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College & Research Libraries News

ACRL seeks volunteers for committees

The Association needs your help to achieve its goals and objectives.

Would you like to volunteer for appointment to an ACRL standing committee or editorial board? Are you interested in being considered for appoint- ment to a section committee? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, here is what you need to do.

ACRL committees

ACRL has 21 standing committees to which ap- pointments may be made:

•Academic Library Statistics Committee; •Academic or Research Librarian of the Year Award Committee;

•Academic Status Committee;

•Appointments and Nominations Committee; •ACRL/AECT Joint Committee;

•Audiovisual Committee;

•budget and Finance Committee;

•Conference Program Planning Committee; •Constitution and Bylaws Committee; •Copyright Committee;

•Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Committee; •Legislation Committee;

•Membership Committee;

•National Conference Committee;

•Planning Committee;

•Professional Association Liaison Committee; •Professional Education Committee; •Publications Committee;

•Research Committee;

•Samuel Lazerow Fellowship Committee; •Standards and Accreditation Committee.

To learn about the areas of responsibility covered by these committees, see the ALA Handbook of Organization 1987-88.

When selected vacancies occur on ACRL standing committees, the Appointments and Nominations Committee recommends to the presidentelect of ACRL the names of members who might fill the vacancies. The president-elect makes the final appointments. If you are interested in being considered for appointment to an ACRL committee, you should complete the ACRL Committee Volunteer Form that is included in this issue of C&RL News and mail it to John C. Tyson, chair of the Appointments and Nominations Committee, before December 15, 1987.

ACRL section officers

ACRL has 14 sections (their names are listed later in this article). You will find a description of their areas of responsibility in the ALA Handbook of Organization.

The chair-elect of a section appoints the chair and members of all section committees when scheduled vacancies on these committees occur. If you would like to be considered for appointment as chair or member of a section committee, fill out the ACRL Committee Volunteer Form and mail it to the chair-elect of the appropriate section (see “People to Contact” below) before December 15, 1987.

Editorial boards

ACRL has five editorial boards:

•the Choice Editorial Board;

•the College & Research Libraries Editorial Board;

•the College & Research Libraries News Editorial Board;

•the Publications in Librarianship Editorial Board;

•the Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship Editorial Board.

When a vacancy occurs on an editorial board, the editor recommends 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 publication (see “People to Contact” below).

Remember that at any given time there are only a limited number of vacancies on ACRL’s committees, sections, and editorial boards. If at first you don’t succeed in obtaining an appointment, try again. Make yourself known to committee chairs by sitting in on meetings, volunteering to help with committee projects, etc. If committee chairs see that you are interested in the work of their committees, they may recommend your name to the appropriate appointing body when a vacancy occurs.

People to contact

Anthropology and Sociology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Stephen E. MacLeod, 111 Marine Avenue, Balboa Island, CA 92662.

Art Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Charles R. Smith, Humanities Reference Librarian, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843.

Asian and African Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: BasimaBezirgan, Middle East Cataloger/Arabic Specialist, Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637.

Bibliographic Instruction Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: David N. King, 808 W. Green, Champaign, IL 61820.

College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Eleanor H. Pinkham, Director of Library and Media Services, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI 49007.

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Shirley A. Lowman, Library Technical Services Director, Maricopa Community College, 2325 E. McDowell Road, Phoenix, AZ 85006.

Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Nancy O’Brien, Associate Professor of Library Administration, University of Illinois Library, Room 100, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801.

Law and Political Science Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Carole A. Lawson, Social Sciences Reference Librarian, Reference Department, University of Nebraska at Omaha Library, Omaha, NE 68182-0237.

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: William L. Joyce, Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ 08540.

Science and Technology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Laura M. Osegueda, 16 Turner Street, Raleigh, NC 27607.

Slavic and East European Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Barbara A. Galik, 117C Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1204.

University Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: KarenS. Siebert, Associate University Librarian for Public Services, Davis Library 080A, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.

Western European Specialists Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: John B. Dillon, European Humanities Bibliographer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. Women’s Studies Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Beth Stafford, 510 S. Elm St., #7, Champaign, IL 61820.

Editorial Boards

ChoiceEditor: Patricia Sabosik, Choice, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06457.

College b Research LibrariesEditor: Charles Martell, University Librarian, California State University, 2000 Jed Smith Drive, Sacramento, CA 95819.

College b Research Libraries NewsEditor: George M. Eberhart, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

ACRL Publications in LibrarianshipEditor: Arthur P. Young, Dean of Libraries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881.

Rare Books b Manuscripts LibrarianshipEditor: Ann S. Gwyn, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218. ■ ■