ACRL needs your help to identify individuals that are deserving of this prestigious award.

Do you have a colleague or coworker, boss, or librarian on your staff that you would like to recognize for their contributions to the profession?

An award of $5,000 will be presented by YBP Library Services.

The Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award committee is currently accepting nominations, and the deadline is December 4, 2009.

More information about the award can be found in the Awards section of the ACRL Web site, http://www.ala.org/acrl

Direct Link: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/awards/acrllibrarian.cfm

Guest edited by ARL’s Karla Hahn, this special issue of RLI focuses on the evolution of new roles and institutional strategies for liaison work. Five articles identify emerging roles and consider the challenges of developing corresponding liaison capabilities. Authors from Minnesota, Berkeley, MIT, British Columbia, and NYU each reflect on their experiences and offer insights to fellow travelers mapping out their own routes to a new vision of liaison work. The full table of contents with links to the articles follows.

“Introduction: Positioning Liaison Librarians for the 21st Century” [PDF]
Karla Hahn, Assistant Executive Director, Research, Teaching, and Learning, ARL

“A Framework for Articulating New Library Roles” [PDF]
Karen Williams, Associate University Librarian for Academic Programs, University of Minnesota Libraries

“Amplifying the Educational Role of Librarians” [PDF]
Elizabeth A. Dupuis, Associate University Librarian for Educational Initiatives and Director of the Doe/Moffitt Libraries, University of California, Berkeley

“The Last Mile: The Liaison Role in Curating Science and Engineering Research Data” [PDF]
Tracy Gabridge, Co-Head, Engineering and Science Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

“Scholarly Communications: Planning for the Integration of Liaison Librarian Roles” [PDF]
Joy Kirchner, Librarian for Collections, Licensing and Digital Scholarship, University of British Columbia Library

“New Roles of Liaison Librarians: A Liaison’s Perspective” [PDF]
Kara M. Whatley, Life Sciences Librarian and Head of the Coles Science Center, New York University

Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC (RLI) is a freely available, online-only publication released six times per year by the Association of Research Libraries. RLI focuses on the major issues that affect the ability of research libraries to meet the academic and research needs of the diverse communities they serve.

For more detailed responses, you’re welcome to view our full poll results on SurveyMonkey.

Looks like Academic Outreach is the one to start with, eh? Feel free to contact me directly if you have thoughts about this, or comment below.

Summary from the Library Beat website:
Sarah talks with recent MLIS graduate Kim Leeder, Reference & Instruction Librarian at Boise State University and Vice Chair for the University Libraries Section of ACRL . Kim shares her experiences as a new librarian working in a long-standing library association, and talks about what traditional library organizations have to offer new librarians, and what new librarians have to offer in return. They also talk about how Kim established herself so quickly in her new profession and what drew her to ACRL.

In the next year ULS will be initiating several new committees in order to create more opportunities for ULS members to be active in the section while also expanding ULS’s contributions to university librarianship.

What will those committees be? We want you to tell us.

Vote now! via our one-question Surveymonkey poll. ]]> http://www.acrl.ala.org/ULS/?feed=rss2&p=47 0 http://www.acrl.ala.org/ULS/?p=44 http://www.acrl.ala.org/ULS/?p=44#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:39:47 +0000 kleeder http://www.acrl.ala.org/ULS/?p=44 The deadline for submitting applications to the ALA Emerging Leaders program has been EXTENDED to August 7, 2009.  The original due date was this Friday, July 31, 2009.

Details on the program can be found on the ALA web site at http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/hrdr/abouthrdr/emergingleaders.cfm.

ULS will be sponsoring an Emerging Leader this year, so get those apps in!

The President-elect will serve a three-year term: as President-elect in 2010-2011, as President in 2011-2012, and as Immediate Past President in 2012-2013.

The Treasurer will serve a three-year term, beginning after the 2010 ALA Annual Conference and ending at the adjournment of the 2013 Annual Conference.

The Councilors-at-large will serve three-year terms, beginning after the 2010 ALA Annual Conference and ending at the adjournment of the 2013 Annual Conference.

The ALA President, Treasurer, and Councilors also serve in corresponding roles in the ALA-Allied Professional Association [ALA-APA].  Individuals considering ALA-APA office are encouraged to consult with their employer regarding any restrictions regarding lobbying activities or service on the governing body of a 501(c)6 organization.

Members who wish to make nominations should submit the following information: nominee name; present position; institution; address; telephone; fax; and e-mail address.  Self-nominations are encouraged.  All potential nominees must complete the Potential Candidate Biographical Form available at https://cs.ala.org/potentialcandidates/. The database will be available June 1, 2009. Nominations and forms must be received no later than September 1, 2009.

Nominations may be sent to any member of the 2010 ALA Nominating Committee.  Committee members are:  Nancy Allen, Chair, Dean and Director, University of Denver, Penrose Library. nancy.allen@du.edu; Kathleen E. Bethel, African American Studies Librarian, Northwestern University. kbethel@northwestern.edu; Wayne Bivens-Tatum, Librarian, Princeton University Libraries. rbivens@princeton.edu; Sarah I. Flowers, Morgan Hill, CA. sarahflowers@charter.net; G. Victor Johnson, President, Board of Library Trustees, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Arlington Heights, IL. gvicjohnson@sbcglobal.net; Haipeng Li, Associate Director, John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, NJ, haipeng4cala@gmail.com; Patricia Montiel Overall, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ. overlall@u.arizona.edu; Janice M. Rice, Outreach Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Madison. jrice@library.wisc.edu; Kathryn M. Toon, Hawkins, TX. kmtoon@juno.com.

To encourage diversity and leadership development, the Committee will refrain from nominating any current Councilors for election to another term.  However, the Committee encourages all current Councilors who wish to continue their service to the Association to file as petition candidates.  Petitions will be available from Lois Ann Gregory-Wood, Council Secretariat, ALA, 50 E. Huron, Chicago, IL 60611, Email: lgregory@ala.org, or during the 2009 Annual Conference or 2010 Midwinter Meeting.  Petitions require 25 signatures for names to be included on the 2010 ballot.

As you plan your ALA calendar, consider the ACRL-ULS program, Millennials in Graduate School:  How do We Support them? on Saturday, July 11^th from 1:30 to 3:00 PM in McCormick Place West, W-196c. Millennials, those born between 1982 and 1994, are entering graduate school and doctoral programs. Surveys suggest that these students use libraries heavily and are less than satisfied with the experience. What do these digital multi-taskers want and expect?  How can university libraries support their needs?

This program will bring together a panel of speakers to discuss trends in graduate education, the expectations of this cohort and the successful approaches that will engage them. Speakers include Susan Gibbons from University of Rochester, reporting on her latest ethnographic study of graduate students, Joan K. Lippincott from the Coalition for Networked information and Barbara Dewey, Dean of Libraries at the University of Tennessee. The program will also feature a video montage of graduate students making their case to librarians. All attendees will receive a chance to win an iPod Touch!

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/annual09.cfm

They are:

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Kim Leeder

Secretary: Glenda Thornton

Members-At-Large: Tinsley Silcox and Tanner Wray

Winners have been added to the official 2009-10 rosters at
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/resources/leadership/sectioncommittee1.cfm.