ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 2 7 0 / C&RL News The tim e to lead ACRL seeks nominees f o r office ould you lik e to serve on th e ACR B oard o f D irectors as vice-presidentW L / president-elect o r s ee k office in an ACRL s ec ­ tion? W ould you like to nom inate an y on e else for o n e o f these positions? If the answ er is yes, here is w hat you n eed to do. ACRL Board of Directors The ACRL Appointments and Nominations Com­ m ittee will b e nom inating candidates for ACRL vice-president/president-elect. T he election will b e held in the spring o f 1996 and the w inners will hold office beginn ing in th e sum m er o f 1996. I f you w ish to b e con sidered for nom ina­ tion o r if you w ould lik e to subm it nam es for consideration, con tact the chair o f the com m it­ tee: M axine H. Reneker, 4 37 College Ave., Palo A lto, CA 9 4 3 0 6 -1 5 2 5 ; fa x : ( 4 0 8 ) 6 5 6 -2 8 4 2 ; e-m ail: m ren ek er@ n p s.n av y .m il, prior to the ALA Annual C on feren ce in Chicago this Ju n e. ACRL section officers Candidates for vice-chair/chair-elect o f ACRL section s are selected by the Nominating Com ­ m ittee o f ea ch section . If you w ould like to nom inate s om eo n e or b e nom inated for VC o f an ACRL section , con tact the chair o f the N omi­ nating Com m ittee for the appropriate section prior to the ALA Annual C on feren ce in Chi­ cago. O th er section officers, including secre­ tary and m em ber-at-large, m ay also b e under con sideration for this term o f office, w hich will begin in the sum m er o f 1996. Section nom inating committee chairs Afro-American Studies Librarian Section. E. Gail R eese, Assistant D irector for Inform a­ tion Resources, Case W estern Reserve Univer­ sity, 1 0 9 0 0 E u clid A ven u e, C lev elan d , OH 4 4 106-7151; e-m ail: egr@ p o.cw ru .ed u . Anthropology and Sociology Section. David M. H ovde, Purdue University Libraries, 1530 Stewart Center, W est Lafayette, IN 47907-1530; e-mail: hovd e@ m entor.cc.p u rd u e.ed u . Arts Section. Christine W hittington, 98 Mill St., O rono, ME 0 4473; e-mail: christin@ m ain e.ed u. Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Section. Carol L. Jo n e s , Y ale University, K line S cien ce Library, 2 19 P rospect St., B o x 6666, New Ha­ v e n , C T 0 6 5 2 0 - 8 1 1 1 ; e -m a il: c a r o l.jo n e s @ quickm ail.yale.edu . Bibliographic Instruction Section. Shirley Cody, Ferris State University Library, 1201 South State Street, B ig R ap id s, MI 4 9 3 0 7 ; e-m ail: cod y s@ lib0 1.ferris.e d u . College Library Section. Jo h n Sheridan, 1731 N. Nevada Ave., C olorado Springs, CO 80907; e-m ail: jsh erid an @ cc.co lo rad o .ed u . Community and Ju n io r College Libraries Section. Ja y B. Clark, San Ja c in to College, Lee Davis Library, 8060 Spencer Highway, Pasadena, T X 7 7 501-2007; e-mail: jb clark @ ten et.ed u . (Tim e to le a d cont. on p a g e 287) Letter A p p la u s e f o r ACRL's s u p p o r t o f A LA G o a l 2 0 0 0 An o p e n letter to the ACRL Board o f D irec­ tors: Y ou r action in support o f ALA G oal 2000 is truly exception al. T h e Am erican Library Association, b ecau se o f your leadership, will b e able to immediately mount a strong policy initiative in support o f “fair u s e ” protection in an electron ic environm ent and continued federal funding for academ ic libraries. You have demonstrated a real com m itm ent to our academ ic library patrons and an aggressive legislative agenda. Y ou to o k action at a time w h en it could m ake a real d ifference. I ap­ plaud your vision, leadership, and willing­ ness to step up to the challeng es w e face. Carla Stofβe, University o f Arizona — mailto:mreneker@nps.navy.mil mailto:egr@po.cwru.edu mailto:hovde@mentor.cc.purdue.edu mailto:christin@maine.edu mailto:jsheridan@cc.colorado.edu mailto:jbclark@tenet.edu April 1 9 9 5 / 2 8 7 February 20 after a tw o-year battle with cancer. He was 62. A native o f Charlotte, North Caro­ lina, Moffett received his u n d erg rad u ate d e g r e e from Davidson C ollege, his M.A. and Ph.D. in his­ tory from D u ke Univer­ sity, and his MLS from Simmons College. Before joining the Huntington, he serv e d as a s sista n t professor o f h istory at Alma College (1964– 68 ) and at the University o f WUlíam A. Moffett Massachusetts (1968–74), director o f libraries for the State University o f New York/College at Potsdam (1974– 79), and the Azariah Smith Root director o f libraries at Oberlin College (1979– 90). Moffett was an active m em ber o f ALA’s Com­ mittee o n Intellectual Freedom , the D u ke Uni­ versity Libraries B o ard o f Advisors, and the UCLA Graduate Sch ool o f Library and Inform a­ tion Scien ces Advisory Com m ittee. He was also active in ACRL, serving as its presid ent from 1989 to 1990. T h e recipient o f m any profes­ sional honors, Moffett w as nam ed ACRL’s A ca­ dem ic or R esearch Librarian o f the Y ear in 1993. That sam e year h e received ALA’s Im mroth Me­ morial Award for Intellectual Freedom , the Spe­ cial Libraries A ssociation’s P rofessional Librar­ ian o f 1993 Award, and an honorary d octor o f law s d eg re e from th e SUN Y/Potsdam . T h e Sim m ons College Graduate Sch ool o f Library and Inform ation Science gave Moffett its Alumni A chievem ent Award in 1994. Moffett is p robably b est know n, profession­ ally, fo r giving access to the Huntington's p h o ­ tographic archive o f the D ead Sea Scrolls to qualified scholars in 1991, breaking the 40-year scholarly m onopoly o n Scrolls study. At the time Moffett said, “W h en you free the Scrolls ýou free the scholars. O pening access to the D ead Sea Scrolls is an affirmation o f the m ission o f research libraries: not m erely to store and pre­ serve inform ation, but to m ake it available in as free and unfrettered a w ay as p ossib le.” Elma Cole Pamplin, w ho retired from the Cen­ tral Intelligence A gency (CIA) as a reference librarian in 1976, died in Janu ary at the age o f 79. She held m any jo b s b efo re joining the CIA in 1953, w here sh e also w orked as an intelli­ g en ce analyst. (Time to le a d c o n t.fr o m p a g e 270) Education and Behavioral Sciences Section. Leslie Bjorncrantz, N orthwestern University Li­ brary, 1935 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208; e-mail: L-bjom crantz@ nw u .ed u. English and American Literature Section. Madeline Copp, Collection D evelopm ent Librar­ ian, Huntington Library, 1151 O xford Road, San Marino, CA 91108; fax: (8 1 8 ) 449-5720. Extended Campus Library Services Section. Virginia W itucke, Off-Cam pus Librarian, Cen­ tral M ichigan University, 8 1 1 0 G ateh ou se Road, Suite 500W , Falls Church, VA 22042; e-mail: 31zxoay @ cm u vm .csv.cm ich.ed u . Law and Political Science Section. Caroline Tibbetts, 1612 Forbes Q uad, GSPIA/Econ Li­ brary, University o f Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260; e-m ail: cjt@ vm s.cis.pitt.ed u. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. Ja c k ie Dooley, Head o f Special Collections and Uni­ versity A rchives, Main Library, University o f California-Irvine, P.O . B o x 19557, Irvine, CA 92713-9557; e-mail: egs2gla@ m vs.oac.u cla.ed u . Science and Technology Section. Ja n e t Fore, University o f Arizona Library, 1510 E. Univer­ sity, T u c so n , AZ 8 5 7 2 0 -0 0 5 5 ; e-m ail: jfore@ server, library.arizon a.ed u . Slavic and East E u rop ean Section. N ina Palm in, Art and S cien ce Cataloging Division, Library o f Congress, W ashington, DC 20540; e-mail: p alm in@ m ail.loc.gov. U n iv e rs ity L ib ra r ie s S e ctio n . N o r e e n Alldredge, California State University-Hayward, H ay w ard , CA 9 4 5 4 2 ; e -m a il: n a lld re d g e @ csu hayw ard.edu. W estern E u ro p e a n S p ecialists Section. Stephen Lehm ann, University o f Pennsylvania, Van Pelt-D ietrich Library Center, 342 0 Walnut S t., P h ila d e lp h ia , PA 1 9 1 0 4 - 6 2 0 6 ; e -m a il: le h m a n n @ a l.rela y .u p en n .ed u . W om en’s Studies Section. B etty J . G lass, University o f N evada-Reno Library, Mail Stop 322. Reno. NV 89511: e-mail: slass@unr.edu. mailto:L-bjomcrantz@nwu.edu mailto:31zxoay@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu mailto:cjt@vms.cis.pitt.edu mailto:egs2gla@mvs.oac.ucla.edu mailto:palmin@mail.loc.gov mailto:lehmann@al.relay.upenn.edu mailto:slass@unr.edu