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And the winners are … The official results of the 2001 ACRI elections

Helen H. Spalding

Mary Reichel

Mary Reichel,university librarian and Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor at Appalachian State University, is the 64th president of ACRL.

As president, Reichel will preside over the ACRL Board of Directors and ACRL Executive Committee, chair the ACRL Conference Program Planning for the 2002 Annual Conference, and plan ACRL’s major program at the conference. She will work with the ALA president and other division presidents representing ACRL both within and outside of ALA.

“It is an exciting time for ACRL and for all of us in academic libraries as we face incredible opportunities and challenges. For my focus in this upcoming year, I have chosen the idea of ‘ACRL: The Learning Community for Excellence in Academic Libraries.’

“ACRL is invaluable for growth and learning for librarians, and it is both the association’s and individual members’ responsibility to use ACRL for reaching excellence in our libraries.

“In very real terms, ACRL has helped me to improve as a librarian by the powerful sharing and learning that members foster whenever they are gathered in either formal or informal settings. ACRL as a learning community prepares academic librarians to deal with both overarching issues, such as the impact of technology and the rapid changes in higher education, as well as the more specific issues that we face in daily responsibilities.

“Within the learning community theme, my presidential goals will center on the importance of information literacy and critical thinking; recruitment to our profession; broadened member participation, as well as valuing diversity among members; and support of ACRL’s strong legislative and policy focus, especially in terms of the enormous changes in scholarly communication and intellectual property issues. These goals are aligned with ACRL’s strategic plan, which was developed with broad participation and serious thinking about the future.

“ACRL succeeds because of its members and their willingness to devote their professional and personal time to ACRL. My appreciation goes out to all of you who have done so much for the association and those of you who have volunteered to serve on committees and in other leadership roles. During my vice-presidential year, I have enjoyed getting to know more of you, being involved in the appointment process, and attending state and regional meetings.

“Thank you again for this opportunity to serve as President-Elect and President of ACRL. I look forward to this upcoming year with great anticipation, especially knowing that I will benefit from the vision and hard work of past presidents and Boards who have so effectively served ACRL.”

From 1986 to 1992 Reichel was assistant university librarian for Central Seivices at University of Arizona; from 1980 to 1986 she was head of the reference department in the Pullen Library at Georgia State University; and from 1976 to 1980 she was senior reference librarian in the Undergraduate Library at SUNY, Buffalo.

Reichel has been active in ALA, serving on the AAP Joint Committee on Publishing (1997- 99) and ALA Council (1990-94).

Over the years she has also served in many capacities in ACRL, including the Board of Directors (1994-98); Planning Committee (1993-95); President’s Program Planning Committee for 1991 chair (1989-91); Instruction Section, vice-chair/chair/past-chair (1984-87); Appointments and Nominations Committee chair (1984-85).

She has also served on several state and regional library associations, including SOLINET Board of Directors (1994-98), secretary (1995-96), and chair 0996-97), and Arizona State Library Association Conference Program Committee (1990-91).

She has been a member of Phi Delta Kappa since 1993-

In 1999, Reichel was honored with the ACRL Instruction Section’s Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian of the Year Award.

Her publications include “Publish or Perish: A Dilemma for Academic Librarians?,” coauthored with W. Bede Mitchell (College & Research Libraries, May 1999); “Performance Evaluation: A Deadly Disease?” (Journal of Academic Librarianship, July 1994), coauthored with Rao Aluri; and Conceptional Frameworks for Bibliographic Education (1987), coedited with Mary Ann Ramey.

Helen H. Spalding,associate director of libraries at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), has been elected vice-president/ president-elect of ACRL.

“What a special privilege to look foiward to providing leadership with talented colleagues to an organization that is playing such a key role in providing professional development for academic librarians, and in improving teaching and learning, and the creation, preservation, and transfer of knowledge. The exceptional skill and creativity of the ACRL members will guarantee continuing success in advancing equitable and open access to information, intellectual freedom, conservation and preseivation of knowledge, scholarly communication and research, professional development, and education.

“Within ACRL and the institutions where they work, our members are facing changing environments, institutional expectations, and library user needs. We can build on a strong history of partnering with others in higher education and in other types of libraries to address the new realities we face.

ACRL is invaluable for growth and learning for librarians, and it is both the association's and individual members' responsibility to use ACRL for reaching excellence in our libraries.

—Mary Reichel

“I hope we can especially enhance greater visibility of the value of academic librarians to the achievement of the goals of our library users and partners, provide academic librarian mentors for Spectrum Scholars, participate in changing and improving library school education and recruitment to the profession, and examine how ACRL and ALA could be strengthened to be better positioned for a different future.”

Spalding has been associate director of libraries at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) since 1985- Her previous positions included UMKC head of Technical Services (1979-85), head of Serials Records, and head of Serials Cataloging at Iowa State University (1974-79).

Within ACRL, Spalding has served on the Board of Directors Executive Committee (1994-96, 1997-01); Budget and Finance Committee (1986-91, 1992-96), chair (1994- 96); Colleagues Committee chair (1992-93); Seventh National Conference Contributed Papers Subcommittee (1993-95); Appointments Committee chair (1996-97); ACRL Councilor (1997-01); and the Tenth National Conference Volunteer Committee (2000-01).

In addition to serving on ALA Council as the ACRL Councilor, Spalding’s seivice in ALA includes membership on the Budget Analysis and Review Committee (BARC) (1998-02); Library Education Assembly (1986-87); Search Committee for Choice Editor/Publisher (1994— 95); LAMA LOMS Planning and Evaluation of Library Seivices Committee (1982-86); LAMA PAS Staff Development Committee (1982-86); chair, editor of Z/L1L4 Newsletter “Staff Development” column (1984-86); LAMA Special Conferences and Programs Committee (1988- 92); LITA Education Committee (1983-87) (Chair, 1985-87); and LITA/CLSI Scholarship Jury (1984-85, 1986-87). Other professional service includes Missouri Library Association committees; OCLC Users Council Vice President (1982-83); Editorial Boards of Journal of Academic Librarianship (1986-99), and Portal: Libraries and the Academy (1999— present).

We can build on a strong history of partnering with others in higher education and in other types of libraries to address the new realities we face.

—Helen H. Spalding

Spalding was selected a Council of Library Resources Academic Library Management Intern (1983-84) and a UCLA Senior Fellow (1989). Her publications have focused on professional development and implementation of automated systems, including: “A Computer-Produced Serials Book Catalog with Automatically Generated Indexes,” LRTS, 1980; “A Queueing Study of Public Catalog Use,” C&RL, 1981 (coauthored); “Involving Faculty and Students in the Selection of a Catalog Alternative,” JAL, 1983 (coauthored); “Recent Developments in Library Technical Services, and the Implications for Access to Scholarly Information,” Issues in Access to Scholarly Information, 1985; “Behind Bars in the Library: Northwestern University Library’s Bar Code Project,” ITAL, 1987 (coauthored); “The Developing Reference Librarian: An Administrative Perspective,” The Ref Libn, 1990; “Only Change is Constant: Three Librarians Consider What Their Jobs Will Be Like in Five Years,” C&RL News, 1998 (coauthored).

ACRL

Vice President/President-Elect: Elaine K. Didier (1,002); Helen H. Spalding (1,101).

ACRL Board

Member-at-Large (3-year term): Carolyn A.

Sheehy (966); Pamela Snelson (1,000).

Member-at-Large (4-year term, 1 to be elected): Patricia A. Kreitz (728); Paula C. Murphy (568); Alison Scott Ricker (614).

Division councilor: Debra L. Gilchrist (925); Patricia Ann Wand (1077).

African-American Studies Librarians (AFAS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Raquel V. Cogell (32); Bennie P. Robinson (19).

Secretary (1-year term): Lisa Pillow (45); Write-In Candidate (1).

Member-at-Large (1-year term): Grace Jackson-Brown (36); Itibari M. Zulu (16).

Anthropology and Sociology (ANSS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Royce D. Kurtz (53); William J. Wheeler (45).

Secretaiy (2-year term): Wade R. Kotter (41); Katharine A. Whitson (57).

Member-at-Large: Erin C. Daix (56); Stephen O. Fowlkes (42).

Arts

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Henry J. DuBois (39); Ann M. Lindell (69).

Secretaiy (2-year term): Sylvia Y. Curtis (54); Eric A. Kidwell (51).

Asian, African, and Middle Eastern (AAMES)

Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Jung-Ran Park (25); R.N. Sharma (20).

Secretary (1-year term): Hideyuki Morimoto (37); Write-In Candidate (0).

Member-at-Large (1-year term): Sarah S. Elman (16); Binh P. Le (26).

College Libraries (CLS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Mark E. Cain (213); Charles M. Getchell Jr. (195).

Secretary (1-year term): Alice H. Bahr (241); Dena M. Hutto (148).

Member-at-Large (2-year term): Lisabeth A. Chabot (243); Lewis R. Miller (153).

Community and Junior College Libraries (CJCLS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Cynthia K. Steinhoff (103); A. Jules Tate (90).

Secretary (1-year term): Marianne C. Rough (96); Lisa A. Beinhoff (95).

Distance Learning (DLS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Maryhelen Jones (174); Barbara J. Wittkopf (103).

Secretary/Archivist (2-year terra): Erin K. McCaffrey (107); Rebecca E. Sedam (148).

Member-at-Large (2-year term): Marissa R. Cachero (138); Marie A. Kascus (119).

Education and Behavioral Science (EBSS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-elect: Katherine Ann Corby (109); Allison G. Kaplan (53).

Secretary (2-year term): Jeannie Kamerman (52); Judith A. Walker (104).

Member-at-Large (2-year term): Jennie Ver Steeg (144); Write-In Candidate (4).

Instruction (IS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Craig Gibson (261); Trudi E. Jacobson (456).

Secretary (1-year term): Nancy Hodge Dewald (4l6); Ross T. LaBaugh (269). Member-at-Large (3-year term): Jeffrey S. Bullington (318); Susan Miller (367).

Law and Political Science (LPSS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Madison Mosley (37); Barbara P. Norelli (78).

Secretary (2-year term): Thomas Louis Mann (50); Christine Angolia (6l).

Member-at-Large (2-year term): Kathleen C. Fountain (68); Dorothy K. Marcinko (43).

Literatures in English Section Literature (LES)

Adoption of Proposed Bylaws: Yes (79) ADOPTED; No (1).

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Julie M. Still (34); Michaelyn Burnette (49).

Secretary (1-year term): Steven R. Harris (44); Susanna Van Sant (35).

Member-at-Large (1-year term): Kathleen A. Johnson (30); Nancy J. Kushigian (50).

Rare Books and Manuscripts (RBMS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Juliet McLaren (137); Daniel J. Slive (159)

Secretary (2-year term): Cynthia A. Burgess (259); Write-In Candidate (4).

Member-at-Large (3-year term): Katherine Reagan (156); Diane Shaw (137).

Science and Technology (STS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: William M. Baer (109);

Barton M. Lessin (188).Secretary/Member-at-Large (2-yearterm): Nancy

J. Butkovich(184); Teresa U. Berry (111).

Slavic and East European (SEES)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Nadia Zilper (17);

Jared S. Ingersoll (26).

Member-at-Large (1-year term): Diana Greene

(15); Marek Sroka(28).

University Libraries (ULS)

Adoption of Proposed Bylaws (Article IV) No (28); Yes (911) ADOPTED

Adoption of Proposed Bylaws (Article V) No (32); Yes (846) ADOPTED Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Frank Andraia (398);

Louise S. Sherby (507).

Secretary (2-year term): Mary H. Munroe

(358); Barbara E. Kemp (470).

Member-at-Large (3-year term, 2 to be elected): Betsy Baker (535); Phelix B. Hanible (297); Doris Ann Sweet (381); Linda K. Terhaar (372).

Western European Specialists (WESS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Gordon B. Anderson (57); Beau David Case (52).

Secretary (1-year term): Bruce W. Swann (39); Sarah G. Wenzel (68).

Member-at-Large (1-year term): Richard R. Ring (37); Sam Dunlap (71).

Women's Studies (WSS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Dolores Fidishun (100); Write-In Candidate (2).

Secretary (1-year term): Sue A. McFadden (99); Write-In Candidate (0).

Member-at-Large (1-year term): Julie Ann Nachman (49); Brita Servaes (55).