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ACRL Board of Directors’ actions, 
January 2009 
Highlights of the Board’s Midwinter meetings 

During the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting met on January 24 and 27 and took the fol­in Denver, the ACRL Board of Directors lowing actions. 
Strategic Area: Higher Education and Research 
Goal Area: Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity—ACRL and its members are 
recognized internationally as authorities on the integration of content, tools, and services 
into the evolving workflows of scholars and creators at all stages from initial discovery to 
individuals organizing their own resources to the creation, sharing, publication, aggrega­
tion, and preservation processes, including associated intellectual property issues. 

A p p r ove d  t h e  r e v i s i o n  s u b m i t t e d  f o r  
“Guidelines for Curriculum Materials Cen­
ters” (www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl 
/standards/guidelinescurriculum.cfm). 

Confirmed the ACRL Board of  Directors’ 
e­mail vote of December 5–19, 2008, that ap­
proved ACRL’s sponsorship of a conference 
session at the Public Knowledge Project’s 
second conference. 

Goal Area: Advocacy—ACRL has greater influence on the higher education and research en­
vironment. 

Endorsed the Code of  Best Practices 
in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education 
(www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources 
/publications/code_for_media_literacy 
_education/). 

Confirmed the ACRL Board of Directors’ e-

mail vote of November 10–17, 2008, that 
approved ACRL’s partnership with the 
American Planning Association to cel­
ebrate the centennial of the planning 
movement by compiling a list of the best, 
essential planning books published in the 
last century. 

Strategic Area: The Profession 
Goal Area: Continuous Learning—ACRL provides continuous learning opportunities en­
abling members to strengthen their effectiveness and achieve recognition as valued contribu­
tors to their academic and research communities. 

Approved the Budget and Finance Com- from the Friends Fund for National Confer­
mittee’s recommendation to award $8,625 ence Scholarships. 

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Goal Area: Leadership—ACRL members achieve recognition as leaders and advocates for 
academic and research libraries. ACRL recruits and develops the next generation of academic 
and research library leaders. 

Confirmed the ACRL Board of  Directors’ Standards for Libraries in Higher Education 
e­mail vote of December 30, 2008–January Review Task Force. 
7, 2009, that approved the creation of the 

Strategic Area: The Association 
Goal Area: Membership—ACRL’s membership growth builds on retaining core member­
ship while recruiting from new and diverse communities. 

The Board approved expanding the di- clude a one­year term of vice­chair in addi­
vision­level committee appointments to in­ tion to the one­year term of chair.  

Goal Area: Organizational Vitality and Effectiveness—ACRL will have the fi scal resources, 
staff expertise, and organizational structure to advance the association’s strategic plan by de­
ploying data­driven decision making to drive entrepreneurial activities. 

Approved the minutes of  the ACRL 
Board of Directors meeting held at the 2008 
ALA Annual Conference (www.ala.org/ala 
/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/board/index. 
cfm). 

Approved the minutes of  the ACRL Board 
of Directors meeting held by teleconferenc­

es November 20, 2008, December 16, 2008, 
December 19, 2008, and January 5, 2009. 

Dissolved the Information Literacy Advi-
sory Committee and the Institute for Informa­
tion Literacy Executive Committee. Ed. note: 
The work of these groups will be carried out 
by the new Information Literacy Coordinating 
Committee. 

(“Beautiful and useful . . . ,” continued from page 171) 

Conclusion 
The creation of a course that links library 
collections and artifacts as a central theme 
to generate critical thinking and reinforce 
principles of information literacy resulted 
in a successful partnership that combined 
the unique subject expertise of both librar­
ian and art historian. 

Not only did this course provide students 
with a new way of looking at books as cul­
tural objects, but also raised the profi le of 
the library as an active center for teaching 
and learning. 

It provided the opportunity to advocate 
the library and collections not as passive re­
positories of information, but as active centers 

of learning; bringing our collections alive and 
promoting new ways of seeing. 

Notes 
1. This phrase was first used by Morris 

in the lecture “The Beauty of Life,” before 
the Birmingham Society of Arts and School 
February 19, 1880, and was later published 
in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures 
Delivered in Birmingham, London, and 
Nottingham, 1878-1881 (London Ellis & 
White, 1882). 

2. Kevin Grace, personal correspon­
dence with Jane Carlin, June 7, 2008. 

3. Debbie Brawn, personal correspon­
dence with Jane Carlin, June 12, 2008. 

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