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ACRL seeks nominees for office

The Association needs your help to achieve its goals and objectives.

Would you like to serve on the ACRL Board of Directors as member-at-large or seek office in an ACRL section? Would you like to nominate anyone else for such a position? If the answer is yes, here is what you need to do.

ACRL Board of Directors

The College Libraries Section and Community and Junior College Libraries Section will be nominating candidates for member-at-large to the ACRL Board of Directors. The election for these offices will be held in the spring of 1989. The winners will hold office beginning in the summer of 1988. If you wish to be considered for nomination to either office or if you would like to submit names for consideration, contact the chair of the Nominating Committee of either CLS or CJCLS (their names are given below) prior to the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans.

ACRL section officers

Candidates for vice-chair/chair-elect of ACRL sections are selected by the Nominating Committees of each section. If you would like to nominate someone or be nominated for vice-chair/chair-elect of an ACRL section, contact the chair of the Nominating Committee for the appropriate section prior to ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. Other section offices, including secretary and member- at-large, may also be under consideration for this term of office, which would begin in the summer of 1989.

Section Nominating Committee chairs

Anthropology and Sociology Section

Kathryn Creely, Catalog Dep’t, Central Library, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.

Art Section

Allen Cohen, Head, Cataloging Department, University of California Library, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

Asian and African Section

Dona S. Straley, Middle East Librarian, 308 Main Library, Ohio State University, 1858 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, OH 43210.

Bibliographic Instruction Section

Maureen Pastine, Director of Libraries, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164- 5610.

College Libraries Section

Steven Pandolfo, College Librarian, Mills College, 5000 Mac Arthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94613.

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Joseph F. Lindenfeld, Head Librarian, Shelby State Community College, P.O. Box 40568, Memphis, TN 38174-0568.

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section

Jean T. Thompson, Assistant Director for Reference and Information Services, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706.

Law and Political Science Section

Stephen Atkins, Political Science Subject Specialist, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801.

Bare Books and Manuscripts Section

Donald Farren, Associate Director of Libraries for Special Collections, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

Science and Technology Section

Sheila Grant Johnson, Head, Biological Sciences Reference, 102 Library, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74074-0375.

Slavic and East European Section

Stephen D. Corrsin, Acting Associate Librarian for Technical Services, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, NY 11210.

University Libraries Section

Shelley E. Phipps, Acting University Librarian, Main Library A347, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.

Western European Specialists Section

Anna H. Perrault, Humanities Bibliographer, Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, LA 70803.

Women’s Studies Section

Cynthia Fugate, University of Washington Libraries, FM 25, Seattle, WA 98195.

ACRL staff profile

Cathleen Bourdon, deputy executive director, joined ACRL in 1983 after working for nine years as a college librarian. As the deputy, Cathleen is responsible for the direc- tion of the entire ACRL operation in the absence of the executive direc- tor. “My former college colleagues were amused by my new title and gave me a gold deputy’s star to wear my first day on the job.”

Cathleen serves as the liaison to the sections, discussion groups, and many of the commit- tees. She provides coor- dination and support to over 150 committees by keeping them informed of policies, procedures, and deadlines. “Each year I update the ACBL Guide to Policies and Procedures manual and that helps me keep all of the policies straight in my mind. I see my role as helping the committee chairs work effectively in the ACRL bureaucracy.”

Cathleen Bourdon

Every three years Cathleen serves as the coordinator of the ACRL National Conference. The Fifth National Conference will be held April 5-8, 1989, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The theme of the conference will be “Building on the First Century” to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the College Library Section in the American Library Association. “I think this national conference will be outstanding,” she said. “The conference committee is planning some exciting new programs and social events.” The conference co-chairs are Martha Alexander Bowman and Evan Farber.

Cathleen also works with the ACRL Board of Directors by writing agendas, Board documents, and reports. She is responsible for the daily management of the ACRL office and works closely with the office manager. Cathleen just completed her term as president of the ALA Staff Association. “Serving in a volunteer position again has given me a better appreciation of the time pressures our members face. It’s not easy to hold down a fulltime, demanding job and serve as an officer of an association.”

Before coming to ACRL, Cathleen was the library director at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was active in local and state library associations and served as president of LCOMM (Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee) and as secretary of the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians. Cathleen also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia from 1969 to 1972 and traveled extensively throughout Africa and Europe.

When not working on ACRL jobs, Cathleen pursues such hobbies as watching 1940s movies, cross-stitch embroidery, and “obsessive” novel reading. “When John D. MacDonald died last year,” she lamented, “I read all twenty-one of his Travis McGee mysteries in two weeks. That was hard to do and still be attentive to my daughter Jill, age 10, and my son Jeffrey, age 5.”

ACE bibliographies prepared by Gelman librarians

Bibliographies for each concurrent session of the American Council on Education’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on January 17-20, 1988, were provided by librarians at George Washington University’s Gelman Library. The American Library Association is a constituent member of the American Council on Education, and ACRL appoints a representative who serves a two-year term.

Pictured below is the current representative, Sharon J. Rogers (left), university librarian at Gelman Library. The bibliographies were discussed with Patricia Senn Breivik (center) ‚ director of the Auraria Library in Denver, and Judith S. Eaton (right), president of the Community College of Philadelphia. Breivik is the newly elected chair of ACE’s Council of Fellows, having served as ACE Fellow with the University of Wisconsin System president in 1983-84. Eaton is the incoming chair of the ACE Board of Directors. She participated in the Arden House Symposium on Libraries and the Search for Academic Excellence in March 1987 and is a current appointee to the ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy which will report at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in 1989.

Sharon J. Rogers, Patricia Breivik, Judith Eaton.