ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


6 3 0 /C & R L N ew s ■ Ju n e  2001

C o l l e g e  & R e s e a r c h  L i b r a r i e s eNs w

And the winners are . . .

The official results of the 2001 ACRL elections

Mary Reichel Helen H. Spalding

Mary Reichel, university librarian and 
Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor 
at Appalachian State University, is the 64th 
president of ACRL.

As president, Reichel will preside over the 
ACRL Board of Directors and ACRL Executive 
Committee, chair the ACRL Conference Pro­
gram Planning for the 2002 Annual Confer­
ence, and plan ACRL’s major program at the 
conference. She will work with the ALA presi­
dent and other division presidents represent­
ing ACRL both within and outside of ALA.

“It is an exciting time for ACRL and for all 
of us in academic libraries as we face incred­
ible opportunities and challenges. For my 
focus in this upcoming year, I have chosen 
the idea of ‘ACRL: The Learning Community 
for Excellence in Academic Libraries.’

“ACRL is invaluable for growth and learn­
ing fo r lib ra r ia n s, and it is b o th  the 
association’s and individual members’ respon­
sibility to use ACRL for reaching excellence 
in our libraries.

“In very real terms, ACRL has helped me 
to improve as a librarian by the powerful 
sharing and learning that members foster 
whenever they are gathered in either formal 
or informal settings. ACRL as a learning com­
munity prepares academic librarians to deal

with both overarching issues, such as the im­
pact of technology and the rapid changes in 
higher education, as well as the more spe­
cific issues that we face in daily responsibili­
ties.

“Within the learning community theme, 
my presidential goals will center on the im­
portance of information literacy and critical 
thinking; recruitment to our profession; 
broadened member participation, as well as 
valuing diversity among members; and sup­
port of ACRL’s strong legislative and policy 
focus, especially in terms of the enormous 
changes in scholarly communication and in­
tellectual property issues. These goals are 
aligned with ACRL’s strategic plan, which was 
developed with broad participation and seri­
ous thinking about the future.

“ACRL succeeds because of its members 
and their willingness to devote their profes­
sional and personal time to ACRL. My appre­
ciation goes out to all of you who have done 
so much for the association and those of you 
who have volunteered to serve on commit­
tees and in other leadership roles. During 
my vice-presidential year, I have enjoyed get­
ting to know more of you, being involved in 
the appointment process, and attending state 
and regional meetings.

“Thank you again for this opportunity to 
serve as President-Elect and President of 
ACRL. I look forward to this upcoming year 
with great anticipation, especially knowing 
that I will benefit from the vision and hard 
work of past presidents and Boards who have 
so effectively served ACRL.”

From 1986 to 1992 Reichel was assistant 
university librarian for Central Services at Uni­
versity of Arizona; from 1980 to 1986 she was 
head of the reference department in the Pullen 
Library at Georgia State University; and from 
1976 to 1980 she was senior reference librar-



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ian in the Undergraduate Library at SUNY, Buf­
falo.

Reichel has been active in ALA, serving on 
the AAP Joint Committee on Publishing (1997- 
99) and ALA Council (1990-94).

Over the years she has also served in many 
capacities in ACRL, including the Board of 
Directors (1994-98); Planning Committee 
(1993-95); P resid en t’s Program  Planning 
Committee for 1991 chair (1989-91); Instruc­
tio n  Section, v ic e -c h a ir/c h a ir/p a st-c h a ir 
(1984-87); Appointments and Nominations 
Committee chair (1984-85).

She has also served on several state and 
re g io n a l library a sso c ia tio n s, in clu d in g  
SOLINET Board of Directors (1994-98), secre­
tary (1995-96), and chair 0996-97), and Ari­
zona State Library Association Conference Pro­
gram Committee (1990-91).

She has been a member of Phi Delta Kappa 
since 1993-

In 1999, Reichel was honored with the ACRL 
Instruction Section’s Miriam Dudley Instruc­
tion Librarian of the Year Award.

Her publications include “Publish or Per­
ish: A Dilemma for Academic Librarians?,” co­
authored with W. Bede Mitchell (College & 
Research Libraries, May 1999); “Performance 
Evaluation: A Deadly Disease?” (Journal o f Aca­
demic Librarianship, July 1994), coauthored 
with Rao Aluri; and Conceptional Frameworks 
fo r  Bibliographic Education (1987), coedited 
with Mary Ann Ramey.

H e le n  H. Spalding, associate director of 
libraries at the University of Missouri-Kansas 
City (UMKC), has been elected vice-president/ 
president-elect of ACRL.

“What a special privilege to look foiward 
to providing leadership with talented col­
leagues to an organization that is playing such 
a key role in providing professional devel­
opment for academic librarians, and in im­
proving teaching and learning, and the cre­
ation, preservation, and transfer of knowl­
edge. The exceptional skill and creativity of 
the ACRL members will guarantee continu­
ing success in advancing equitable and open 
access to information, intellectual freedom, 
conservation and preseivation of knowledge, 
scholarly communication and research, pro­
fessional development, and education.

“Within ACRL and the institutions where 
they work, our members are facing changing

ACRL is invaluable for growth and 
learning for librarians, and it is 
both the association's and 
individual members' responsibility 
to use ACRL for reaching 
excellence in our libraries.

—M ary Reichel

environments, institutional expectations, and 
library user needs. We can build on a strong 
history of partnering with others in higher 
education and in other types of libraries to 
address the new  realities w e face.

“I hope w e can especially enhance greater 
visibility of the value of academic librarians 
to the achievement of the goals of our library 
users and partners, provide academic librar­
ian mentors for Spectrum Scholars, partici­
pate in changing and improving library school 
education and recruitment to the profession, 
and examine how ACRL and ALA could be 
strengthened to be better positioned for a 
different future.”

Spalding has been associate director of 
libraries at the University of Missouri-Kansas 
City (UMKC) since 1985- Her previous posi­
tions included UMKC head of Technical Ser­
vices (1979-85), head of Serials Records, and 
head of Serials Cataloging at Iowa State Uni­
versity (1974-79).

Within ACRL, Spalding has served on the 
Board of D irectors Executive Committee 
(1994-96, 1997-01); Budget and Finance 
Committee (1986-91, 1992-96), chair (1994- 
96); Colleagues Committee chair (1992-93); 
Seventh National Conference Contributed 
Papers Subcommittee (1993-95); Appoint­
m ents Committee chair (1996-97); ACRL 
Councilor (1997-01); and the Tenth National 
Conference Volunteer Committee (2000-01).

In addition to serving on ALA Council as 
the ACRL Councilor, Spalding’s seivice in ALA 
includes membership on the Budget Analy­
sis and Review Committee (BARC) (1998-02); 
Library Education Assembly (1986-87); Search 
Committee for Choice Editor/Publisher (1994— 
95); LAMA LOMS Planning and Evaluation of 
Library Seivices Committee (1982-86); LAMA 
PAS Staff Development Committee (1982-86); 
chair, editor of Z/L1L4 Newsletter “Staff Devel-



632 /C&RL News ■ June 2001

We can build on a strong history of 
partnering with others in higher 
education and in other types of 
libraries to address the new 
realities we face.

—Helen H. Spalding

opm ent” column (1984-86); LAMA Special 
Conferences and Programs Committee (1988- 
92); LITA Education Committee (1983-87) 
(Chair, 1985-87); and LITA/CLSI Scholarship 
Jury (1984-85, 1986-87). O ther professional 
service includes Missouri Library Association 
committees; OCLC Users Council Vice Presi­
dent (1982-83); Editorial Boards of Journal 
o f Academ ic Librarianship (1986-99), and 
Portal: Libraries a n d  the A cadem y (1999— 
present).

Spalding was selected a Council of Library 
Resources Academic Library M anagement 
Intern (1983-84) and a UCLA Senior Fellow 
(1989). Her publications have focused on pro­
fessional development and implementation 
of automated systems, including: “A Com­
puter-Produced Serials Book Catalog with 
Automatically G enerated In d ex es,” LRTS, 
1980; “A Queueing Study of Public Catalog 
Use,” C&RL, 1981 (coauthored); “Involving 
Faculty and Students in the Selection of a 
Catalog Alternative,” JAL, 1983 (coauthored); 
“Recent Developments in Library Technical 
Services, and the Implications for Access to 
Scholarly Information,” Issues in Access to 
Scholarly Information, 1985; “Behind Bars in 
the Library: Northwestern University Library’s 
Bar Code Project,” ITAL, 1987 (coauthored); 
“The D eveloping Reference Librarian: An 
Administrative Perspective,” The R e f Libn, 
1990; “Only Change is Constant: Three Li­
brarians Consider What Their Jobs Will Be 
Like in Five Years,” C&RL News, 1998 (co­
authored).

ACRL
Vice P resident/President-Elect: Elaine K.

Didier (1,002); H e le n  H. Spalding (1,101).

ACRL Board
Member-at-Large (3-year term): Carolyn A.

Sheehy (966); P a m e la  S n e ls o n  (1,000).

M em ber-at-Large (4 -year term , 1 to be 
elected): P atricia A. K reitz (728); Paula 
C. Murphy (568); Alison Scott Ricker 
(614).

Division councilor: Debra L. Gilchrist (925); 
P atricia A n n  W and (1077).

African-American Studies Librarians 
(AFAS)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: R aquel V. C ogell (32); 

Bennie P. Robinson (19).
Secretary (1-year term): Lisa P illo w  (45); 

Write-In Candidate (1).
Member-at-Large (1-year term): G race Jack­

so n -B r o w n  (36); Itibari M. Zulu (16).

Anthropology and Sociology (ANSS)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: R o y ce D. Kurtz (53); 

William J. Wheeler (45).
Secretaiy (2-year term): Wade R. Kotter (41); 

K ath arin e A. W h itso n  (57).
Member-at-Large: Erin C. D a ix  (56); Stephen 

O. Fowlkes (42).

Arts
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Henry J. DuBois (39); 

A n n  M. L in d ell (69).
Secretaiy (2-year term): Sylvia Y. Curtis (54); 

Eric A. Kidwell (51).

Asian, African, and Middle Eastern 
(AAMES)

Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Jung-R an Park (25); 
R.N. Sharma (20).

Secretary (1-year term): H id eyu k i M orim oto 
(37); Write-In Candidate (0).

M ember-at-Large (1-year term): Sarah S. 
Elman (16); B in h  P. Le (26).

College Libraries (CLS)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Mark E. C ain (213); 

Charles M. Getchell Jr. (195).
Secretary (1-year term): A lice H. B ahr (241); 

Dena M. Hutto (148).
Member-at-Large (2-year term): L isabeth A. 

C h ab ot (243); Lewis R. Miller (153).

Community and Junior College 
Libraries (CJCLS)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: C ynthia K. S te in h o ff 
(103); A. Jules Tate (90).

Secretary (1-year term): M arianne C. R ou gh  
(96); Lisa A. Beinhoff (95).



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Distance Learning (DLS)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: M a r y h e le n  J o n e s  

(174); Barbara J. Wittkopf (103).
Secretary/Archivist (2-year terra): Erin K. 

McCaffrey (107); R e b e c c a  E. S e d a m  
(148).

Member-at-Large (2-year term): M arissa R. 
C ach ero (138); Marie A. Kascus (119).

Education and Behavioral Science 
(EBSS)

V ice-C hair/C hair-elect: K a t h e r in e  A n n  
C orby (109); Allison G. Kaplan (53).

Secretary (2-year term): Jeannie Kamerman 
(52); J u d ith  A. W alker (104).

M em ber-at-L arge (2 -y ear term ): J e n n i e  
V e r  S t e e g  (144); W rite-In C an d id ate 
(4).

Instruction (IS)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Craig Gibson (261); 

Trudi E. J a c o b s o n  (456).
S ecretary (1 -y ear term ): N a n c y  H o d g e  

D ew a ld  (4l6); Ross T. LaBaugh (269). 
Member-at-Large (3-year term): Jeffrey S. 

Bullington (318); Su san  M iller (367).

Law and Political Science (LPSS)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Madison Mosley (37); 

Barbara P. N o r e lli (78).
Secretary (2-year term): Thomas Louis Mann 

(50); C h ristin e A n g o lia  ( 6 l ) .
Member-at-Large (2-year term): K a th leen  C. 

F ou n tain  (68); Dorothy K. Marcinko (43).

Literatures in English Section 
Literature (LES)

A doption of P roposed Bylaws: Y es (79) 
ADOPTED; No (1).

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Julie M. Still (34); 
M ich a ely n  B u rn ette (49).

Secretary (1-year term): S teven  R. H arris (44); 
Susanna Van Sant (35).

Member-at-Large (1-year term): Kathleen A. 
Johnson (30); N a n cy  J. K u sh ig ia n  (50).

Rare Books and Manuscripts (RBMS)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Juliet McLaren (137); 

D a n ie l J. S live (159)
Secretary (2-year term): C y n th ia  A. B urgess 

(259); Write-In Candidate (4).
Member-at-Large (3-year term): K a th e r in e  

R eagan (156); Diane Shaw (137).



634 IC&RL News ■ June 2001

Science and Technology (STS)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: William M. Baer (109);

B a r to n  M. L e s s in  (188). 
Secretary/Member-at-Large (2-yearterm): N ancy

J. Butkovich (184); Teresa U. Berry (111).

Slavic and East European (SEES)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Nadia Zilper (17);

J a red  S. I n g e r s o ll (26).
Member-at-Large (1-year term): Diana Greene

(15); M arek Srok a (28).

University Libraries (ULS)
Adoption of Proposed Bylaws (Article IV) 

No (28); Y es (9 1 1 )  ADOPTED
Adoption of P roposed Bylaws (Article V) 

No (32); Y es (8 4 6 )  ADOPTED 
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Frank Andraia (398);

L o u ise S. S h e r b y  (507).
Secretary (2-year term): Mary H. M unroe

(358); B arbara E. K e m p  (470).

M em ber-at-L arge (3 -y e a r term , 2 to be 
elected): B e ts y  B a k er (535); Phelix B. 
Hanible (297); D o r is  A n n  S w e e t (381); 
Linda K. Terhaar (372).

Western European Specialists (WESS)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: G o rd o n  B. A n d e r so n  

(57); Beau David Case (52).
Secretary (1-year term): Bruce W. Swann (39); 

S arah  G. W e n z e l (68).
Member-at-Large (1-year term): Richard R. 

Ring (37); Sam  D u n la p  (71).

Women's Studies (WSS)
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: D o lo r e s  F id is h u n  

(100); Write-In Candidate (2).
S e c r e t a r y  ( 1 - y e a r  t e r m ) :  S u e  A . 

M c F a d d e n  (99); W rite-In C a n d id a te  
(0).

M em ber-at-Large (1 -year term ): Ju lie Ann 
N a ch m an  (49); B r it a  S e r v a e s  (55). ■

( “New librarians . . c o n t.fro m  p a g e 600)

committee has to judge the excellence of your 
written communication skills, or lack thereof. 
And for heaven’s sake, please do not list as 
references people w ho cannot b e contacted 
(library school professors during the summer, 
for example) or people w ho have not given 
you permission to use their names.

• J o in  ALA a n d  N e w  M e m b e r s R o u n d  
T ab le. Take advantage of the student m em ­
bership rate, and plan on attending a Mid­
w inter or Annual Conference before or w hen

you graduate. The Placement Center is one 
of the m ost efficient and effective places to 
m eet potential employers, and m any o f our 
num ber have b ee n  hired on the spot. While 
y o u ’re there, stop by New Members Round 
Table. You’ll find y o u ’re not alone, in so 
m any ways. And the socials are a blast— 
regalia optional.

Note
1. Philip C. Howze, “10 Job-H unting Tips 

for New Librarians, ”C&RL News (July/Au­
gust 1997). ■