jan09b.indd


ACRL
candidates
for
2009


A
look
at
who’s
running
for
offi
 
 ce 
 


Lisa Janicke Hinchliff e Kelly S. Janousek 

Vice-president/president-elect 
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
 is
 coordinator
 for

information
literacy
services
at
the
University

of
 Illinois
 at
 Urbana­Champaign
 (UIUC),
 a

position
she
has
held
since
2002.
She
is
also

head
of
the
undergraduate
library
at
UIUC,
a

position
she
has
held
since
2006.
From
1998
to

2002,
she
was
library
instruction
coordinator
at

Illinois
State
University.
Hinchliffe
also
worked

at
Parkland
(Community)
College
where
she

served
as
reference
librarian
(1996–98).


Her
activities
in
ACRL
include
serving
as

chair
of
the
Blog
Advisory
Board
(2008–pres­
ent),
 chair
 of
 the
 Instruction
 Section
 (IS)

Nominating
 Committee
 (2007–present),
 and

cochair
 of
 the
 National
 Conference
 Innova­
tions
Group
(2007–present).
She
served
as
a

member
of
the
Information
Literacy
Compe­
tency
Standards
Review
Task
Force
(2007–08).

Hinchliffe
was
a
member
of
the
Institute
for

Information
 Literacy
 Executive
 Committee

(2006–07,
2002–03),
Institute
for
Information

Literacy
Undergraduate
Student
Surveys
Group

(2004–07),
 and
 Institute
 for
 Information
 Lit­
eracy
Best
Practices
Advisory
Panel
(2000–03).

She
was
chair
of
the
Instruction
Section
(IS)

(2005–06),
 member­at­large
 (2000–03),
 and

secretary
(1998–99).
Her
service
on
IS
commit­
tees
includes
the
Dudley
Award
Subcommittee


(2006–07),
 Research
 and
 Scholarship
 Com­
mittee
(1999–2000),
Skill
Areas
for
Instruction

Librarians
Task
Force
(1998–99),
Membership

(1995–97),
Name
Change
Implementation
Task

Force
(1995–96).
She
chaired
the
Information

Literacy
 Advisory
 Committee
 (2006–07
 and

2000–02).
 Hinchliffe
 served
 on
 the
 National

Conference
Contributed
Papers
Subcommittee

(2005–07)
and
Preconferences
Subcommittee

(2001–03).
 She
 was
 a
 member
 of
 the
 First­
Year
 Experience
 Task
 Force
 (2003–04)
 and

Focus
 on
 the
 Future
 Task
 Force
 (2001–03).

She
served
on
the
Distance
Learning
Section

(DLS)
Guidelines
Committee
(1999–2001)
and

chaired
 the
 Community
 and
 Junior
 College

Libraries
 Section
 (CJCLS)
 Technology
 Com­
mittee
(1997­98).


Hinchliffe’s
work
with
state
and
regional

associations
includes
service
in
the
Consor­
tium
of
Academic
and
Research
Libraries
in

Illinois,
where
she
is
currently
a
member
of

the
 Public
 Services
 Working
 Group
 (2006–

present).
She
currently
chairs
the
Instruction

Librarians
 Group
 (2006–present),
 which
 is

part
of
the
Center
for
Library
Initiatives,
Com­
mittee
on
Interinstitutional
Cooperation
(Big

10+).
She
served
on
the
LOEX
Advisory
Board

(2000–07).
Hinchliffe
was
a
member
of
the

Association
of
Research
Libraries
Task
Force

on
Library
Roles
in
Enhanced
Environments

for
 Teaching
 and
 Learning
 (2006),
 Library

Assessment
Conference
Planning
Committee

(2005–06),
and
Learning
Outcomes
Working

Group
(2003–05).
She
served
on
the
Illinois

Library
Association
Awards
Committee
(2001–

03)
 and
 the
 Illinois
 Association
 of
 College

and
 Research
 Libraries,
 where
 she
 chaired

the
2001
Program
Planning
Committee
and

the
 2000
 Preconference
 Program
 Planning

Committee
(1999–2000).


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Her
 publications
 include
 coauthor
 of

“Teaching
the
Teachers:
Developing
a
Teaching

Improvement
 Program
 for
 Academic
 Librar­
ians,”
The Expert Library: Staffi ng, Sustaining, 
and Advancing the Academic Library in the 
21st Century
(forthcoming,
ACRL);
“The
Future

of
 Information
 Literacy,”
 The Information Lit­
eracy Instruction Handbook (ACRL,
2008);
and

coauthor
 of
 “Beyond
 Classroom
 Construction

and
Design:
Formulating
a
Vision
for
Learning

Spaces
in
Libraries,”
Reference and User Services 
Quarterly
(2005).


Hinchliffe
received
the
University
of
Illinois

Library
School
Alumni
Association
Leadership

Award
 (2003),
 ONLINE
 Word
 Best
 Practice

Award
(2000),
and
Jane
B.
and
Robert
B.
Downs

Professional
 Promise
 Award
 (1995).
 She
 was

selected
to
participate
in
the
Frye
Leadership
In­
stitute
(2003)
and
UCLA
Senior
Fellows
Program

(2003)
and
elected
to
Beta
Phi
Mu
(1994).


She
received
her
master’s
of
education
and

master’s
of
library
and
information
science
from

UIUC.
She
earned
her
bachelor
of
arts
from
the

University
of
St.
Thomas
(Minnesota).


Kelly S. Janousek
 currently
 serves
 as
 librarian

at
 the
 California
 State
 University
 (CSU)­Long

Beach,
a
position
she
has
held
since
1988.
She

was
assistant
professor
and
social
science
librar­
ian
at
Mississippi
State
University
(1984–88).


She
 chaired
 the
 Law
 and
 Political
 Science

Section
(LPSS)
(2007–08)
and
currently
serves

as
past
chair
(2008–09).
Janousek
also
served

as
LPSS
member­at­large
(2004–06).
She
was
a

member
of
the
LPSS
Library
Instruction
Com­
mittee
 (2003–05),
 Marta
 Lange/CQ
 Awards

Committee
(2000–03),
Membership
Committee

(2003–06),
and
Research
Committee
(2007–08).

She
 chaired
 Sections
 Council
 (2007–08)
 and

serves
on
the
Membership
Advisory
Committee

(2004–05,
2008–present).


Janousek
 chaired
 the
 RUSA
 Business
 and

Reference
 Services
 Section
 (1999–2000)
 and

served
as
member­at­large
(1994–97).
She
has

served
on
numerous
RUSA
committees,
includ­
ing
the
John
Sessions
Memorial
Award
for
Ser­
vice
to
Labor
Community
Committee
(2004–06),

Membership
Committee
(1996–98),
and
Profes­
sional
Development
Committee
(1994–96).
She


was
a
member
of
the
Business
and
Reference

Services
 Section
 Conference
 Planning
 Com­
mittee
(1990–92
[chair],
2004–06),
Conference

Program
 Coordinating
 Committee
 (1992–95),

and
Development
Committee
(2001–05).


Her
 work
 with
 state
 and
 regional
 asso­
ciations
includes
the
California
Academic
and

Research
 Libraries
 (CARL),
 where
 she
 serves

as
membership
director
on
the
executive
com­
mittee
(2004–present),
and
cochaired
the
2004

Conference
Planning
Committee
(2002–04).
She

was
member­at­large
on
the
California
State
Uni­
versities
 Executive
 Committee
 (2000–02).
 She

served
as
principal
investigator
for
the
American

Association
for
Higher
Education
New
Pathways

II
Grant
Leader
(1999–2001).


Janousek’s
 publications
 include
 co­author,

“The
Benefits
of
Pilot
Testing:
Post­Tenure
Re­
view
at
California
State
University,
Long
Beach,”

Post­Tenure Faculty Review and Renewal Expe­
rienced Voices
(American
Association
of
Higher

Education,
2002);
United States Supreme Court 
Decisions, 1778­1996:
 An Index to Excerpts, 
Reprints, and Discussions, 1980­1995
 (Scare­
crow
Press,
2001);
coauthor,
“A
Five­Step
Plan

to
 Redefine
 Workload:
 An
 Academic
 Library

Case
 in
 Progress,”
 Continuity & Transforma­
tion: The Promise of Confluence, Proceedings of 
the Seventh Association of College and Research 
Libraries (ALA,
1995).


She
received
the
CSU­Long
Beach
Outstand­
ing
Greek
Advisor
Award
(2007);
Betsy
Bradley

Leach
 Leadership
 Award,
 Southern
 California

Lamplighters
(2000),
and
was
elected
to
Beta

Phi
Mu.


Janousek
 received
 her
 masters
 in
 library

science
from
the
University
of
Pittsburgh
and

earned
her
bachelor
of
arts
from
Western
Michi­
gan
University.


ACRL Board of Directors 
Director-at-large: Lisabeth Chabot, College
 Li­
brarian,
Ithaca
College;
William (Bill) N. Nelson, 
Library
Director,
Augusta
State
University.

Director-at-large: Car melita N. Pickett, 
Head
 of
 Collection
 Development
 Opera­
tions,
Texas
A&M
University;
Ann Campion 
Riley,
 Assistant
 Director
 for
 Technical
 Ser­
vices,
University
of
Missouri.


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African American Studies Librarians 
Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Allison Sutton, Psy­
chology
and
Social
Work
Subject
Specialist,

University
of
Illinois
at
Urbana­Champaign;

Joyce King Thornton, Associate
 Dean
 for

Faculty
Services,
Texas
A&M
University.

Secretary: Isabel R. Espinal, Librarian
 for

Afro­American
 Studies,
 University
 of
 Mas­
sachusetts­Amherst.

Member-at-Large: Carol Ritzen Kem,
 Emeri­
tus
Professor,
University
of
Florida;
Sylvia A. 
Nyana, Social
Sciences
Librarian,
Penn
State

University.


Anthropology and Sociology Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Jennifer Nason 
Davis, Interim
 Coordinator,
 Social
 Science

Collections,
University
of
Michigan;
Terrence 
W. Epperson,
 Social
 Sciences
 Librarian,
 The

College
of
New
Jersey.

Secretary: Juliann Couture, Social
Sciences

Librarian,
Arizona
State
University;
Wayne A. 
Sanders, Head,
 Books,
 Rare
 Materials
 and

Music
Catalog
Unit,
University
of
Missouri.

Member-at-Large: Jeffrey A. Knapp,
 Refer­
ence
 and
 Instruction
 Librarian,
 Penn
 State

University; Jenny Bowers, Social
 Sciences

Librarian,
University
of
Denver.


Arts Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Claudia Trevathan 
Covert,
 Readers’
 Services
 Librarian,
 Rhode


Island
School
of
Design.


Secretary: Caroline Theresa Caviness, Li­
brary
Fellow,
Rutgers
University.



Asian, African, and Middle Eastern 
Studies Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Triveni Kuchi, 
Social
 Sciences/Instruction
 and
 South
 Asia
 

Librarian,
Rutgers
University.


Secretar y: Yue Li, Associate
 Librarian,


Florida
State
University.


Member-at-Large: Laverne Page,
Area
Spe­
cialist,
Library
of
Congress.



College Libraries Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Kevin B. Gunn, 

Coordinator
 of
 Religious
 Studies
 and
 Hu­
manities,
The
Catholic
University
of
America;

Christopher Millson­Martula, Director
of
the

Library,
Lynchburg
College.

Secretary: Jane P. Currie, Reference
 Librar­
ian/Bibliographer,
Loyola
University
Chicago;

Douglas K. Lehman, Director
 of
 Thomas

Library,
Wittenberg
University.

Member-at-Large: Melissa Jadlos, Library

Director,
 St.
 John
 Fisher
 College;
 Mary B. 
Heinzman, Library
 Director,
 St.
 Ambrose

University.

Member-at-Large: Mandy Lynne Hackley, 
Business
and
Instruction
Librarian,
Salisbury

University;
 Lisa M. Stillwell,
 Information

Literacy
 Librarian,
 Franklin
 and
 Marshall

College.


Community and Junior College 
Libraries Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: David A. Wright, 
Associate
Dean
of
Learning
Resources,
Surry

Community
College.

Secretary: Elinor Appel, Reference
 and
 In­
struction
Librarian,
North
Seattle
Community

College; Janice Mohlhenrich Lathrop,
Head

of
 Reference,
 Anne
 Arundel
 Community

College.


Distance Learning Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Robin A. Lockerby, 
Assistant
 Director,
 Outreach,
 National
 Uni­
versity
 Library;
 Nan Schichtel,
 Information

Literacy
 and
 Outreach
 Librarian,
 Grand

Rapids
Community
College.

Secretary/Archivist: Angela Lynn Bardeen, 
Social
 Sciences
 Reference
 Librarian,
 Uni­
versity
of
North
Carolina­Chapel
Hill;
Mark 
Horan,
College
Librarian
for
the
College
of

Education,
University
of
Toledo.

Member-at-Large: Elizabeth (Liz) Ann Rich­
ardson, Manager,
Periodical
Services
and
In­
terlibrary
Loan,
Kent
State
University;
Daniel 
Patrick Gall, Coordinator
of
Distance
Educa­
tion
Library
Services,
University
of
Iowa.


Education and Behavioral Sciences 
Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Debora L. Cheney, 

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Head,
 The
 News
 and
 Microforms
 Library,

Pennsylvania
 State
 University;
 Stephanie 
Davis­Kahl,
 Digital
 and
 Media
 Initiatives

Librarian,
Illinois
Wesleyan
University.

Secretary: Kate Leslie Silfen, Social
 Work/

Psychology
 Subject
 Specialist,
 Boston
 Col­
lege; LeRoy LaFleur, Head,
Arlington
Campus

Library,
George
Mason
University.

Member-at-Large: Merrie Davidson, Soci­
ology/Psychology
 Librarian,
 University
 of

Florida;
 Dana Scott Peterman, Research

Librarian
 for
 Education
 and
 Psychology,

University
of
California­Irvine.


Instruction Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Polly D. Boruff­
Jones, Associate
 Dean,
 Indiana
 University­
Purdue
University
Indianapolis;
Christopher 
V. Hollister, Information
 Literacy
 Librarian,


University
at
Buffalo.


Secretary: Leslie A. Warren, Information
Lit­
eracy
Librarian,
Moraine
Valley
Community


College;
Melissa Lee Becher, Reference
Team


Leader,
American
University.


Member-at-Large: Christy Stevens,
 Library


Instruction
 Coordinator,
 Cal
 Poly
 Pomona;


Terrence Bennett, Business/Economics
 Li­
brarian,
The
College
of
New
Jersey.



Law and Political Science Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Chad M. Kahl, 
Coordinator
 for
 Library
 Instruction
 &
 In­
formation
Literacy,
Illinois
State
University;

Chris A. Palazzolo,
 Social
 Sciences
 Team

Leader/Political
 Science
 Librarian,
 Emory

University.

Secretary: David Oldenkamp, International

Studies
Librarian,
Indiana
University­Bloom­
ington.

Member-at-Large: Alyssa Deutschler, Policy

Studies/Global
Studies
Librarian,
University

of
Washington
Bothell;
John J. Hernandez, 
Librarian
for
Politics
and
United
States
Docu­
ments,
Princeton
University.


Literatures in English Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Juliet Marie Kerico, 
Science
and
Health
Sciences
Librarian,
South­
ern
Illinois
University­Edwardsville; Liorah 

Golomb, Assistant
Professor
and
Humanities

Librarian,
Wichita
State
University.

Secretary: David D. Oberhelman, Associ­
ate
 Professor,
 Humanities­Social
 Sciences,

Oklahoma
 State
 University;
 Melissa S. Van 
Vuuren, English
 Librarian,
 James
 Madison

University.

Member-at-Large: Gregory Heald, Head
of

Instructional
Services,
University
of
Northern

Colorado;
Arianne Hartsell­Gundy, Humani­
ties
Librarian,
Miami
University.


Rare Books and Manuscripts Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Henry F. Raine, 
Head
 of
 Library
 Technical
 Services,
 New

York
Historical
Society;
Lois Fischer Black, 
Curator
of
Special
Collections,
Lehigh
Uni­
versity.

Secretary: Eileen M. Heeran,
Assistant
Cura­
tor
of
Rare
Books,
Cornell
University;
Kate S. 
Moriarty, Rare
Book
Catalog
Librarian,
Saint

Louis
University.

Member-at-Large: Alvan Bregman,
 Rare

Book
Collections
Librarian,
University
of
Il­
linois
at
Urbana­Champaign;
Jeffrey Makala, 
Assistant
Special
Collections
Librarian,
Uni­
versity
of
South
Carolina.


Science and Technology Section 
Vi c e - c h a i r / C h a i r- e l e c t :  P e t e r  L a r s e n ,  
Physical
Sciences
and
Engineering
Librarian,

University
 of
 Rhode
 Island;
 Linda L. Eells, 
Head,
Forestry
and
EFW
Libraries,
University

of
Minnesota.

Secretary: Mary Linn Bergstrom,
Head,
Sci­
ence
and
Engineering
Library,
University
of

California­San
Diego; John J. Meier, Science

Librarian,
Pennsylvania
State
University.

Member-at-Large: Katherine O’Clair,
 Life

Sciences
Librarian,
Arizona
State
University;

Matthew R. Marsteller, Head,
Science
Librar­
ies,
Carnegie
Mellon
University.


Slavic and Eastern European Section 
V i c e - c h a i r / C h a i r- e l e c t :  S a n d r a  L e v y ,  
Associate
 Slavic
 Librarian,
 University
 of


Chicago.


Secretary: Heghine Hakobyan, Slavic
Librar­
ian,
University
of
Oregon.



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University Libraries Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Bruce Henson, 
Head,
 Information
 Services
 Department,

Georgia
 Institute
 of
 Technology;
 Kim 
Leeder,
 Reference
 Librarian,
 Boise
 State

University.

Secretary: Betsy Baker,
Library
Educator
and

Consultant;
 Glenda A. Thornton, Director,

Cleveland
State
University
Library.

Member-at-Large: Jamie Kearley,
 Head

of
Reference
and
Instruction,
University
of

Wyoming;
Tinsley E. Silcox, Director
of
Pub­
lic
Services,
Southern
Methodist
University;

Tanner Wray, Director
 of
 Public
 Services,

University
of
Maryland.


Western European Studies Section 
V i c e - c h a i r / C h a i r - e l e c t :  C h a r l e n e  M .  
Kellsey, Faculty
 Director,
 Acquisitions
 De­
partment,
 University
 of
 Colorado­Boulder;

Brian Vetruba,
 Catalog/Subject
 Librarian

for
 German
 and
 Comparative
 Literature,

Washington
University
(St.
Louis).


Secretary: Kate Brooks, Assistant
 Librarian

for
 West
 European
 Studies,
 University
 of

Minnesota; Timothy Shipe, Arts
and
Literature

Bibliographer,
University
of
Iowa.

Member-at-Large: Rowena Griem,
 Ger­
manic
Languages
Cataloger,
Yale
University;

Shawn Martin, Scholarly
 Communication

Librarian,
University
of
Pennsylvania.


Women’s Studies Section 
Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Jane Nichols,
Social

Sciences/Humanities
Librarian,
Oregon
State

University.

Secretary: Heather Lee Tompkins, Reference

and
Instruction
Librarian,
Carleton
College;

Stacy Russo, Instruction
 Librarian/Coordi­
nator
Instruction
and
Reference,
Chapman

University.

Member-at-Large: Chimene Tucker, His­
tory,
Film
and
Media
Librarian,
University
of

California­Santa
 Barbara; Jennifer A. Nace, 
Reference
 and
 Instruction
 Librarian,
 Penn

State­Worthington
Scranton.


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