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And
the
winners
are
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The official results of the 2008 ACRL elections 

Erika Linke Lori A. Goetsch 

Erika Linke, associate dean of university librar­
ies at Carnegie Mellon University, is the 71st 
president of ACRL. 

“During the campaign for president of ACRL, 
I stated that my primary goal was to ensure that 
the Board continues its focus on the ambitious 
direction that leadership and members have 
set. Specific areas of interest for me include 
advocacy for academic and research libraries 
in higher education and wherever our voice 
is needed. Scholarly communication is at the 
heart of higher education, and we will continue 
association initiatives in the evolving paradigm 
of scholarly communication. Advocacy at 
national, state, regional, and local levels are a 
key component in reaching stakeholders and 
decision makers; efforts here must grow and 
be sustained. Lastly, the association will con­
tinue to address a new generation of librarians 
through the ways in which we provide member 
programming and services. 

“What a difference a year makes! Last year, 
interest groups were just on the radar and under 
discussion. Now, thanks to membership ap­
proval, they are a reality for the association. We 
will begin work right away to ensure the asso­
ciation addresses the logistical matters that will 
underpin this new community of practice. 

“Finally, the dynamic and ambitious stra­
tegic plan demands much from ACRL leaders, 
members, and staff. I hope that in the coming 
year we can find ways to balance the demands 
and the collective effort needed to achieve the 
goals of the plan.” 

As president, Linke will preside over the 
ACRL Board of Directors and ACRL Executive 
Committee, and plan ACRL’s major program 
at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference. She will 
work with the ALA president and other division 
presidents representing ACRL both within and 
outside of ALA. 

From 1984 to 2005, Linke held numerous 
positions at Carnegie Mellon University, includ­
ing associate dean of university libraries for 
collection and user services (2003­05), associ­
ate university librarian for collection and user 
services (2001­03), associate university librarian 
for access services (1998­2001), acting university 
librarian (1996­98), assistant university librarian 
for access services (1993­98), head of collections 
and access (1991­93), head of acquisitions and 
collection development (1985­91), and conver­
sion specialist and reference librarian (1984­85). 
She also served as head of interlibrary loan 
and INFORM at the University of Minnesota 
(1982­83). 

Her activities in ACRL include serving as 
chair of the Excellence in Academic Libraries 
Nominations Committee (2006­07), member of 
the Scholarly Communication Committee (2005­
07), and cochair of the 2007 National Confer­
ence Contributed Papers Committee (2005­07). 
Linke also served as chair of the Budget and 
Finance Committee (2001­03), and on the ACRL 
Board of Directors (2001­03). She was chair of 
the Copyright Committee (1995­97) and has 
been a member of ALCTS, LAMA, LITA, and 
RUSA since 1985. 

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Linke’s work with state and regional associa­
tions has included membership in the Western 
Pennsylvania/West Virginia Chapter of ACRL 
(WPWVC), with service as chapter president 
(2003­04), member of the Board of Directors 
(2001­04), and member of the WPWVC Revi­
talization Committee (2000­01). She also served 
on the Oakland Library Consortium’s Board of 
Directors (1996­98). 

Linke currently serves on the PALINET 
Board of Trustees (2005­present). She has been 
a member of the Southwestern Pennsylvania 
Program for Deliberative Democracy Advisory 
Board since 2006, and has been a Pittsburgh 
Bibliophiles Advisory Board member since 
2001. Linke has been involved with the North 
American Serials Interest Group (1986­present) 
and has been affiliated with the Association for 
Asian Studies (1980­present). 

Linke was a UCLA Senior Fellow in 2003. 
Her publications include coauthor of 

“Changing the Publishing Paradigm for Sci­
ence and Technology,” Science and Technol­
ogy Libraries, v. 24 (no. 1/2) 2003; coauthor 
of “Scholarly Use of Information: Graduate 
Students’ Information­Seeking Behavior,” Infor­
mation Research, v. 11 (no. 4) July 2006; and 
“Addressing Staff Concerns in Changing Times: 
Supporting the Institution’s Greatest Asset,” 
IATUL Proceedings, n.s. 14, 2004. 

Linke received her master’s of library sci­
ence from the University of Minnesota, and her 
bachelor of arts degree in German and Chinese 
from Miami University (Ohio). 

Lori A. Goetsch, dean of libraries at Kansas 
State University, has been elected vice presi­
dent/president elect of ACRL. 

“Heartfelt thanks to my ACRL colleagues for 
your vote of confidence and the opportunity 
to serve as your ACRL vice­president/presi­
dent elect. It is an honor, a privilege, and an 
awesome responsibility. Also, I appreciate the 
overwhelming support you demonstrated for 
the bylaws revisions on this year’s ballot. These 
changes will help us realize our goal of be­
ing a more agile organization that opens new 
pathways for member engagement. Finding 
an association ‘home’ for all ACRL members 

is an initiative I talked about leading up to the 
election, and I will help to make this initiative 
a reality in the coming years. In addition to 
expanding member opportunities within the 
association, I am committed to looking out­
ward and exploring the needs and interests of 
all academic libraries and their communities, 
regardless of size, to ensure that ACRL is the 
voice and advocate for all academic libraries 
and librarians. 

“I plan to use my presidential year to give 
special focus to exploring issues and opportu­
nities for library workforce development and 
the changing skill sets we need in our libraries. 
Our ability to recruit and retain talented staff 
for this ‘new work’ is clearly an issue of grow­
ing interest in the profession and is now part 
of the ACRL Strategic Plan. What is the ‘new 
work’ for academic librarians as we see it, and 
as our users see it? I look forward to exploring 
these questions with you. 

Standing for election provides candidates 
an opportunity to hear from members, and I 
want this feedback to continue. Please feel free 
to share your thoughts, suggestions, and con­
cerns about ACRL with me. Also, tell me what 
is working in your library so that we can fi nd 
ways to get best practices out to the rest of our 
community. Give me a call, drop me a note, or 
send an e­mail to lgoetsch@ksu.edu.” 

From 1997 to 2004, Goetsch was director of 
public services at the University of Maryland 
Libraries. She also worked at the University of 
Tennessee, where she served as head of refer­
ence services (1993­97). Prior to that, she was 
head of information/reference at Michigan State 
University (1987­93), where she also worked as 
information/reference librarian (1985­87). She 
served as assistant reference librarian at the 
University of Illinois at Chicago (1982­85). 

Her activities in ACRL include serving as 
director­at­large on the ACRL Board (2004­
present), as chair of the Nominating Commit­
tee (2004­05), and as a member of the 2005 
National Conference Invited Papers Commit­
tee (2004­05). She served as a member of the 
Information Literacy Competency Standards 
Task Force (1998­2002), and was chair of the 
University Libraries Section (ULS) Standards 

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and Guidelines Review Committee (2000­01). 
Goetsch was chair of the Women’s Studies Sec­
tion (WSS) (1994­95) and ULS (1997­98). She 
served as ULS secretary (1991­93), as a member 
of the WSS Publications Committee (1989­93), 
and was chair of the ULS Organization and 
Bylaws Committee (1989­90). 

She was a participant in both the ACRL/Har­
vard Leadership Institute (2000) and the Senior 
Fellows Program (1995). 

Her ALA activities include serving as a 
member of the Equality Award Jury (1996­97) 
and the Committee on the Status of Women in 
Librarianship (1994­96). She was also an RASD 
representative to the Recruitment Assembly 
(1992­94). 

Goetsch’s work with state and regional as­
sociations includes membership in the Greater 
Western Library Alliance, where she is currently 
a member of the Board of Directors (2007­
present) and was a member of the Planning 
and Organization Committee (2005­06). She 
is a member of the Kansas Library Network 
Board/State Librarian Advisory Commission 
(2006­present), and she served the Michigan 
Library Association as chair of the Management 
and Administration Forum (1991­92), and the 
Annual Conference Program Planning Com­
mittee (1988­89). 

Goetsch received the University of Tennes­
see’s Professional Development Award (1995) 
and was awarded Michigan State University Li­
braries’ Distinguished Librarian Award (1992).

 Her publications include coauthor of, 
“Creating a Culture of Security in the Univer­
sity of Maryland Libraries,” Portal: Libraries 
and the Academy, October 2001; coauthor, 
“Electronic Reference Service (Association of 
Research Libraries), 1999; editor, Information 
Technology Planning (Haworth Press), 1999; 
coauthor, “Readin’, Writin’, Arithmetic and In­
formation Competency: Adding a Basic Library 
Skills Component to a University’s Curriculum,” 
CWIS: Campus Wide Information Systems, 
1998; author, “Reference is More Than a Desk,” 
Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1995; co­
author, Information Desks in Academic Librar­
ies (Association of Research Libraries), 1995; 
and coeditor, On Account of Sex, 1987­1992 

(Scarecrow Press), 1993. 
Goetsch received her master’s of library and 

information science from Rosary College. She 
received both her master’s degree in English 
and her bachelor of science degree in English 
from Illinois State University. 

ACRL 
Adoption of proposed editorial corrections to 

bylaws: Yes (3423); No (109) ADOPTED 
Adoption of proposed communities of practice: 

Yes (3270); No (181) ADOPTED 
Vice­President/President­Elect: Janice Diane 

Simmons­Welburn (1483); Lori A. Goetsch 
(2040). 

ACRL Board 
Director­at­Large (4­year term): John A. Leh­

ner (1659); Daniel R. Lee (1479). 
Director­at­Large (4­year term): Mark Emmons 

(1159); Linda A. Kopecky (2081). 

African American Studies Librarians 
Section (AFAS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Harry R. Murphy (34); 

Vivian Njeri Fisher (59). 
Secretary: Malaika Grant (83); Write­in can­

didate (1). 
Member­at­Large (2­year term): Aslaku Berhanu 

(25); Gennice W. King (62). 

Anthropology and Sociology Section 
(ANSS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Liz Cooper (134); Write­

in candidate (1). 
Member­at­Large (2­year term): Lisa Yuro (50); 

Jennifer J. Darragh (80). 

Arts Section 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: William S. Hemmig 

(182); Write­in candidate (3). 

Asian, African, and Middle Eastern 
Section (AAMES) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Anjana H. Bhatt (76); 

Write­in candidate (0). 
Member­at­Large (2­year term): Hikaru Na­

kano (52); Ping Situ (55); Write­in candi­
date (0). 

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College Libraries Section (CLS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Dawn Thistle (401); 

Ann M. Watson (329). 
Secretary: Joan Ruelle (221); Shellie Jeffries 

(475). 
Member­at­Large (2­year term): Michael J. Miller 

(326); Mary Ellen Chijioke (376). 

Community and Junior College Libraries 
Section (CJCLS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Matt Burrell (109); Mary 

Ann Sheble (220). 
Secretary: Nan Schichtel (164); David A. 

Wright (157). 

Distance Learning Section (DLS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Michele D. Behr (287); 

Brian Arnold Hickam (121). 
Secretary/Archivist: Jane M. Hutton (182); Mi­

chele Reid (230). 
Member­at­Large (2­year term): Sarah Jane 

Hammill (189); Sandra Lee Hawes (220). 

Education and Behavioral Sciences 
Section (EBSS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Salley Neal (102); Lori 

S. Mestre (170). 
Member­at­Large (2­year term): Bernadette A. 

Lear (161); Alex R. Hodges (95). 

Instruction Section (IS) 
Adoption of proposed bylaw changes: Yes 

(1174); No (36) ADOPTED 
Adoption of proposed bylaw changes: Yes 

(1173); No (26) ADOPTED 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Clara Fowler (564); 

Amy L. Deuink (559). 
Secretary: Kathy L. Magarrell (482); Merinda 

McLure (605). 
Member­at­Large (3­year term): Mark Szarko 

(557); Susanna Eng (557) elected by lot. 

Literatures in English Section (LES) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Angela Courtney (93); 

Linda Lawrence Stein (63). 
Secretary: Shawn Martin (88); Mary Claire 

Vandenburg (63). 
Member­at­Large (1­year term): Stephanie J. 

Graves (75); Millie Jackson (76). 

Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Erik Sean Estep (131); 

Write­in candidate (2). 
Member­at­Large (2­year term): Lisa R. 

Norberg (82); Binh P. Le (54). 

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section 
(RBMS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Deborah J. Leslie (269); 

Charlotte B. Brown (186). 
Member­at­Large (3­year term): Mike Kelly 

(217); J. Fernando Pena (226). 

Science and Technology Section (STS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Maliaca Oxnam (203); 

Sophie Bogdanski (178). 
Publicity Offi cer: Kara M. Whatley (215); An­

nie Zeidman­Karpinski (153). 
Member­at­Large (2­year term): Denise Beau­

bien Bennett (241); Betsy Spackman 
Hopkins (134). 

Slavic and East European Section (SEES) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Jon C. Giullian (36); 

Emily Judith Ray (26). 

University Libraries Section (ULS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Faye C. Backie (559); M. 

Leslie Madden (828). 
Member­at­Large (3­year term): Tom Fisher 

(484); Stephanie S. Atkins (923); Karl 
Frederick Bridges (653). 

Western European Studies Section 
(WESS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Timothy Shipe (81); 

Sarah E. How (96). 
Secretary: Michelle Emanuel (64); Brian Ve­

truba (102). 
Member­at­Large (1­year term): Anne Oech­

tering (104); Charlene M. Kellsey (66). 

Women’s Studies Section (WSS) 
Vice­chair/Chair­elect: Kayo Denda (161); 

Write­in candidate (0). 
Secretary: Jennifer A. Nace (89); Janet S. 

Fore (59). 
Member­at­Large (2­year term): Susan Bennett 

White (58); Kimberly L. Clarke (101). 

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