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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 appointment 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 23 standing committees to which appointments 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;

• K.G. Saur Award for Best C&RL Article;

• 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 1988-89.

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 an 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 Melvin R. George, chair of the Appointments and Nominations Committee, before December 15, 1988.

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, 1988.

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 editorial board (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: Janet Steins, Head, Chemistry Library, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3425.

Art Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Paula Murphy, Head of Audiovisual Services, Columbia College Library, 600 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605.

Asian and A frican Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Dona S. Straley, Middle East Librarian, 308 Main Library, Ohio State University, 1858 Neil Ave. Mall, Columbus, OH 43210.

Bibliographic Instruction Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Cerise O berm an, Director, Feinberg Library, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY 12901.

College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Jacqueline Morris, Mary Norton Clapp Library, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Road, Los Angeles, CA 90041.

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: W. Lee Hisle, Director, Learning Resource Services, Austin Community College, P.O. Box 2285, Austin, TX 78768.

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Laurene E. Zaporozhetz, Chair, Information Services, Jerome Library, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403.

Law and Political Science Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Stephen E. Atkins, Political Science Subject Specialist, Education and Social Science Library, Room 100, University of Illinois, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801.

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Peter M. VanWingen, Head, Reference and Reader Services Section, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540.

Science and Technology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Martin Kesselman, Information Services Librarian, Library of Science and Medicine, Rutgers University, P.O. Box 1029, Piscataway, NJ 08855.

Slavic and East European Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Stephen D. Corrsin, Deputy Associate Librarian for Technical Services, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY 11210.

University Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Maxine H. Reneker, Associate University Librarian for Public Services, Ilavden Library 333, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287.

Western European Specialists Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Martha L. Brogan, Assistant to the Vice-President, Office of Academic Affairs, University of Minnesota, 217 Morrill Hall, 100 Church St., SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Womens Studies Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Sarah M. Pritchard, General Reading Rooms Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540.

Editorial Boards

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

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

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

Publications in LibrarianshipEditor: Jonathan A. Lindsey, Coordinator of Library Affairs, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798.

Rare Books & Manuscripts LibrarianshipEditor: Alice D. Schreyer, Head, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark. DE 19717.