ACRL College & Research Libraries News

Association of College & Research Libraries

And the winners are …

Jacquelyn McCoy

Thomas G. Kirk

Jacquelyn McCoy,the college librarian at Occidental College in Los Angeles, is the 55th president of the Association for College and Research Libraries. McCoy announced her theme for her 1992-93 year in office as “Academic Libraries at the Crossroad.”

McCoy said, “Although the phrase information age has become something of a cliché, academic and research libraries lie at the heart of efforts to prepare a diverse citizenry for employment and for personal enrichment during a period of rapid technological, economic, political, and social change. Higher education is changing, the clientele we serve is changing, the ways we deliver information products are changing, the library profession itself is changing. As we welcome diversity in our faculty and student populations, we are attempting to increase diversity within our own ranks. Similarly, changes in curriculum, changes in teaching methods and, above all, the electronically wired campus are challenging us to rethink how we go about our business of librarianship.” McCoy’s emphasis will be on educating tomorrow’s information professional to help lead the higher education academy into the next century.

McCoy plans a four-point program that includes diversity, education, leadership, and technology. To assist with the implementation of her theme, McCoy has appointed an ACRL President’s Program committee for 1993 chaired by Jordon Scepanski, California State University, Long Beach. Members include Barbara Moran, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joanne Euster, Univ. of California, Irvine; and Charles Martell, California State Univ., Sacramento.

As president, McCoy will preside over the ACRL Board of Directors and the ACRL Executive Committee, chair the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1993 Annual Conference in New Orleans, and plan ACRLs major program at the conference.

McCoy will also represent ACRL on the ALA New Orleans Conference Planning Program Committee and on the ALA Planning and Budget Assembly. She will also represent ACRL and ALA in their relations with other organizations.

McCoy has served on the ACRL Planning Committee and the Academic or Research Librarian of the Year Award Committee. She was elected chair of the ACRL College Libraries Section (1989-90), chaired the committee that developed ACRL’s Standards for College Libraries in 1986, and was a member of the committee that developed output measures for academic libraries resulting in the publication of ACRL’s Measuring Academic Library Performance: A Practical Guide. She has held several appointments in ACRL’s Bibliographic Instruction Section.

She has authored many books and articles on bibliographic instruction and college library standards including Teaching Library! Skills for Academic Credit (with Mignon Adams; Oryx, 1986).

McCoy has an A.B. in history from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and an MSLS from Syracuse University.

Thomas G. Kirk,college librarian and professor of library science at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, has been elected vice-president/ president-elect of ACRL. The 1992 election results showed 1,464 votes for Kirk and 1,246 votes for Barbara J. Wittkopf, reference librarian at Louisiana State University.

Kirk believes ACRL needs to address three challenges: “More sustained and intensive networking with higher education and professional associations, more intentional coordination of our work with ALA and the other divisions, and strengthening our planning and communication efforts within ACRL.” [Ed. note: Kirk ivelcomes suggestions in these three areas from ACRL members. Write him at Hutchins Library, Berea College, Berea, KY 40404; phone: (606) 986-9341, ext. 5266; fax: (606) 986-9494; or e-mail: BERTGK@ukpr.uky.edu]

As vice-president/president-elect of ACRL, Kirk will serve on the ACRL Board of Directors and the ACRL Executive Committee. He will chair the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1994 Annual Conference in Miami. He will represent ACRL on the ALA Appointments Committee and the ALA Conference Planning Committee for the 1994 Conference. At the end of the 1993 Annual Conference he will become ACRL’s 56th president.

Kirk has been active in ALA and ACRL serving as ACRL’s Councilor to the ALA Council (1986-90) and member of the ACRL Board of Directors. He also served as a member of the ACRL Board from 1979-81. Kirk has served as chair of ACRL’s College Libraries Section (1982) and Science and Technology Section (1980) as well as the ACRL Research Committee (1985-87).

Kirk’s activities include serving on the Board of Directors of SOLINET and as a member of the OCLC Users Council. In 1991 he was named the Academic Librarian of the Year of the Kentucky Library Association, in 1984 he received the Miriam Dudley Bibliographic Instruction Librarian of the Year Award from ACRL’s Bibliographic Instruction Section, and he is a member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Kirk has authored numerous publications and given many presentations on the topics of library instruction, serials, and college libraries.

The results of the ACRL elections follow. For each position the elected candidate is given first, with the number of votes in parentheses.

Constitution change

Adoption of proposed constitution change: Yes: 2,324; No: 134.

Afro-American Studies Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair Elect: William C. Welbum (49); Robert Miller (17).

Secretary: Joyce E. Jelks (46); Diana L. Brice (18). Member-at-Large (two-year term; two to be elected): Michael C. Walker (39); Rochelle R. Ballard (37); Carol A. Rudisell (30).

Anthropology and Sociology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Kathryn L. Creeley (114); write-in (3).

Member-at-Large (two-year term): J. Christina Smith (79); Mary M. Koenig-Loring (46).

Arts Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Madeleine M. Nichols (98); Sandra T. Mooney (74).

Asian and African Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Katharine K. Elsässer (90); write-in (3).

Member-at-Large (two-year term): Donald Clay Johnson (61); Brenda E. Bickett (44).

Bibliographic Instruction Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Lori L. Arp (497); Barbara A. MacAdam (463).

Secretary: Beth S. Woodard (649); Craig A. Mulder (283).

Member-at-Large (three-year term): Margaret R. Wells (470); Mary J. Petrowski (442).

College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Barbara J. Brown (301); Rebecca A. Wilson (213).

Secretary: Michael J. LaCroix (296); LeRoy S. Strohl III (184).

Member-at-Large (two-year term): Pamela Snelson (244)*; Allison L. Gould (244).

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Margaret “Peggy” A. Holleman (160); Lenora C. Lockett (64);

Secretary: Susan Anderson (109); Cary Sowell (107).

Educational and Behavioral Sciences Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Judith Segal (212); Charles B. Thurston (141).

Extended Campus Library Services Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Lynn B. LaBrake (62); Thomas E. Abbott (53).

Member-at-Large (two-year term): Carol M. Moulden (71); Virginia S. Randolph (43).

Law and Political Sciences Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Charles D. Spomick (151); write-in (2).

Member-at-Large (two-year term): Catherine Doyle (153); write-in (1).

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:JackieM. Dooley (220); Jennifer B. Lee (216).

Member-at-Large (three-year term): Charles B. McNamara (371); write-in (9).

Science and Technology Section

Adoption of Proposed Bylaws Change: Yes: 352; No: 13.

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Janet S. Fore (259); Helen E. Gbala (128).

Secretary: Janet Chisman (249); Barbara J. DeFelice (146).

Slavic and East European Section

Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect: Leena Siegelbaum (55); write-in (1).

Member-at-Large: Tatiana Goemer Barr (51); Ruth Wallach (11).

University Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Noreen S. Alldredge (988); John W. Collins III (552). Member-at-Large (three-year term): Kent H.

Hendrickson(830); Sarah E. How (678). Member-at-Large (three-year term): Beverlee

A. French(864); Hiram L. Davis (684).

Western European Specialist Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: James Henry Spohrer (146); Richard Hacken (49).

Secretary: Thomas M. Izbicki (105); Charles G. Spetland (82).

Member-at-Large: Craig S. Likness (102); Catharine M. E. Halls (88).

Womens Studies Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Betty Glass (216); write- in (4).

Secretary: Kristine J. Anderson (148); Nancy M. Stanley (78).

Member-at-Large: RitaM. Pellen (145); Mila C. Su (82).

*Determined by lot. ■