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Vice-president/President-elect

Elaine K. Didierhas been dean of the University Library at Oakland University since 1999 . She was interim director of Academic Outreach (1996-99) and adjunct associate professor (1993-99) of the School of Information; associate dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies (1993- 96); director of Information Resources and director of the Kresge Business Administration Library (1985-93), School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan.

Didier has been an active member of ACRL, and is the current chair of the University Libraries Section (ULS). She is the current secretary of the ACRL Sections Council (2000-01). She has served on several ULS committees, chairing the Conference Program Planning Committee (1998-2000) and the Leadership Development Committee (1996- 98).

She has been a member of ALA since 1976.

Didier has also been active at the state and regional level, serving on the Board of Directors of the Michigan Association for Media in Education (1976-85), and on the Editorial Board of Media Spectrum (1977-80). She is president-elect of the Michigan Library Association (2000-03) and has served on its Board of Directors (1980-82) and its Leadership Academy Planning Committee (1987-90).

Didier’s other organizational affiliations include the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, for which she served as a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee (1985-89), as president (1987-88), and as president of its Division of Educational Media Management (1982); and the ECT Foundation, for which she served on the Board of Trustees (1989-94). Didier was also a member of the University Continuing Education Association Commission on Learning and Information Technologies (1998-99). She served on the Board of Directors of the Ann Arbor Rotary Club (1990-95) and was its president (1993— 94).

Elaine K. Didier

Helen H. Spalding

In 1990, Didier was awarded the Association for Educational Communications and Technology Distinguished Service Award.

Her publications include Distance Learning Comes of Age, foreword to The Oryx Guide to Distance Learning, 1997; New Roles for a New Century: Changing the Way We Do Business, (Media Spectrum, 1997); and A Synergistic Approach to Defining a New Information Environment, (Academic Computing, 1990).

Didier earned her B.A., A.M.L.S., and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.

Helen H. Spaldinghas been associate director of Libraries at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, since 1985. She was head of Technical Services at the University of Missouri, Kansas City (1979-85), and head of both Serials Records and Serials Cataloging at Iowa State University (1974-79).

Spalding has been an active member of ACRL, and is currently ACRL Division Councilor and a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee (1997-2001). She was chair of the Budget and Finance Committee (1994-96), the Colleagues Committee (1992-93), and the Appointments Committee (1996-97). She was a member of the Seventh National Conference Contributed Papers Subcommittee (1993-95) and is a member of the Tenth National Conference Volunteer Committee (2000-01).

Her service to ALA includes ALA Council (1997-2001) and Budget Analysis on Review Committee [BARC] (1998-2002). She was Library Education Assembly Representative (1985-87), a member of the Development Office Advisory Committee’s Fund Raising Task Force (1992-93), and a member of the Search Committee for CHOICE Editor/Publisher (1994-95). She has served on several committees in LAMA and LITA.

Spalding has also been active at the state and regional level, serving the Missouri Library Association as Membership Committee chair (1981-82), Constitution and Bylaws Committee chair (1984-85), and Budget and Finance Committee member (1985-86). She was a member of the Missouri Library Network Corporation’s Ad Hoc Pricing Committee (1983).

Spalding’s other organizational affiliations include the OCLC ad hoc Pricing Committee (1982-83). She was vice-presi- dent/Finance Committee chair and a member of the Executive Committee of the OCLC Users Council (1982-83). She has served on the Boards of Editors of Journal of Academic Librarianship (1986-99) and Portal: Libraries and the Academy (1999-present).

Spalding has been a member of Phi Beta Kappa since 1972. In 1989 she was a UCLA Senior Fellow.

Her publications include “The Developing Reference Librarian: An Administrative Perspective,” (Reference Librarian, 1990); “Recent Developments in Library Technical Services and the Implications for Access to Scholarly Information,” (Issues in Access to Scholarly Information, 1985), and “A Com- puter-Produced Serials Book Catalog with Automatically Generated Indexes,” (Library Resources & Technical Services, 1980).

Spalding earned her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Iowa, and her M.P.A. at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

ACRL Board of Directors

Director-at-large: Pamela Snelson,college librarian, Franklin & Marshall College; Carolyn Sheehy, Clare and Lucy Oesterle director of Library Services, North Central College.

Director-at-large: Patricia Kreitz,director of Technical Information Services, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University; Paula C. Murphy, Research Services librarian, Chicago Historical Society; Alison Scott Ricker, science librarian, Oberlin College. Division Councilor: Debra Gilchrist, director, Library/Media Services, Pierce College; Patricia Wand, university librarian, American University.

African American Studies Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Raquel Cogell,reference librarian and selector for African American Studies, Emory University; Bennie Robinson, reference librarian/Pan African Studies bibliographer, University of Akron. Secretary: Lisa Pillow, head, Black Studies Library, Ohio State University. Member-at-large: GraceJackson-Brown, African American Studies bibliographer and head of the African American Cultural Center Library, Indiana University; Itibari M. Zulu, head librarian, UCLA Center for African American Studies Library.

Anthropology and Sociology Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: William J. Wheeler,coordinator of Collection Development, Yale University Social Science Libraries & Information Services, librarian for Anthropology, Sociology, and International Affairs; Royce Kurtz, head of Informational and Instructional Services, University of Mississippi, Social Sciences reference librarian and bibliographer. Secretary: Wade Kotter, Social Sciences librarian, Weber State University; Katharine A. Whitson, head, Access Services/Reference librarian, University of Washington Bothell. Member-at-large: Erin Daix, senior assistant librarian, Reference Department, University of Delaware Library; Stephen O. Fowlkes, reference librarian and bibliographer for Sociology, Social Work, and General Reference, Howard-Tilton Library, Tulane University.

Arts Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Henry Dubois,associate dean, University Library, California State University, Long Beach; Ann Lindell, acting head librarian, Architecture and Fine Arts Library, University of Florida.

Secretary: Sylvia Curtis,Black Studies, Dance, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies librarian; co-coordinator Area, Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection Group, University of California, Santa Barbara; Eric Kidwell, director of the library, Huntingdon College, and director of the Liberal Arts Symposium.

Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Jung-Ran Park,assistant cataloging librarian, Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State University; R. N. Sharma, director of Library Services, West Virginia State College.

Secretary: Hideyuki Morimoto,Japanese cata- loger, University of California, Berkeley. Member-at-large: Sarah Elman, head, Cataloging/Public Services Divisions, East Asian Library, UCLA; Binh P. Le, associate librarian, Pennsylvania State University, Abington College.

College Libraries Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Mark Cain,executive director of Information Services and Support, College of Mount St. Joseph; Charles Getchell, director of the Arnold Bernhard Library, Quinnipiac University.

Secretary: Alice Bahr,director of the library, Spring Hill College; Dena Hutto, Documents/ Social Sciences librarian, Reed College. Member-at-large: Lisabeth Chabot, college librarian, Mary Baldwin College; Lewis Miller, dean of libraries, Butler University.

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Cynthia Steinhoff,acting director of the library, Andrew G. Truxal Library, Anne Arundel Community College; Albert “Jules” Tate, director of Library Services, Nunez Community College. Secretary: Marianne Rough, professor, librar- ian-Collection Development, Prince George’s Community College; Lisa Beinhoff head of the DuBois Campus Library, Penn State University.

Distance Learning Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: MaryhelenJones,director of Library Services for Distance Education, University of Houston System Libraries; Barbara Wittkopf head, Central Library Information Center, Louisiana State University Libraries.

Secretary/Archivist: Erin McCaffrey,reference/instruction librarian, DePaul University Libraries; Rebecca Sedam, Lewis Library instruction coordinator and Economics bibliographer, Loyola University Chicago. Member-at-large: Marissa R. Cachero, off- campus librarian, Central Michigan University, off-campus Library Services; Marie A. Kascus, director of Library Services, Newbury College.

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Katherine Ann Corby,reference librarian/bibliographer for Education and Psychology, Michigan State University Libraries; Allison G. Kaplan, cata- loger, Education Resource Center and coordinator, School Library Media Specialist Program, School of Education, University of Delaware.

Secretary: Jeannie Kamerman,director of the Curriculum Materials Library, University of West Florida; Judith A. Walker, Curriculum Materials/Education librarian, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Member-at-large: Douglas L. Cook,associate professor and Reference and Instruction librarian, Shippensburg University; Jennie Ver Steeg, Social Sciences/College of Education Liaison librarian, Northern Illinois University.

Instruction Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Craig Gibson,associate university librarian, Public Services, George Mason University; Trudi E. Jacobson, coordinator of User Education Programs, University at Albany.

Secretary: Nancy Hodge Dewald,reference librarian, Penn State Berks Campus; Ross T. LaBaugh, coordinator of Library Instruction, California State University, Fresno.

Member-at-large: Jeffrey Bullington,reference librarian and bibliographer, University of Kansas Libraries; Susan Miller, associate director of the Arnold Bernhard Library, Quinnipiac University.

Law and Political Science Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Madison Mosley,associate director, Stetson University College of Law Library; Barbara P. Norelli, Social Sciences/Government Documents librarian, Scribner Library, Skidmore College.

Secretary: Thomas Louis Mann,bibliographer, Northwestern University Library; Christine Angolia, Government Documents Reference Librarian, University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Member-at-large: Kathleen C. Fountain,Political Science librarian, California State University, Chico; Dorothy K. Marcinko, reference librarian, Auburn University Library.

Literatures in English Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Julie M. Still,reference librarian, Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers University, Camden; Michaelyn Burnette, Humanities librarian, University of California, Berkeley.

Secretary: Steven R. Harris,English Literature librarian, University of Tennessee; Susanna Van Sant, Collection Management librarian for Literature and Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park.

Member-at-large: Kathleen A. Johnson,Central Reference Services, University Libraries, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Nancy J. Kushigian, English, Theater, Women’s Studies librarian, Shields Library, University of California, Davis.

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Juliet McLaren,senior bibliographer, Early Serials Project, English Short-title Catalog, University of California, Riverside; Daniel J. Slive, Rare Books librarian, Department of Special Collections, UCLA.

Secretary: Cynthia A. Burgess,librarian/cura- tor of Books and Printed Materials, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University.

Member-at-large: Katherine Reagan,curator of Rare Books, Cornell University Library; Diαne Shαw, Special Collections cataloger, Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Science and Technology Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: William M. Baer,Engineering librarian, Brigham Young University; Barton M. Lessin, assistant dean and director of the Science and Engineering Library, Wayne State University.

Secretary/Member-at-large: Nancy J. Butkovich,head, Physical Sciences Library, Pennsylvania State University; Teresa U. Berry, Science librarian, University of Tennessee Libraries.

Slavic and East European Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Nadia Zilper,Slavic and East European Resources bibliographer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Jared Ingersoll, Slavic and East European librarian, Columbia University.

Member-at-large: Diana Greene,Slavic librarian, New York University; Marek Sroka, Slavic cataloger, University of Illinois Slavic and East European Library.

University Libraries Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Frank D’Andraia,dean of Library Services, University of Montana, Missoula; Louise Sherby, associate dean and chief librarian, Hunter College. Secretary: Mary H. Munroe, associate dean, Collections and Technical Services, Northern Illinois University; Barbara Kemp, assistant dean for Public Services, University of Houston.

Member-at-large: Betsy Baker,head of Reference, Northwestern University; Phelix B. Hanible, associate director for Research and Instructional Services, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Doris Ann Sweet, assistant director for Access Services, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University; Linda TerHaar, head, Shapiro Undergraduate Library, University of Michigan.

Western European Studies Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Gordon Anderson,European Studies bibliographer and reference librarian, University of Kansas Libraries; Beau David Case, head, Linguistics and West European Languages Library, Ohio State University.

Secretary: Bruce W. Swann,Classics librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sarah G. Wenzel, reference coordinator, Humanities Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Member-at-large: Sam Dunlap,European Studies librarian and Collections coordinator for the Social Sciences and Humanities Library, University of California, San Diego; Richard Ring, bibliographer for History, French and Italian, and Classics, University of Kansas.

Women's Studies Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Dolores Fidishun,head librarian, Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies.

Secretary: Sue A. McFadden,assistant librarian for Public Services, Indiana University.

Member-at-large: Julie N. Miliman,assistant head of Acquisitions, Electronic Resources librarian, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University; Brita Servaes, librarian for Women’s Studies and Anthropology, New York University.