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Association of College & Research Libraries

And the winners are …

Here are the official 1994 ACRL election results

Susan K. Martin

Patricia Senn Breivik

Susan K. Martin,university librarian at Georgetown University, is the 57th president of ACRL. When asked about her plans, Martin said, “During 1994-95 ACRL will revise the five-year strategic plan it developed and followed during the 1980s to correspond with its members’ needs during the 1990s. There will also be a task force charged with examining certification and licensing of librarians to see whether such tools used on a voluntary basis might be helpful to the academic library community.”

As president, Martin will preside over the ACRL Board of Directors and the ACRL Executive Committee, chair the ACRL Conference Program Planning Committee for the 1995 Annual Conference in Chicago, and plan ACRL’s major program at the conference. She will also represent ACRL on the ALA Chicago Conference Program Planning Committee and on the ALA Planning and Budget Assembly, and she will represent ACRL and ALA in their relations with other organizations.

Martin has been active in ALA serving on the Council from 1988-92, on the Legislation Committee’s Copyright Subcommittee from 1981-87 and chairing it from 1984-85. She has also served on a number of committees of the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) including serving as LITA president. She has been active in many other professional organizations, serving as: a member of the Statistics Committee of the Association of Research Libraries, a member of the Executive Committee of the Research Libraries Group, and president of Universal Serials and Book Exchange (USBE). Martin was recognized as Simmons College Distinguished Alumni in 1977. She has a

B. A. from Tufts University, an MLS from Simmons College, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Patricia Senn Breivik,associate vice-president for information resources at Towson State University, Maryland, has been elected vice-president/president-elect of ACRL. When asked about her plans as ACRL president, Breivik replied, “I am gratified and excited by the election and by the ACRL planning session held at the Midwinter Meeting because they give a strong endorsement for ACRL to reach out to the higher education community and to play a leadership role in that larger environment. It is to this end that I will direct my efforts.”

Breivik’s career in librarianship has included positions as assistant dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the Pratt Institute; dean of library services at Sangamon State University; and director of the Auraria Library at the University of Colorado.

She has been very active in professional organizations. In ALA she has served on the Council, as ALA representative to and chair of the National Forum on Information Literacy, on the Library Instruction Round Table Executive Board, on the Advisory Committee for American Libraries, and on many other committees. In ACRL Breivik has served on the Professional Association Liaison Committee and the Continuing Education Committee, among others.

She has served on several state and regional library commissions, councils, and committees. She has chaired the American Association for Higher Education Information Literacy Action Committee, the American Council on Education Council of Fellows, and the National Forum on Information Literacy.

Breivik has received many honors including the American Association of School Librarians

Crystal Apple Award (1992), the G.K. Hall Library Literature Award (1990), and the Columbia University School of Library Service Distinguished Service Award (1989)- She is the author of Information Literacy: Revolution in the Library (1989) and Planning the Library Instruction Program (1982), and coedited, with Robert Wedgeworth, Libraries and the Search for Academic Excellence (1988).

The rest of the ACRL election results follow. The elected candidate is given first, with the number of votes received in parentheses.

ACRL

Vice-President/President-Elect: Patricia S. Breivik (1,169); Maureen D. Pastine (975).

Division Councilor: W. Lee Hisle (1,167); Paul E. Dumont (666).

Director-at-Large: Victoria A. Montavon (934); Marian C. Winner (814).

Director-at-Large: Mary Reichel (1,077); Patricia A. McCandless (472); Robert B. Ridinger (384).

Director-at-Large: JilIB. Fatzer (1,096); Carolyn L. Robison (691).

Director-at-Large: Bernard Fradkin (932); Derrie B. Roark (760).

Afro-American Studies Librarians Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Gladys Smiley Bell (41); Kathleen E. Bethel (19).

Secretary: Mary G. Wrighten (37); Brenda D. Sloan (20).

Member-at-Large: Gloria J. Mims (41); Grace M. Jackson-Brown (14).

Member-at-Large: Itibari M. Zulu (32); Alice Reviere Smith (30).

Anthropology and Sociology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: James W. Williams (98); write-in candidate (4).

Member-at-Large: Joan R. Berman (65); Carol Ritzen Kem (44).

ARTS Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Christine A. Whittington (90); Paula L. Epstein (46).

Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: James N. Gentner(6l); write-in candidate (3).

Member-at-Large (two elected): Zhijia Shen (48); Carol L. Jones (23).

Bibliographic Instruction Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Esther S. Grassian (401); Eugene A. Engeldinger (381).

Secretary: MaryJ. Petrowski (473); Madeline A. Copp (257).

Member-at-Large: Sara J. Penhale (429); Natalie C. Pelster (304).

Member-at-Large: Bee H. Gallegos (390); Monica G. Fusich (328).

College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Larry L. Hardesty (314); John G. Jaffe (98).

Secretary: Sue A. Burkholder (242); Paul Coleman (136).

Member-at-Large: Micheline E. Jedrey (204); Tara Lynn Fulton (173).

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Gretchen H. Neill (131); Cary L. Sowell (53).

Secretary: Wanda Johnston (127); Jay Clark (56).

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Patricia E. Libutti (227); write-in candidate (5).

Member-at-Large: Kimberly B. Kelley (152); Jill C. Althage (87).

Extended Campus Library Services Section

Adoption of Proposed Bylaws Change: Yes (129); No (3).

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Susan Potter (95);

Nancy L. Gaynor (41).

Member-at-Large: Robert P. Morrison (87); Sharon Hybki Kerr (43).

Law and Political Science Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Judy L. Solberg (86); Catherine F. Doyle (34).

Member-at-Large: William A. Orme (61); Brian B. Carpenter (56).

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Elizabeth L. Johnson (222); Mark G. Dimunation (153).

Member-at-Large: Richard W. Oram (188); Charlotte B. Brown (184).

Science and Technology Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Alison Scott Ricker (214); Judith A. Carter (122).

Secretary: Julie M. Hurd (229); Mara L. Sprain (110).

Slavic and East European Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Laszlo L. Kovacs (48); write-in candidate (4).

Member-at-Large: Bradley L. Schaffner (50); write-in candidate (2).

University Libraries Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: William J. Crowe (686); David W. Lewis (540).

Member-at-Large (two elected): Elaine Didier (465); Louise Sherby (274); James Cogswell (263); Tyrone Cannon (159).

Western European Specialists Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: MichaelP. Olson (101);

Thomas M. Izbicki (57).

Secretary: Gretchen E. Holten (95); Reinhart Sonnenburg (57).

Member-at-Large: Sem C. Sutter (69); Julie M. Still (50); Peter B. Allison (40).

Women’s Studies Section

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Grace M. Jackson-Brown (99); Rita M. Pellen (67).

Secretary: May M. Jafari (142); write-in candidate (2).

Member-at-Large: Kristin Ramsdell (95); Pauline D. Manaka (68). ■