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ACRL leadership opportunities: Your chance to get involved

Your chance to get involved

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Now is a good time to increase your involvement in ACRL by volunteering to serve on a division or section committee. Vice-president Betsy Wilson invites all ACRL members to contact the Appointments Committee about serving on one of ACRL’s 19 committees for next year. Members may also contact one of the section vice-chairs regarding service on one of the many section committees.

Committee members help shape the organization by implementing its strategic plan (available at http://www.ala.org/acrl/ stratpla.html), reshaping the association, and influencing the direction of academic and research librarianship.

You benefit by volunteering

Volunteers not only give to the association, they get back from the association:

• Build ties with academic and research librarians around the country.

• Enhance your leadership abilities through consensus building and persuasion. • Share your expertise with colleagues.

• Gain additional expertise—learn more about a new area of academic librarianship or pick up new ideas for your current area.

Appointments: The process

Appointments are made at both the section and division levels. The ACRL vice president is responsible for the committee appointments at the division level for the year he or she serves as president. Likewise, section vice chairs are responsible for committee appointments in their respective sections the year they serve as chair. Committee slates are usually completed shortly after the Midwinter Meeting during the year in which the individual serves as president-elect or chair-elect. The ACRL Appointments Committee assists the president-elect in this process in an advisory capacity.

Factors influencing appointment

Although the emphasis in the appointment may vary from year to year according to the prerogatives of the president-elect and section chairs, the same factors are considered. They include:

• Evidence of potential committee member’s interest.Have you attended the meetings and introduced yourself to the chair? Do you have previous experience that relates to the work of the committee? Have you indicated your interest on the volunteer form?

• Demographics and composition of committee.A balance is sought with respect to type of library (community college, college, or university), geographic representation, ethnic diversity, and gender.

• The recommendation of the current committee chair.Current committee chairs are asked to suggest potential members. Although all of these factors are considered, the final appointments are the prerogative of the ACRL president-elect and the section chair-elects.

How to apply

1) Select the committees that interest you.The ALA Handbook of Organization lists all of ACRL’s committees and their charges. (Ed. note: The Handbook is published as a special issue of American Libraries and will automatically be mailed to all ALA members in mid-November.) Attend the committee’s meetings at the Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference to help you decide if those are the activities that interest you.

Barbara Baxter Jenkins (ACRL Board member) and Pamela Moffet Padley are both working on ACRL’s 10th National Conference in Denver.

2) Introduce yourself.Talk with committee members. Express your interest to the committee chair. Explain how you might contribute to the work of the committee.

3) Submit a volunteer form.Complete the volunteer form included with this article. (Ed. note: This form is also available on ACRL’s homepage at http://www.ala.org/ acrl.html.)

Be sure to cover all of the items asked for in the background information section of the form. If you have attended committee meetings or programs, mention that. Fill out one form for ACRL division committees and a different form for each ACRL section you volunteer to serve on a committee for. Send the ACRL committee volunteer form to Randy B. Hensley at the address on the bottom of the volunteer form; send the section volunteer forms to the appropriate section chair-elects (see list of addresses below).

4) Volunteer again… and again.If you are not successful in being appointed one year, volunteer again the next year … and the next. Remember that a multitude of factors—number of appointments made, number of volunteers for each committee, number of volunteers from your type of library or your geographic area—determine the actual appointment, and these factors change from year to year.

ACRL section appointments

ACRL has 17 sections (listed below). You will find a description of their areas of responsibility in the ALA Handbook of Organization, 1999-2000. The chair-elect of a section appoints the chair and members of all section committees. Most of these appointments are made in the spring for terms beginning immediately after the ALA Annual Conference.

If you would like to be considered for appointment as a 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 listed below before December 6, 1999.

African-American Studies Librarians Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Dorothy A. Washington, Purdue University, Black Cultural Center Library. Preferred address: 3120 Eagles Way Drive, Apartment #1534, Lafayette, IN 47905; e-mail: dawashington@hfs.purdue.edu.

Anthropology and Sociology Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Cathy L. Moore-Jansen, Social Sciences Librarian, Wichita State University, Ablah Library. Preferred address: 343 North Parkwood, Wichita, KS 67208; e-mail: moorejan@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu.

Arts Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Lorelei A. Tanji, UCI Fine Arts Librarian, University of California-Irvine. Preferred address: P.O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557; e-mail: Itanji@uci.edu.

Asian, African and Middle Eastern Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Robin A. Paynter, Reference Librarian/Area Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1299; e-mail: rpaynter@oregon.uoregon.edu.

College Libraries Section.Vice-Chair/ Chair-elect: Michael Ann Zemon, Director of Libraries, Emerson College Library, 150 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116-1499; e-mail: ecl_maz@flo.org.

Community and Junior College Libraries Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Gregg T. Atkins, Library Director, College of San Mateo Library. Preferred address: 2763 Cheryl Ann Court, San Jose, CA 95124-1901; e-mail: atkins@smcccd.cc.ca.us.

Distance Learning Section.Vice-Chair/ Chair-elect: Carol Moulden, Coordinator of Off-campus Library Services, National Louis University, Wheeling Campus. Preferred address: 1935B Tanglewood Drive, Glenview, IL 60025; e-mail: cmou@wheelingl.nl.edu.

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Lorna M. Lueck, Reference Librarian, University of California Library. Preferred address: 235 Pacific Oaks Road, #208, Goleta, CA 93117-2935; e-mail: lueck@library.ucsb.edu.

English and American Literature Section.ViceChair/ Chair-elect: William A. Wortman, Miami University, Edgar W. Kind Library. Preferred address: 4879 Somerville Road, Oxford, OH 45056-9734; e-mail: wortmawa@muohio. edu.

Tom Kirk and Hannelore Rader, both past presidents of ACRL, continue to volunteer for the association.

Instruction Section.Chair: Karen Williams, Team Leader for the Social Science Team, University of Arizona. Preferred address: 2251 E. Kleindale Rd., Tucson, AZ 85719-2440; e-mail: kwilliam@bird.library. arizona.edu.

Law and Political Science Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Janice S. Lewis, Coordinator of Instructional Services, Joyner Library, East Carolina University. Preferred address: 3402 Durhaven Dr., Greenville, NC 27834; email: lewisja@mail.ecu.edu.

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Mark G. Dimunation, Chief, Rare Book & Special Collections, Library of Congress. Preferred address: 2100 Connecticut Ave NW, Apt 701, Washington, D.C. 20008-1747; e-mail: mdim@loc.gov.

Science and Technology Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Julie M. Hurd, Science Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago, University Library. Preferred address: 1457 Ridge Ave., Evanston, IL 60201-4148; e-mail: jhurd@uic.edu.

Slavic and East European Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Mieczslaw (Mischa) Buczkowski, Slavic Librarian, University of Oregon, Knight Library. Preferred address: 855 Wills Ct., Eugene, OR 97405-2315; e-mail: meb@ Oregon.uoregon.edu.

University Libraries Section.Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Elaine K. Didier, Dean, Kresge Library, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309-4484. Preferred address: 13060 Beacon Hill Dr., Plymouth, MI 48170-2903; email: didier@oakland. edu.

Western European Specialists Section.Vice-Chair/ Chair-elect: Jeffrey Garrett, Bibl., Western Langs & Lits, Northwestern University Library. Preferred address: 885 Pleasant Ave., Highland Park, IL 600354614; e-mail: jgarrett@nwu.edu.

Women’s Studies Section.Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect: Theresa A. Tobin, Head, Humanities & Dewey Librarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Preferred address: 104 Aldrich St., Roslindale, MA 02131-2750; e-mail: tat@mit.edu.

ACRL divisional committee appointments

ACRL has 20 standing committees to which appointments may be made for 1999-2000. A list appears on the volunteer form at the end of this article. You will find the committees listed with a description of their charges in the ALA Handbook of Organization. Appointments to ACRL standing committees are made in the spring for terms beginning immediately after the ALA Annual Conference. The Appointments Committee recommends to the president-elect of ACRL the names of members who might fill the vacancies. The president-elect makes the final appointments. If you want to be considered for an appointment to an ACRL committee, complete the form and return it to Randy B. Hensley at the address given on the form before December 6, 1999.

Editorial boards

ACRL has editorial boards for these six publications: Choice-, College & Research Libraries; College & Research Libraries News; New Publications; Publications in Librarianship; and Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship.

Appointments to editorial boards are made at the Midwinter Meeting for terms that begin immediately after the ALA Annual Conference. The editors recommend 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 early in the fall.

Choiceeditor: Irving Rockwood, Choice, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06457; e-mail: irockwood@ala-choice.org.

College & Research Librarieseditor: Donald E. Riggs, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314-7796; e-mail: driggs@ nsu.acast.nova.edu.

College & Research Libraries Newseditor: Mary Ellen Davis, C&RL News, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: medavis@ala.org.

New publications editor: Hugh Thompson, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: hthompson@ala.org.

Publications in Librarianshipeditor: John Budd, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, 217 Townsend Hall, Columbia, MO 65211; e-mail: libsjmb@showme. missouri.edu.

Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianshipeditors: Lisa M. Browar, Director, Indiana University, Lilly Library, Bloomington, IN 47405; lbrowar@indiana.edu; Marvin J. Taylor, Special Collections, New York University, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012; taylorm@is2.nyu.edu. ■