ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C & R L N e w s ■ O c t o b e r 2 0 0 3 / 5 99 C o l l e g e & R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s news Volunteer to serve on a division or section committee A CRL division and section committee volun­ teers are an integral part o f the association and drive our success. Committee members help shape the organization by implementing its strate­ gic plan (available at http://www.acrl.org, click o n “A bout ACRL,” th en “W hat is ACRL?”), re­ shaping the association, and influencing the direc­ tion o f academic and research librarianship. If you have been looking for a way to becom e more involved with ACRL and w eren’t sure what steps to take, consider volunteering for a division o r section com m ittee. V ice president Frances Maloy invites all ACRL m em bers to contact the Appointments Committee about serving on one o f ACRL’s 23 committees for next year. Members m ay also contact on e o f the section vice chairs regarding service on one o f the many section com­ mittees. The benefits o f v o lu n te e rin g Volunteers not only give to the association, they get b ack from the association. As an ACRL divi­ sion or section committee member, you will: • build ties with academic and research librar­ ians around the country, • enhance your leadership abilities through con­ sensus building and persuasion, • share your expertise with colleagues, and • gain additional expertise by learning more about a n ew area o f academ ic librarianship or picking up new ideas for your current area. Th e a p p o in tm e n t process Appointments are made at both the section and division levels. T h e ACRL vice president is re­ sponsible for the committee appointments at the division level for th e y ear h e o r sh e serves as president. Likewise, section vice chairs are re­ sponsible for com m ittee appointm ents in their respective sections the year they serve as chair. Committee slates are usually com pleted shortly after the Midwinter M eeting during the year in which the individual serves as president-elect or chair-elect. T h e ACRL Appointments Commit­ tee assists the president-elect in this process in an advisory capacity. Factors influ en cin g a p p o in tm e n t Although the emphasis in the appointment pro­ cess may vary from year to year according to the prerogatives o f the president-elect and section chairs, the same factors are considered. They in­ clude: • E v id e n ce o f p o te n tia l c o m m itte e m e m b e r’s in terest. Have you attended the meetings and introduced yourself to the chair? D o you have previous experience that relates to the work o f the committee? Have you indicated your interest on the volunteer form? • D em ograp h ics an d co m p o sitio n o f com m ittee. A balance is sought with respect to type o f library (com m unity college, college, or university), geographic representation, ethnic di­ versity, and gender. Those who have not had the opportunity to serve o n an ACRL committee are encouraged to volunteer. • T he re co m m e n d a tio n o f th e cu rre n t com m ittee ch air. Current committee chairs are asked to suggest potential members. Although all o f these factors are considered, the final appoint­ ments are the prerogative o f the ACRL president­ elect and the section chair-elects. H o w to a p p ly 1. Select th e co m m ittees th at in terest you. T h e ALA H andbook o f Organization lists all o f Get involved with ACRL http://www.acrl.org 600 / C&RL News ■ O ctober 2003 ACRL’s committees and their charges. (Ed. note: The handbook will be available online in mid- October, with a print edition mailed to members who have requested it.) Attend the committee’s meetings at the Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference to help you decide if those are the activities that interest you. 2. Submit a volu n teer form . C om plete th e v o lu n teer fo rm in cluded w ith this article. (Ed. n ote: This form is also available on ACRL’s Web site, go to www.acrl.org and select “Forms’’ from the Quicklinks drop down menu.) Be sure to cover all of the items asked for in the background information section of the form. If you have attended committee meet­ ings or programs, mention that. Fill out one form for ACRL division committees and a dif­ ferent form for each ACRL section committee you volunteer to serve on. Send the ACRL committee volunteer form to Linda Brown at the address on the bottom of the volunteer form; send the section volunteer forms to the appropriate section chair-elects (see list of addresses below). 3. In trod u ce yourself. Talk with com­ mittee members. Express your interest to the com­ mittee chair. Explain how you might contribute to the work of the committee. 4 . Volunteer again … and again. If you are not successful in being appointed one year, volunteer again the next year . . . and the next. Remember that a multitude of factors—num­ ber of appointments made, number of volun­ teers for each committee, number of volunteers from your type of library or your geographic area— determine the actual appointment, and these factors change from year to year. ACRL se ctio n ap p o in tm en ts ACRL has 17 sections (listed below). You will find a description of their areas of responsibility in the ALA H an d b ook o f O rgan ization , 2 0 0 3 - 04. The chair-elect of a section appoints the chair and members of all section committees. Most of these appointments are made in the spring for terms beginning immediately after the ALA. An­ nual Conference. If you would like to be considered for ap­ pointment as a chair or member of a section committee, fill out the ACRL Section Commit­ tee Volunteer Form and mail it to the chair-elect of the appropriate section listed below before December 1, 2003. African A m erican Studies Librarians S e c tio n . Vice-Chair/C hair-Elect: Myrtis Cochran, University of California-Berkeley, 212 Doe Memorial Library, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; e-mail: mcochran@library.berkeley.edu. A n th rop ology and Sociology Section. Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Wade Kotter, Stewart Library, Weber State University, 2901 Univer­ sity Circle, Ogden, UT 84408-2901; e-mail: wkotter® weber. edu. A rts S ectio n . Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Sandra “Sandy” Mooney; LSU Libraries, Design Resource Center, 104 Design Building, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-7010; e-mail: smooney@lsu.edu. Asian, African and Middle E astern Sec­ tion . Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Majed Khader, Marshall University, University Libraries, One John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25755- 0001; e-mail: Khader@marshall.edu Community and Ju n io r College Librar­ ies Section. Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Maiy M. Carr, Spokane Community College, 1810 North Greene Street, MS 2160, Spokane, WA 99217- 5320; e-mail: mcarr@scc.spokane.edu. College Libraries Section. Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect: Damon D. Hickey, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691-2364; e-mail: dhickey@wooster.edu. D istance Learning Section. Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect: Stephen H. Dew, 100 Main Library, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1420; e-mail: stephen-dew@uiowa.edu. E d u catio n an d B eh av io ral S cien ces Section. Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Judith A. Walker, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library, Charlotte, NC 28223; e-mail: jwalker@email.uncc.edu. In stru ction Section. Vice-Chair/Chair- Elect: Elizabeth A. Dupuis, University of Cali­ fomia-Berkeley, 302 Moffitt Library, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; e-mail: dupuis@libraιy.berkeley. edu. An online IS committee volunteer form is available at: http://www.ala.org/Content/ ContentGroups/ACRLl/IS/ISCommittees/ Committee_Volunteer_ Form.htm. http://www.acrl.org mailto:mcochran@library.berkeley.edu mailto:smooney@lsu.edu mailto:ldiader@marshall.edu mailto:mcarr@scc.spokane.edu mailto:dhickey@wooster.edu mailto:stephen-dew@uiowa.edu mailto:jwalker@email.uncc.edu http://www.ala.org/Content/ C&RL News ■ October 2003 / 601 Law and P o litical S cien ce S ection . Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Lynne P. Rudasill, Uni­ versity of Illinois Library, 1408 W. Gregory, Room 100, Urbana, IL 61801-3607; e-mail: rudasill@ uiuc.edu. Literatures in English Section. Vice- Chair/Chair-Elect: Jennifer Sue Stevens, Wash­ ington State University, 130 Cleveland Hall, P. O. Box 642112, Pullman, WA 99163; e-mail: stevensj@wsu.edu. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. Vice-Chaii'/Chair-Elect: Elaine B. Smyth, Special Collections, Louisiana State University Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-3300; e-mail: esmyth® lsu.edu. Science and Technology Section. Vice- Chair/Chair-Elect: Jeanne Davidson, 121 The Valley Library, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-4501; e-mail: jeanne.davidson@ oregonstate.edu. Slavic and East European Section. Vice- Chair/Chair-Elect: Janice T. Pilch, 1922 Melrose Drive, Apt. C, Champaign, IL 61820; e-mail: pilch@uiuc.edu. University libraries Section. Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect: Carol Ann Hughes, Public Services, UCI Libraries, P. O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623- 9557; e-mail: hughes@uci.edu. W estern E u ro p ean Studies Section. Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Thomas M. Izbicki, Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218; e- mail: izbicki@jhu.edu. W omen’s Studies Section. Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect: Ruth Dickstein, University of Ari­ zona Library, P.O. Box 210055, Tucson, AZ 85721-0055; e-mail: dicksteinr@u.library. arizona.edu. ACRL d ivisio n al com m ittee appointm ents ACRL has 23 standing committees to which appointments may be made for 2003-2004. A list appears on the volunteer form at the end of this article. You will find the committees listed with a description of their charges in the ALA H a n d b o o k o f O rg a n iz a tio n . Appoint­ ments to ACRL standing committees are made in the spring for terms beginning immediately after the ALA Annual Conference. The Ap­ pointments Committee recommends to the president-elect of ACRL the names of mem­ bers who might fill the vacancies. The presi- dent-elect makes the final appointments. If you want to be considered for an appointment to an ACRL committee, complete the form and return it to Linda Brown at the address given on the form before December 1, 2003. E d ito ria l boards ACRL has six editorial boards for its publica­ tions: CHOICE, C ollege & R esearch L ibraries, C ollege & R esearch L ibraries News, New Pub­ lications Advisory Board, P u b lica tio n s in L ib ra ria n sh ip , and RBM: A Jo u r n a l o f R are B ooks, M anuscripts, a n d Cultural H eritage. Appointments to editorial boards are made at the Midwinter Meeting for terms that begin immediately after the ALA Annual Conference. The editors recommend the name of a person to fill a vacancy. The Publications Committee must approve the recommendation, and the president of ACRL makes the appointment. If you would like to be considered for appoint­ ment to an editorial board, contact the editor of the editorial board early in the fall. CHOICE editor: Irving Rockwood, C hoice, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06457; e-mail: irockwood@ala-choice.org. College & R esearch Libraries editor: William Gray Potter, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GA 30602-1641; e-mail: wpotter@ arches.uga.edu. C ollege & R esearch L ibraries News editor: Stephanie Orphan, C&RL News, ACRL/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e- mail: soiphan@ala.org. New publications editor: Hugh Thompson, ACRI/ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 606I I - 2795; e-mail: hthompson@ala.org. Publications in Librarianship editor: Charles Schwartz, Florida International, Green Library, University Park, Miami, FL 33199; e-mail: tony, schwartz@fiu.edu. RBM: A J o u r n a l o f R a re B o o k s, M an u ­ scrip ts, a nd C u ltu ral H eritag e editor: Rich­ ard Clement, head of special collections, University o f Kansas, Spencer Research Li­ b r a r y , L a w r e n c e , KS 6 6 0 4 5 - 2 8 0 0 ; rclem ent@ku.edu. ■ mailto:stevensj@wsu.edu mailto:pilch@uiuc.edu mailto:hughes@uci.edu mailto:izbicki@jhu.edu mailto:irockwood@ala-choice.org mailto:soiphan@ala.org mailto:hthompson@ala.org mailto:schwartz@fiu.edu mailto:rclement@ku.edu 602 / C&RL News • O ctober 2003 ACRL committee volunteer form Background information On a separate single sheet of paper, briefly sum­ marize your background and activities in the following areas: 1) ALA professional activities; 2) ACRL professional activities; 3) state and re­ gional offices held and committee appoint­ ments; 4) educational background and/or other experience that will inform the committee about special gifts and talents you would bring to the committee for which you are volunteering. Please include in your application an expres­ sion of your professional concerns and the con­ tribution that you can make toward strength­ ening ACRL. Date of Application:___________________________ Name:__________________________________________ Job title:________________________________________ Daytime phone:________________________________ Fax number:___________________________________ E-mail address:_________________________________ Organization/library:___________________________ Institution's address:___________________________ Ethnicity (optional): ____ Hispanic or Latino ____ Not Hispanic or Latino ____ American Indian or Alaska Native ____ Asian ____ Black or African American ____ Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander ____ White __ Other (specify)------------------ Division committees To volunteer for a division committee, complete this form and return it to: Linda A. Brown, University Libraries, Bowl­ ing Green State University, 1001 E. Wooster, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403; phone: (419) 372-7894; fax: (419) 372- 7996; e-mail: lbrown@bgnet.bgsu.edu • M e m b e rsh ip in A L A a n d A C R L is re q u ire d . • A tte n d a n c e a t A L A M id w in te r M e e tin g a n d A n n u a l C o n fere n ce is req u ired . The following divisionwide committees have vacancies annually. Please indicate your first three choices by marking "1," "2," and "3" on the corresponding lines. AASL/ACRL Interdivisional Committee on Information Literacy ____ Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award ____ Budget and Finance ____ Bylaws ____ Copyright ____ Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ____ Effective Practices ____ Ethics ____ Government Relations ____ Intellectual Freedom ____ International Relations ____ (Samuel) Lazerow Fellowship for Research in Collections and Technical Services ____ Marketing Academic and Research Libraries ____ Membership ____ Professional Development ____ Publications ____ Racial and Ethnic Diversity ____ Research ____ Scholarly Communication ____ Spectrum Scholars Mentor ____ Standards and Accreditation ____ Statistics ____ Status of Academic Librarians ____ I am willing to serve on any committee for which I am qualified and needed as a regular member or as an intern. N o te : B y a c ce p tin g an a p p o in tm e n t, I a g re e tha t all w o rkin g p a p e rs a n d final p ro d u c ts o f th e g ro u p a re th e s o le p r o p e r t y o f A C R L a n d a re n o t to b e u s e d f o r a n y p e r s o n a l p r o je c ts u n less w ritten perm ission h as b e e n ob ta in ed from th e a p p ro p ria te g o v e rn in g body. I also certify th a t it d o e s n o t re p re s e n t a con flict o f in te re s t. I u n d e rs ta n d th a t failu re to a tt e n d t w o m e e t in g s w i t h o u t an e x p la n a tio n a c­ cep ta b le to th e chair c o n stitu te s g ro u n d s f o r removal. Form s m ust b e retu rn ed b y D ecem ber 1,2003. mailto:lbrown@bgnet.bgsu.edu C&RL News ■ O ctober 2003 / 603 Section committee volunteer form B a ck g ro u n d in fo rm a tio n f o r se ctio n c o m m itte e s Provide a separate sheet for information about yourself following the instructions given on the ACRL commit­ tee volunteer form (previous page) under background inform ation. To indicate your particular interest in serving on a committee in one o f ACRL's 17 sections, w rite the committee name(s) next to the section below. African Am erican Studies Librarians________________________________________________________________________ Anthropology and Sociology------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A rts ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Asian, A frican and Middle Eastern__________________________________________________________________________ College Libraries______________________________________________________________________________________________ Community and Junior College Libraries___________________________________________________________________ Distance Learning Section___________________________________________________________________________________ Education and Behavioral Sciences_________________________________________________________________________ Instruction____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Law and Political Science____________________________________________________________________________________ Literatures in English_________________________________________________________________________________________ Rare Books and M anuscripts________________________________________________________________________________ Science and Technology ____________________________________________________________________________________ Slavic and East E u ro p e a n ____________________________________________________________________________________ University L ib rarie s___________________________________________________________________________________________ W estern European S tu d ie s __________________________________________________________________________________ W omen's Studies_____________________________________________________________________________________________ Date of application:___________________________________ Organization/library:______________________________ Name:__________________________________________________ Institution's address:______________________________ Job tit le :_______________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Daytime phone:_______________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Fax num ber:___________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ E-mail address:________________________________________ Eth n icity (o p tio n a l): R e tu rn fo r m t o : ----- H is p a n ic o r L a tin o Return this completed form to the appropriate sec- _____ N o t H is p a n ic o r L a tin o tion vice-chair/chair-elect as indicated in the accom- _____ Am erican Indian or A laska Native panying article. (Use duplicate forms if you are inter- _____ A sian ested in more th an one section.) Y o u must be a nl . . . m em ber o f th e section to be considered fo r ap- ----- B la ck o r A fric a n A m e rica n p o in tm e n t. F o r m s m u st be re tu rn e d by De- ----- N ative H a w a iia n o r O th e r P a cific Islan d e r ce m b e r 1, 2003. W h i†p • Membership in ALA and ACRL is required. O th e r (specify) • Attendance at ALA Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference is required. Note: By accepting an appointment, I agree that all working papers and final products o f the group are the sole property o f ACRL and are not to b e used for any personal projects unless written permission has been obtained from the appropriate governing body. I also certify that it does n o t represent a conflict o f interest. I understand that failure to attend two meetings without an explanation acceptable to the chair constitutes grounds for removal.