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During the 2014 ALA Annual Conference Meet-
ing in Las Vegas, the ACRL Board of Directors 
met on June 28 and 30. The Board met with 
the leaders of its three goal area committees—
Value of Academic Libraries, Student Learning 
and Information Literacy, and Research and 
Scholarly Environment—to assess progress 
on the Plan for Excellence. With feedback 
from the Board, these committees will final-
ize their reports and develop their Work Plan 
for 2014–15.

The Board was also updated on work to 
date by representatives of two ACRL Task 

Enabling programs and services
Goal Area: Advocacy—Strategic goal areas will be supported by financial and 
operational planning, and will guide the development and implementation of 
programs and services that target education, advocacy, and member engagement.

ACRL Board of Directors’ actions,  
June 2014
Highlights of the Board’s Annual Conference meetings

Forces: the Information Literacy Competency 
Standards for Higher Education Task Force 
and the Intersections of Information Literacy 
and Scholarly Communication Task Force. 

The Board also had the opportunity to 
engage with the director of ALA’s new Center 
for the Future of Libraries. Board members 
whose service ended at the close of the 2014 
ALA Annual Conference, Steven J. Bell, Mark 
Emmons, and Mary Ann Sheble were recog-
nized and thanked for their service. 

The ACRL Board of Directors also took 
the following actions:

Enabling programs and services
Goal Area: Member Engagement—Strategic goal areas will be supported by financial 
and operational planning, and will guide the development and implementation of 
programs and services that target education, advocacy, and member engagement.

• Confirmed the virtual vote appointing a 
new RBM Editor, Jennifer K. Sheehan.

• Established a Digital Badge Division-
Level Interest Group to provide a forum for 
discussion and the exchange of ideas related 
to digital badges.

• Dissolved the ACRL Marketing Discus-

sion Group after the establishment of the 
Library Marketing and Outreach Interest 
Group during the Spring Executive Commit-
tee Meeting on April 2, 2014.

• Approved the addition of LPSS to the 
Social Science Librarians IFLA committee 
candidate nominations process.

• Confirmed the virtual vote approving  
the 2014 Legislative Agenda. The document 
was issued prior to National Library Legisla-

tion Day on May 5-6, 2014. (www.ala.org 
/acrl/issues/washingtonwatch/legagenda)



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ACRL Board 2013–14 (l to r): (back) Mark Emmons, Susan Barnes Whyte, Julie Ann  
Garrison, Julia M. Gelfand, Marilyn Nabua Ochoa, Irene M. H. Herold, Mary Ann Sheble, 
Loretta R. Parham; (front) Cynthia K. Steinhoff, Karen Williams, Trevor A. Dawes, Steven 
J. Bell, Douglas K. Lehman, Mary Ellen K. Davis.

• Approved the selection of Seattle, 
Washington, for the site for the ACRL  

Enabling programs and services
Goal Area: Education—Strategic goal areas will be supported by financial and 
operational planning, and will guide the development and implementation of 
programs and services that target education, advocacy, and member engagement.

Conference, Spring 2021.

ACRL Board 2014–15 (l to r): (back) Julie Ann Garrison, Loretta R. Parham, Mary Ellen K. Davis, Susan 
Barnes Whyte, Irene M. H. Herold, Kim Leeder, John P. Culshaw, Julia M. Gelfand, (front) Cynthia K. 
Steinhoff, Karen Williams, Ann Campion Riley, Trevor A. Dawes, Douglas K. Lehman.



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a bold vision, unity of purpose, and flexibil-
ity, Public Services staff continues to work 
collaboratively to provide the best possible 
service to the NUL community.

Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank the members of the 
ISTF for their excellent work, which resulted 
in the final report which is summarized in this 
article. The authors also wish to thank Marianne 
Ryan, associate university librarian for public 
services, for her comments on this article; Mary 
Bradley and Sue Oldenburg for their photos; 
and the members of the Northwestern University 
Library Public Services Division for their support 
of the work of ISTF.

Notes
1. Task Force members were Steven Ad-

ams, Life Sciences librarian; Scott Garton, 
head of the Branch and Off-Campus Services 
Department; Qiana Johnson, distance learning 
librarian; Jason Kruse, undergraduate services 
librarian; William McHugh, principal bibliogra-
pher, coordinator for General/Interdisciplinary 

Studies, and reference collection management 
librarian; Geoffrey Swindells, head of the 
User Experience Department; Greta Zimmer, 
evening/weekend circulation supervisor. 
Harriet Lightman, head of the Research and 
Information Services Department, chaired the 
Task Force.

2. Kay Vyhnanek and Christy Zlatos, 
SPEC Kit 327: Reconfiguring Service Delivery 
(Washington, DC: Association of Research 
Libraries, 2011). 

3. A working group, known as the ISTF 
Working Group, was formed after the original 
group’s work was complete. The Working 
Group’s purpose is to develop implementa-
tion plans for the original task force’s recom-
mendations.

4. Northwestern’s Schaffner Library, located 
on the Chicago campus, is a nonsubject spe-
cific branch library.

5. Service points not in the Public Services 
Division included those which came under 
the purview of the Special Libraries Division, 
as well as the Entry/Exit and Security 
desks. 

(“Reimaging or revisioning,” cont. from page 
448)

Enabling programs and services
Goal Area: Operations—Strategic goal areas will be supported by financial and 
operational planning, and will guide the development and implementation of 
programs and services that target education, advocacy, and member engagement.

• Approved the minutes of the ACRL 
Board of Directors Meetings I and II held at 
the 2014 Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia.

• Approved the FY15 budget as presented:
o Total ACRL revenues of $4,454,395
o Total ACRL expenses of $4,576,550
 Net ACRL revenues of ($122,155)
o Total CHOICE revenues of $3,000,891
o Total CHOICE expenses of $3,233,565
 Net CHOICE revenues of ($232,674)

• Approved the recommendation to in-
crease dues by $2 for regular members and 
$1 for student and retired members accord-
ing to the 2.9% increase in the HEPI index 
as allowed by ACRL bylaws. The FY15 rates 
will be:

o Personal members: $60
o Student members: $39
o Retired members: $39