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The time to lead: ACRL seeks nominees for office

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Would you like to seek office in an ACRL section? Would you like to nominate anyone else for one of these positions? If the answers is yes, here is what you need to do.

ACRL section officers

Candidates for vice-chair/chair-elect of ACRL sections are selected by the Nominating Committee of each section. If you would like to nominate someone or be nominated for vice-chair of an ACRL section, contact the chair of the Nominating Committee for the appropriate section prior to the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans.

Other section officers, including secretary and member-at-large, may also be under consideration for this term of office, which will begin in the summer of 2000.

Section nominating committee chairs

Asian, African, and Middle Eastern

To be announced. Contact the current Vice- Chair, Donald P. Chvatal, Preferred address: 5833 SWTerwilliger Blvd., Portland, OR 97201; dchvatal@teleport.com

African American Studies Librarians

Bennie P. Robinson, BI coordinator & reference librarian, University of Akron, Bierce Library, Buchtel Commons, Akron, OH 44325- 1712; bpr@uakron.edu

Anthropology and Sociology Section

Joyce Ogburn, assistant university librarian for Information Resources and Systems, University Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529-0256; jogburn@odu.edu

Arts

Stephen Bloom, director of the University of Southern Maine Library, University of Southern Maine, Preferred address: 638 Congress St. #711, Portland, ME 04101; Sbloom@usm.maine.edu

College Libraries

C. I. Dillon, library director, Thomas Stanley Library, Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA 24088; cdillon@ferrum.edu

Community and Junior College Libraries

Mary Ann Affleck, director of libraries, Capital Community Technical College, Preferred address: 254 Griswold Dr. W., Hartford, CT 06119-1023; affleck@commnet.edu

Distance Learning

Thomas Abbott, dean, University of Maine at Lewiston-Auburn College, 55-55 Westminster St. Lewiston, Maine 04340; tabbott@maine.edu

Education and Behavioral Sciences

Nancy J. Becker, instructor, St. John’s University, Preferred address: 240 Limestone Rd., Ridgefield, CT 06877; beckern@stjohns.edu

English and American Literature

Timothy Shipe, Arts & Literature bibliographer, Preferred address: University of Iowa, 100 Main Library, Iowa City, LA 52242; Timothy-shipe@uiowa.edu

Instruction

Loanne Snavely, chair, E410 Patee Library, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802; lls@psulias.psu.edu

Law and Political Science

Ron Heckart, librarian, Institute of Governmental Studies, Moses Hall 109, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720; rheckart@library.berkeley.edu

Rare Books and Manuscripts

Laura Stalker, associate director for Technical Services, Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108; lstalker@ huntington.org

Science and Technology

Allison V. Level, associate professor, Southwest Missouri State University, Meyer Library 901 South National, Springfield, MO 65807; allisonlevel@mail.smsu.edu

Slavic and East Europe

Bradley Schaffner, Russian/Soviet Studies bibliographer, Watson Library, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2800; bschaffn@ ukans.edu

University Libraries

Lori A. Goetsch, director of Libraries for Public Services, University of Maryland, 3115

McKeldin Library, College Park, MD 20742- 7011; lgoetsch@deans.umd.edu

Women’s Studies

Daren Callahan, associate professor, Library Affairs, Southern Illinois University, Delyte W. Morris Library, 1803 W. Freeman, Carbonctale, IL 62901-2105; dcallaha@lib.siu. edu

Western European Specialists

Thomas Izbicki, collection development coordinator, Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles, Baltimore, MD 21218; Izbicki@jhu.edu ■