ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


284 / C&RL News ■  April 1998

C o l l e g e  & R e s e a r c h  L i b r a r i e s

The time to lead

ACRI seeks nominees for office
W

ould you like to se e k  o ffice  in an 
ACRL section? Would you like to nomi­
nate anyone else for one o f these positio

If the answers is yes, here is what you need 
to do.

A C R L  se c tio n  o ffic e r s
Candidates for vice-chair/chair-elect o f ACRL 
sectio n s are selected  by the Nominating 
Committee o f each section. If you would 
like to nominate som eone or be nominated 
for vice-chair o f an ACRL section, contact 
the chair o f the Nominating Committee for 
the appropriate section prior to the ALA 
Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

Other section officers, including secre­
tary and member-at-large, may also be un­
der consideration for this term o f office, 
which will begin in the summer o f 1999.

S e c tio n  n o m in a t in g  c o m m itte e  
c h a irs
A frica n -A m e rica n  Studies L ib ra ria n s
Rochelle R. Ballard, University o f Central 
Florida, P.O. Box 162666, Orlando, FL 32816- 
2666; ballard@ pegasus.cc.ucf.edu.

A n th ro p o lo g y  a n d  S o cio lo g y
Fred J. Hay, W. L. Fury Appalachian Collec­
tion, Belk Library, Appalachian State Uni­
v e r s it y , B o o n e , NC 2 8 6 0 8 ; h a y fj@  
appstate.edu.

A rts
Nancy Stokes, T he University o f Akron, 
B ierce Library, 178-C, Akron, OH 44325- 
1707; nancy stokes©uakron.ed u .

A sian, A frican , a n d  Middle E a s te rn
To be announced. Contact the current section 
Chair, Robert B. Marks Ridinger, Northern Illi­
nois University, University Libraries, Dekalb, 
IL 60115-0000; c60rb l@ co rn .cso .n iu .ed u .

ns

C ollege L ib raries
Connie Vinita Dowell, dean o f Information 
?S ervices, Connecticut College, Charles Shain 
Library, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London, 
CT 06320; cvdow @ conncoll.edu.

C om m u n ity an d  J u n io r  College Libraries
Lenora Lockett, director, Moss Memorial Li­
brary, Delgado Community College, 6 l5 City 
Park Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70119-4326; 
llo ck e@ d cc.ed u .

E n g lish  a n d  A m e ric a n  L ite ra tu re
To be announced. Contact the current Sec­
tion Chair, Betty H. Day, Humanities Bibli­
ographer, University o f Maryland College 
Park, 1204 Goth Lane, Silver Spring, MD 
20905-5518; bd5@um ail.um d.edu.

E d u ca tio n  a n d  B e h a v io ra l S cie n ce s
Mary Beth Minick, Indiana University/Purdue 
University Indianapolis, 755 West Michigan 
S t., I n d ia n a p o lis , IN 4 6 2 0 2 - 5 1 9 5 ; 
m bm inick@library.iupui.edu.

E x te n d e d  C am p u s L ib ra ry  S erv ices
Ja ck  Fritts, SWITCH, 6801 N. Yates Road., 
Milwaukee, WI 53217; JFR I@ iceberg.org.

I n s tr u c tio n
Lori Arp, University o f Colorado, Campus 
B o x  184, Boulder, CO 80309; arpl@spot. 
colorad o.ed u .

Law  a n d  P o litica l S cie n ce
Cathy Doyle, university librarian, Smith Li­
brary, Christopher Newport University, New­
port News, VA 23606; doyle@ cnu.edu.

R are B o o k s a n d  M an u scrip ts
Susan M. Allen, head, Department o f Spe­
cial Collections, UCLA University Research 
Library, Room A1713, URL, Box 951575, Los

mailto:ballard@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
appstate.edu
uakron.edu
mailto:c60rbl@corn.cso.niu.edu
mailto:cvdow@conncoll.edu
mailto:llocke@dcc.edu
mailto:bd5@umail.umd.edu
mailto:mbminick@library.iupui.edu
mailto:JFRI@iceberg.org
colorado.edu
mailto:doyle@cnu.edu


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A ngeles, C'A 9 0 0 9 5 -1 5 7 5 ; sallen @ lib rary . 
ucla.ed u .

S c ie n ce  a n d  T e c h n o lo g y
Amy L. Paster, Life Sciences Library, Penn­
sylvania State University, E205 Pattee Library, 
U n iv e rsity  P ark , PA 1 6 8 0 2 - 1 8 0 1 ; alp @  
psulias.psu.edu.

Slavic a n d  E ast E u ro p e a n
Patricia K. Thurston, Slavic & East European 
Library, U n iv ersity  o f Illin o is , U rb an a- 
Champaign; pthurstn@uxl .cso.u iu c.ed u .

U n iv e rsity  L ib ra rie s
Barbara E. Kemp, assistant director for the 
Dew ey Graduate Library for Public Affairs 
and Policy, University at Albany, State Uni­
versity o f New York, 135 Western Avenue, 
A lb a n y , New Y o r k ; p h a n to m @ c n s v a x . 
albany.edu.

W e s te rn  E u ro p e a n  S p ecialists
Beau David Case, Language & Area Studies 
Departm ent, Ohio State LJniversity Librar­
ies, 1858 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, OEI 
43210-1286; case.42@ o su .ed u .

W o m e n ’s Studies
Ruth Dickstein, Main Library, University o f 
Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85720-0055; dickstein@ 
bird.library.arizona.ed u .

Apply for ACRL preconferences
Learn more about advocacy, instruction, 

or special collections by attending one of 
ACRL’s three preconferences at the ALA 
Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. 
Details about the following preconferences 
may be found on the ACRL Web page at 
http://www.ala.org/acrl/annconf. html and 
in the March 1999 C&RL News:

• “Advocacy training for academ ic li­
brarians: From ivory towers to halls of 
pow er,” Ju n e 2 4 -2 5 , 1998.

• “Learning to Teach: Workshops on 
Instruction” sponsored by ACRL’s Instruc­
tion Section, Ju n e 26, 1998.

• “Getting Ready for the Nineteenth 
Century: Strategies and Solutions for Rare 
B o o k  and Special Collections Librarians,” 
sponsored by ACRL’s Rare Books & Manu­
scripts Section, Ju n e 2 3 -2 6 ,1 9 9 8 .

( T h e  In t ’l. BOBCATSSS …  c o n t. f r o m  p . 2 7 3 ) 
the form of “Learning Development Reports,” 
which are completed at the end of the stu­
dents’ final year. In this report, students come 
to a full realization that “…  the ability to 
reflect upon one’s own development is seen as a 
desirable quality in modern professionals.”

Clive Cochrane, a lecturer at Queens Uni­
versity of Belfast in Northern Ireland, presented 
“Information Professionals and the Learning 
Society,” in which he characterized and de­
scribed the Learning Society in terms of econo­
mies in rural markets and the impact o f this 
on society, the educational training and busi­
ness sector recognition o f the significance of 
learning, and the role of library and informa­
tional professionals and learning in the Learn­
ing Society. Cochrane managed very well a 
discussion of the overall transition from “…  a 
society where education is important to a so­
ciety where learning permeates life.”

One of the last presentations made during 
the symposium was by lecturer Pieter Penning 
of the Department of Information Science at the 
University of Pretoria in South Africa. Penning 
spoke about future roles of information profes­
sionals with specific reference to the role of the 
information intermediary in South Africa. In his 
remarks, he assessed Africa’s access to and re­
sulting participation in the information society. 
He offered the fundamental hypothesis that cur­
rent initiatives to stimulate Africa’s participation 
in the Information Society focus primarily on 
access to information through technological in­
frastructures and do not take the accessibility of 
that information content into account. He argued 
that “the accessibility of information content is 
the pivotal point that will ensure or negate suc­
cess of current and future development initia­
tives in Africa.”

B O B C A TSSS ’99
BOBCATSSS ’98 was a very well organized 
symposium, and credit for this must be given 
to the BOBCATSSS team. Plans are already 
well underway for BOBCATSSS ’99, which will 
take place in Bratislava on the Danube River 
in Slovakia. It is being organized as a project 
o f  s tu d e n ts  from  th e F a c h h o c h s c h u le  
D a rm sta d t and th e H o c h s c h u le  fu e r 
Bibliotheks- und Informationswesen Stuttgart. 
Further information can be obtained at http:// 
w w w .f h - d a r m s t a d t .d e / B O B C A T S S S /  
conf99.htm .

ucla.edu
psulias.psu.edu
cso.uiuc.edu
albany.edu
mailto:case.42@osu.edu
bird.library.arizona.edu
http://www.ala.org/acrl/annconf
http://www.fh-darmstadt.de/BOBCATSSS/