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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 maybe 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 1989-90.

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 Pat Rom, chair of the Appointments and Nominations Committee, before December 15,1989.

ACRL section officers

ACRL has 15 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, 1989.

ACRL COMMITTEE VOLUNTEER FORM

If you are interested in serving on an ACRL standing committee, please complete this form and mail it before December 15,1989, to:

Pat Rom, Director of Library Services, Andrews Library. Wooster. OH 44691.

If you would like to serve on an ACRL section committee, send this form to the appropriate section vice-chair/chair-elect before the ALA Midwinter Meeting.

You must be a member of the section to be considered for appointment.

Editorial boards

ACRL has six editorial boards:

• the Choice Editorial Board;

• the College & Research Libraries Editorial Board;

• the College & Research Libraries News Editorial Board;

• the Non-Serial Publications 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

Afro-American Studies Librarian Section

Chair: Clarence E. Chisholm, Circulation Librarian, Ohio University, Vernon R. Alden Library, Park Place, Athens, OH 45701-2878. Anthropology and Sociology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Cheryl C. Kugler, Head of Monograph Services, Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, 419 21st Ave. South, Nashville, TN 37240-0007.

Art Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Joan D. Kunselman, Head, Fine Arts Libraries, 21534 URL, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1575.

Asian and African Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Joanne M. Zellers, Area Specialist/African Section, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540.

Bibliographic Instruction Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Betsy Wilson, Assistant Director for Undergraduate and Resource Sharing Libraries, Undergraduate Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.

College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Michael D. Kathman, Director of Libraries, Media and Academic Computing, Alcuin Library, St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN 56321.

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Marilyn M. McDonald, Dean of Learning Resources, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022.

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Tara Lynn Fulton, Head of Reference, Cudahy Library, Loyola University of Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626.

Law and Political Science Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Marta A. Lange, Head of Reference, North Carolina State University Libraries, Box 7111, Raleigh, NC 27695-7111. Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Daniel H. Traister, Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206.

Science and Technology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Colleen J. Power, Coordinator of Regional Services and Bibliographic Instruction, Meriam Library, California State University, Chico, CA 95929-0295.

Slavic and East European Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Nina Shapiro, Leader, Slavic/GermanicCatalogingTeam, Princeton University, Firestone Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08540.

Western European Specialists Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: EvaSartori, Bibliographer for Modern Languages, University of Nebraska, 217N Love Library, Lincoln, NE 68588- 0410.

Womens Studies Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Patricia A. Kreitz, Head, General Reference Services, 208 Main Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94710.

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, IL60611.

Non-Serial Publications Editor: Mary Ellen Davis, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611.

Publications in LibrarianshipEditor: Jonathan A. Lindsey, Coordinatorof Library Affairs, Baylor University, Waco, TX76798.

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