Strategic Area: Higher Education and Research

Goal Area: Learning—ACRL and its members are recognized internationally as collaborative leaders and partners in ensuring that students leave with lifelong learning skills, improving techniques for assessing learning outcomes, and in creating environments for discovery.

Approved submission by February 1, 2011, of a $100,000 collaborative planning grant to IMLS to further the ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Initiative, and authorized staff to complete and submit the grant proposal.

Goal Area: Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity—ACRL and its members are recognized internationally as authorities on the integration of content, tools, and services into the evolving workflows of scholars and creators at all stages from initial discovery, to individuals organizing their own resources, to the creation, sharing, publication, aggregation, and preservation processes, including associated intellectual property issues.

Passed the following resolution:

Whereas ACRL supports open scholarship and access to scholarly work,

Whereas ACRL publishes C&RL, the premier scholarly journal for academic librarians,

Whereas ACRL has made successive changes to increase access to the research found in C&RL,

Whereas ACRL member groups support making C&RL an open access journal,

Be it resolved, that ACRL provide open access to the electronic version of College & Research Libraries journal as of April 2011; and,

Be it further resolved, that ACRL, through this action, continues to play a leading role in advocating for new models of scholarly communication in all of the disciplines.

Approved the proposal to hold the 2012 Rare Books and Manuscripts Preconference in San Diego at the University of California-San Diego.

The ACRL Board of Directors approved the creation of the Digital Curation Interest Group.

Goal Area: Advocacy—ACRL has greater influence on the higher education and research environment.

Confirmed its virtual vote held 7/30/10–8/6/09, which approved Mara Degnan-Rojeskias as the ACRL liaison to the American Political Science Association (APSA) for a two-year appointment.

Confirmed its virtual vote held 9/15/10–9/22/10, which approved Cindy Ingold as the ACRL liaison to the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) for a two-year appointment.

Confirmed its virtual vote held on 11/18/10–12/2/10, which approved Johanna Tuñón, Ed.D., Director of Distance and Instructional Library Services of Alvin Sherman Library at Nova Southeastern University as ACRL’s recommendation for ALA Representative to the NCATE Board of Examiners.

Strategic Area: The Profession

Goal Area: Continuous Learning—ACRL provides continuous learning opportunities enabling members to strengthen their effectiveness and achieve recognition as valued contributors to their academic and research communities.

Confirmed its virtual vote held 9/27/10–10/4/10 that approved the application to the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for $3,000 in funding to make Vols. 1–12 of Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship available through the HighWire Press platform. Note: The foundation approved this application and funded the project.

Strategic Area: The Association

Goal Area: Organizational Vitality and Effectiveness—ACRL will have the fiscal resources, staff expertise, and organizational structure to advance the association’s strategic plan by deploying data-driven decision making to drive entrepreneurial activities.

Confirmed its virtual vote held 10/12/10–10/19/10, which approved putting the following revisions to the ACRL Bylaws on the 2011 ballot. This was the first of two votes required to place a bylaws revision on the ballot.

Approved putting the revisions detailed below on the ACRL Bylaws on the 2011 ballot. This was the second of two votes required to place a bylaws revision on the ballot.