic librarian advocate

National Library Legislative Day events will start on Monday with Briefing Day, This full day of issue briefings will inform and prepare participants for congressional visits on Tuesday. There will be sessions on intellectual property, government information, LSTA, and more.

Network with your academic colleagues

Also on Monday, ACRL will sponsor a legislative luncheon with speakers and panelists for academic librarians who are participating in the Legislative Day activities. The luncheon and discussion will be held from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. and offers the opportunity to meet other academic librarians interested in advocacy, learn about the current issues from expert speakers, and discuss these issues with the luncheon participants.

• Meet an editor from the Chronicle of Higher Education.Scott Jaschik, an editor for the Chronicle of Higher Education, will discuss legislative and policy issues in higher education. This will be a great opportunity to learn how the issues discussed at Library Legislative Day are affecting the entire higher education community and to discuss the concerns of academic librarians with a media representative.

• Learn how the impact of September 11 is affecting academic libraries.There will also be a discussion, led by Tom Susman, on the USA Patriot Act, a law that broadly expands law enforcement’s surveillance and investigative powers. He will also speak to participants about restrictions on access to government information due to concerns about use of this information by terrorists.

Talk to your senators and representatives about the issues

On Tuesday, there will be a short update at the Holiday Inn. The rest of the day, participants will visit their senators and representatives with their state delegations. This is your chance to highlight your library’s programs and activities and to promote the issues that are important to academic libraries.

All members of ACRL are encouraged to attend National Library Legislative Day and the ACRL legislative luncheon. For more information and to make your reservation, please contact Shannon Cary at e-mail: scary@ala.org or by phone at (800) 545-2433, ext. 2510.