Vice-president/president-elect

Thomas (Tom) Abbott

Steven J. Bell

Thomas (Tom) Abbott is dean of libraries and distance learning at the University of Maine-Augusta (UMA), a position he has held since 2005. From 1986 to 2005, he was dean of libraries and instructional support/director of libraries at UMA.

His activities in ACRL included serving as a member of the Task Force on Standards for Libraries in Higher Education (2009–present), and as chair of the Task Force on Academic Librarians’ Job Descriptions with CUPA (2006–09). He served on the ACRL Extended Campus Library Services Section, now the Distance Learning Section (DLS), Executive Committee as member-at-large (1993–95) and as chair (1996–97). He was chair of the DLS Nominating Committee (1999–2000), and he served as a member (2006–09). He was a member of the DLS Awards Committee (2003–04), and he served as chair (2004–06). He was a member of the ACRL Awards Task Force (2005–06).

His work with outside library organizations includes serving as chair of the University of Maine System Library Directors’ Council (2003–07), and he is a representative to the Gardiner (Maine) Public Library Board of Trustees (1989–present). Abbott was also responsible for importing the University of South Carolina’s MLIS degree; now in its fourth cohort, having graduated almost 150 Maine students.

At UMA, Abbott serves as the NEASC accreditation liaison. He has been a NEASC evaluator for 20 years and regularly presents training workshops for the organization. He has served five years as campus dean for a UMA satellite campus with 500 students. He teaches the capstone course in UMA’s Mental Health and Human Services Program online using Blackboard. From 1985 to 1987, Abbott served as UMA’s acting CAO and today fills in as needed. In the community, he is finance chair and vice president for Health Reach Community Health Centers Board (HRCHC). HRCHC is an 11-community health center (Federally Qualified Health Organization) with a $15 million budget.

Abbott received ACRL’s Routledge Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award (2010) and the John N. Olsgaard Distinguished Service Award, University of South Carolina (2005). He was also the recipient of the Women Work and Community of the University of Maine System Service Award (2001) and was elected to Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit National Honor Society, Boston College Chapter (1989). His publications include chapter author, “Keeping on the Right (Correct) Side of Campus Politics,” Mistakes in Academic Library Management; Grievous Errors and How to Avoid Them (ed., Fritts, The Scarecrow Press, Inc. UK, 2009); author, “Filling the Void: An Academic Library’s Experience Developing an Associate Degree in Library and Information Technology for Distance Education Students,” in C&RL News, 1997: and chapter author, “Challenges for the Accreditation Process and Librarians,” Challenge and Practice of Academic Accreditation, A Handbook for Information Professionals (ed., Garten, 1994, Greenwood Publishing Group). Abbott received a certificate in W. Edwards Deming’s course “Quality, Productivity and Competitive Position (for Educators).

For more information, please see www.tomabbott.info.

Steven J. Bell is associate university librarian for research and instructional services at Temple University, a position he has held since 2006. From 1997 to 2006, he was library director at Philadelphia University. Prior to that, he held positions at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Library, where he was assistant director (1995–97) and head of access services (1989–94).

His activities in ACRL include serving as cochair of the 2011 President’s Program Planning Committee (2010–present), as cochair of the ACRL 2011 Conference Keynote Speaker Committee (2009–present), and as chair of the ACRL Appointments Committee (2008–09).

Bell was cochair of the ACRL 2007 Conference Innovations Committee (2005–07) and was on the ACRL College Libraries Section (CLS) Executive Committee (2006–09), where he served as chair (2007–08). Bell was also active as chair of the CLS Research Committee (2004–06) and served on the ACRL 2005 Conference Workshop Committee (2004–05). He was a member of the ACRL Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Committee (2000–04) and served a term on the ACRL Excellence in Academic Librarianship Award Nominating Committee (1999–2000).

Bell’s work with state and regional associations includes serving on the PALINET Board of Trustees (2002–05), and as president of the ACRL Delaware Valley Chapter (1998–2000).

His publications include author of “Fit Libraries Are Future-Proof,” American Libraries, vol. 41, no. 10, 2010, americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/09212010/fit-libraries-are-future-proof; author of “Taming the Textbook Market,” Inside Higher Ed, June 11, 2010, www.insidehighered.com/views/2010/06/11/bell; and coauthor with John Shank, Academic Librarianship by Design (ALA Press, 2007).

Through projects such as the Keeping Up Website (2001), Kept-Up Academic Librarian (2003), the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community (2004), ACRLog (2005), Designing Better Libraries (2007), and his Library Journal column “From the Bell Tower” (2009), Bell demonstrates a consistent track record of thought leadership and opportunity creation for academic librarians seeking out new ideas to stimulate innovation in their libraries.

For more information, please see www.stevenbell.info.

ACRL Board of Directors

Director-at-Large: Teresa Anne Fishel, Library Director, Macalester College; Loretta R. Parham, CEO and Library Director, Atlanta University Center-Robert W. Woodruff Library.

Director-at-Large: H. Frank Cervone, Vice Chancellor for Information Services and Chief Information Officer, Purdue University-Calumet; Irene M. H. Herold, Dean of Mason Library, Keene State College.

Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Deepa Banerjee, South Asian Studies Librarian, University of Washington.

Secretary: Chella Vaidyanathan, History Librarian and Curator of 19th–21st Century Books and Manuscripts Collection, Johns Hopkins University.

Member-at-Large: Ruby A. Bell Gam, Librarian for African Studies and International Development Studies, University of California-Los Angeles.

African American Studies Librarians Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Malaika Grant, Librarian for African and African American Studies, English and American Literature, University of Minnesota; Gennice W. King, Associate Library Director, Xavier University of Louisiana.

Secretary: Dalena E. Hunter, Librarian, Center for African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Member-at-Large: Aslaku Berhanu, Reference and Catalog Librarian III, Temple University.

Anthropology and Sociology Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Jennifer J. Darragh, Librarian for Data Services and Government Information, Johns Hopkins University; Wayne A. Sanders, Monograph Cataloger and Head of Books, Rare Materials and Music Unit, University of Missouri.

Secretary: Jason Bernard Phillips, Social Sciences Librarian, New York University; Erin Faraone Gratz, Associate Professor, Librarian and Liaison to the College of Arts and Sciences, University of La Verne.

Member-at-Large: Juliann Couture, Social Sciences Librarian, New York University; Helen Peeler Clements, Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Oklahoma State University-Edmon Low Library.

Arts Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Alessia Zanin-Yost, Research and Instruction Librarian and Visual and Performing Arts Liaison, Western Carolina University.

Secretary: Ann Medaille, Reference and Instruction Librarian, University of Nevada-Reno.

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: José Alberto Aguiñaga, Library Faculty, Glendale Community College North; Ann Coder, Library Services Manager, Brookhaven College, Dallas County Community College District.

Secretary: Jackie L. Case, Director of Library Services, Wake Technical Community College; Lisa Craig-Young, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Coastal Bend College.

College Libraries Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Gillian S. (Jill) Gremmels, Library Director, Davidson College; Douglas K. Lehman, Library Director, Wittenberg University.

Secretary: David Paul Bunnell, Dean of Library Services, Pittsburg State University; Amy E. Badertscher, Director of Library Services, Kenyon College.

Member-at-Large: Ann M. Watson, Library Director, Ohio University-Lancaster; Ken Fujiuchi, Emerging Technology Librarian, Buffalo State College.

Distance Learning Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Sandra Lee (Sandy) Hawes, Digital Resources Librarian, Saint Leo University; Julie Arnold Lietzau, Course Manager, Reference and Instruction Librarian, and Liaison to the Graduate School of Management and Technology, University of Maryland University College.

Secretary/Archivist: Cynthia Porter, Distance Support Librarian, A. T. Still University; Angela Paige Whitehurst, Distance Education Coordinator, East Carolina University.

Member-at-Large: Britt Fagerheim, Coordinator of Distance Education Library Services, Utah State University; Jane M. Hutton, Electronic Resources Librarian, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Vanessa J. Earp, Education Librarian, Kent State University; Dana Peterman, Research Librarian for Education, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of California-Irvine.

Secretary: Bruce R. Stoffel, Reference Services Coordinator, Illinois State University; Cindy Judd, Associate University Librarian, Eastern Kentucky University.

Member-at-Large: Jason Martin, Associate Librarian, University of Central Florida; Alex R. Hodges, Assistant Director for Library Instruction, American University.

Instruction Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Susan Miller, Instruction Coordinator, Community College of Rhode Island; Ellysa Stern Cahoy, Acting Head, Library Learning Services and Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian, Pennsylvania State University-University Park.

Secretary: Alec Sonsteby, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Metropolitan State University; Jennifer E. Knievel, Faculty Director of Research and Instruction, University of Colorado-Boulder.

Member-at-Large: Michelle S. Millet, Head of Research Services, University of Texas-San Antonio; Jennifer Sharkey, Assistant Professor of Library Science and Coordinator of Instruction and Information Literacy, Illinois State University; Wendy Holliday, Coordinator of Library Instruction, Utah State University.

Literatures in English Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Humanities Librarian, Miami University; Melissa S. Van Vuuren, English Librarian, James Madison University.

Secretary: Christine Ruotolo, Digital Services Manager, University of Virginia; Amanda Rust, Research and Instruction Librarian, Northeastern University.

Member-at-Large: David D. Oberhelman, Professor of Humanities-Social Sciences Division, Oklahoma State University; Tammy Eschedor Voelker, Associate Professor, Humanities Reference and Instruction Librarian, Kent State University.

Law and Political Science Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: LeRoy LaFleur, Head, Arlington Campus Library, George Mason University; Amalia Monroe-Gulick, Librarian for Political Science, Public Administration, and International Government Information, University of Kansas.

Secretary: Lynda Kellam McMillan, Data Services and Government Information Librarian, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Lynn Thitchener, Reference and Instruction Librarian and Government Documents Coordinator, Cornell University.

Member-at-Large: Mara Degnan Rojeski, Social Sciences Liaison Librarian, Dickinson College; Lisa R. Norberg, Dean of the Library and Academic Information Services, Barnard College.

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Erika Dowell, Public Services Librarian, Indiana University-Lilly Library; Robert L. Maxwell, Chair of Special Collections and Formats Catalog Department, Brigham Young University-Harold B. Lee Library.

Secretary: Ann Wilson Copeland, Special Collections Cataloging Librarian, Pennsylvania State University; Martha M. Lawler, Cataloger, James Smith Noel Collection, Louisiana State University-Shreveport.

Member-at-Large: Sarah S. Fisher, Head of Printed Acquisitions, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; William La Moy, Curator of Rare Books and Printed Materials, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University.

Slavic and Eastern European Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Patricia Thurston, Team Leader, Specialty Cataloging, Yale University.

Secretary: Heghine Hakobyan, Slavic Librarian, University of Oregon.

Science and Technology Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Lori Ostapowicz Critz, Head of Faculty Engagement Department and Science-Engineering Librarian, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kara M. Whatley, Head, Coles Science Center, New York University.

Secretary: Marianne Stowell Bracke, Agricultural Sciences Information Specialist, Purdue University; Edward Lener, College Librarian for the Sciences and Associate Director for Collection Management, Virginia Tech.

Member-at-Large: Peter Larsen, Physical Sciences and Engineering Librarian, University of Rhode Island; John J. Meier, Science Librarian, Pennsylvania State University.

University Libraries Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Tanner Wray, Director of Public Services, University of Maryland; Stephanie S. Atkins, Head of Access, Washington University-St. Louis.

Secretary: Wendy Girven, Public Services Librarian, University of Alaska Southeast; Robert P. Holley, Professor of Library and Information Science, Wayne State University.

Member-at-Large: Dane Ward, Associate Dean for Public Services, Illinois State University; Jamie Kearley, Head of Reference and Instruction, University of Wyoming; Jan H. Kemp, Assistant Dean for Public Services, University of Texas-San Antonio; Rubye Jean Cross, Periodicals Librarian, Georgia Institution of Technology.

Western European Studies Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Deb Raftus, Romance Languages and Literatures Librarian, University of Washington; Heidi Madden, Librarian for Western European Studies, Duke University.

Secretary: Michelle Emanuel, Catalog Librarian, University of Mississippi; Marcus Richter, Technical Services Librarian, Alma College.

Member-at-Large: Charlene M. Kellsey, Faculty Director of the Acquisitions Department, University of Colorado; Ann P. Snoeyenbos, Coordinator of International Sales and Special Markets, Project MUSE, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Women’s Studies Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Jennifer Mayer, Fine Arts and Women’s Studies Librarian, University of Wyoming; Sharon Ladenson, Gender Studies and Communications Librarian, Michigan State University.

Secretary: Susan Elaine Wood, Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Librarian, University of Memphis; Diane Fulkerson, Instruction Librarian, University of West Georgia.

Member-at-Large: Piper Martin, Social Sciences and Humanities Librarian, Wright State University; Caitlin Mary Shanley, Instructional Design and Technology Librarian, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.