C&RL News January 2020 22 ACRL candidates for 2020 A look at who’s running Lynn Silipigni Connaway is the direc- tor of library trends and user research at OCLC Research, a position she has held since 2018. Prior to this, Connaway served as senior research scientist and di- rector of user research (2016-18), senior research scientist (2007-16), and consult- ing research scientist III (2003-07), all at OCLC Research. She was vice-president of research and library systems at NetLibrary (1999-2003), and director and associate clinical professor of the Library and Infor- mation Services Department at the Uni- versity of Denver (1995-99). She served as assistant professor in the School of Library and Informational Science at the University of Missouri (1993-95), and as head of technical services and cataloging at Mesa State College Library (1984-89). During her 21 years of ACRL member- ship, Connaway has served on various ACRL committees, including vice-chair/ chair of the Value of Academic Libraries Committee (2013-15), vice-chair/chair of the Research Planning and Review Com- mittee (2010-12), member of the ACRL 2011 Conference Committee (2009-11), cochair of the ACRL 2011 Conference Invited Pa- pers Committee (2009-11), cochair of the President’s Program Committee (2004-06), member of the ACRL 12th National Confer- ence Committee (2003-05), and chair of the ACRL 12th National Conference Innova- tions Committee (2003-05). Her other activities within ALA in- clude serving on LRRT as vice-chair/chair (2011-13), member-at-large (2000-03), and program chair (1997-98). She was an ALA Chapter Councilor (2001-03), a represen- tative of the Colorado Library Association on the Accreditation Task Force (2016), on the ALA/ORS Research Series Editorial Board (2009-12), and the ALA Committee on Education (1997-99, 2010-11) where she was chair (2009-10). She was a member of the ALA Committee on Accreditation (2005- 09), the eBook Task Force (2001-03), and the Loleta Fyan Grant Jury (1996-97). Her work within ALCTS includes serving on the Library Resources and Technical Services Editorial Board (2001-05), the Media Re- sources Committee (1999-2003), the Mar- garet Mann Citation Committee (1993-94), the Education for Collection Development Committee (1993-94), and the Committee on Education, Training and Recruitment for Cataloging (1994-99). Connaway has been a member of the Association for Information Science and Lynn Silipigni Connaway Julie Garrison January 2020 23 C&RL News Technology (ASIS&T) since 1990, having served on the Board of Directors as past- president, president, and president-elect (2016-18) and director (2013-15). She was a member of the ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award Jury, (2019), the Budget and Finance Committee (2016- 18), chair of the Nominations Committee (2018), and cochair of the Annual Meeting Program Committee (2011), and a member of the Best Information Science Book Jury (1997). Her work with the Association of Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE) includes serving as a member of the De- velopment and Advancement Committee (2007-10), the Professional Contribution to LIS Education Award (2008), chair of the OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Program (2005- 18), convener of the New Faculty Special Interest Group (1994-95), convener of the Technical Services Education Special Interest Group (1994), and a member of the Membership Committee (1993-95). She also served as secretary for the Technical Services and Automation Division (1988- 89), and the Colorado Library Association, College and University Division (1987-88). Connaway was a member of the IFLA Li- brary Theory and Research Section (2007- 11, 2011-15) representing the ALA LRRT, and served as president at the Mesa College Office Personnel Association (1987-88). She was the recipient of the ALISE/ ProQuest Methodology Paper Competition (2019), the ASIS&T Watson David Award for Service (2019), and the ALISE Service Award (2017). She was a visiting scholar at the University of Copenhagen School of Information Studies (2014) and was Chair of Excellence, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Departmento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación (2014). She was a recipient of the ALISE Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition (2013), the RUSA Ref- erence Service Press Award (2012), and the Gold Chalk Award at the University of Missouri-Columbia (1994). Connaway was a member of the Allen Smith Visiting Schol- ars Program at Simmons College (2012) and was a visiting researcher at the Department of Information Studies, University of Shef- field, England (2009). Her publications include coauthor- ing “Authority, context, and containers: Student perceptions and judgments when using Google for school work,” IFLA World Library and Information Congress Conference paper (2019); Academic library impact: Improving practice and essential areas to research (Chicago: ACRL, 2017); and “If it is too inconvenient I’m not going after it: Convenience as a critical factor in information-seeking behaviors,” Library & Infor mation Science Research 33(3), 179-190 (selected for inclusion in the ALA Reference Research Review: 2011). Julie Garrison is dean of university li- braries at Western Michigan University, a position she has held since 2016. Pri- or to this, Garrison served as associate dean, research and instructional services at Grand Valley State University Libraries (2009-16); director of off-campus library services at Central Michigan University (2003-07); and as assistant/associate di- rector of public services at Duke Univer- sity Medical Center Library (2000-02). During her 17 years of ACRL member- ship, Garrison has served as director- at-large on the ACRL Board of Directors (2012-16) and was a member of the ACRL Project Outcome Task Force (2017-18), the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education Task Force (2017) and the ACRL Research Coordinating Committee (2008- 11), where she also served as chair (2010- 11). She served as a member of the ACRL/ DLS Guidelines Committee (2005-07), and the ACRL/DLS Web Committee (2003-07), where she also served as chair (2004-07). Her experience within LLAMA includes serving as a member of the LLAMA Library Organization and Management Section Financial Committee (2008-10) and the LLAMA Buildings and Equipment Section C&RL News January 2020 24 Directory of Library Building Projects (2008-09). Garrison’s past work with state, re- gional, and other national associations includes being a member of the portal: Libraries and the Academy Editorial Board since 2015 and serving as an accredita- tion commission member of the Council on Interior Design Accreditation (2011- 16). She has held numerous positions within the Michigan Academic Library Association including serving as chair of the Advocacy Committee (2017-19) and Administration Section (2016-17). She also served as member-at-large of the Michigan Library Association (MLA) Board of Direc- tors (2011-14) and was chair of the MLA ACRL Task Force (2011). Her other work with MLA includes serving as cochair of Pre-Conference Programs (2005-06) and Annual Meeting Committees (2004-06). Garrison was a member of the Execu- tive Program Advisory Board of the Elev- enth (2003-04), Twelfth (2004-06), and Thirteenth (2006-08) Off-Campus Library Services. Notable work with the Medical Library Association includes being a member of the CORE Task Force (2003-04), the Online Education Task Force (2001-03), the Fixed Meeting Schedule Task Force (2001-02), and the 2001 National Program Committee (1999-2001). She also served as a delegate to the ALA Congress on Professional Education (April 30-May 1, 1999), and was on the Continuing Educa- tion Committee (1997-2003) serving as chair designate (2001-02), and then chair (2002-03). She served as cochair of the Learning Center Committee, Education Media and Technologies Section (1997), Annual Meetings (1998) and part of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Publication Com- mittee October (1996-98) before moving to chair (1997-98). During Garrison’s tenure at Grand Valley State University Libraries, they received the Excellence in Academic Li- braries Award in the university category (2012). Over the course of her career, she codeveloped one of the first online evidence-based medicine continuing education courses for medical librarians, and planned and executed two successful Off-Campus Library Services Conferences, while serving as the director of OCLS at Central Michigan University. She also planned the inaugural “Re-Think It Con- ference,” while working at Grand Valley State University. She served on the core project team that developed the vision and completed the planning for the new Mary Idema Pew Library at Grand Val- ley State University, and led the Western Michigan University Libraries faculty and staff through a successful reorganization process designed to remove redundan- cies, streamline and align workflows, and improve overall efficiencies. Working within professional associa- tions, she is proud to have helped advance the Medical Library Association’s efforts in delivering online continuing education. As an ACRL Board member, she served as liaison to and supported the work of the task force that resulted in the creation of the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Her publications include coauthoring “Can a Library Building’s Design Cue New Behaviors? A Case study,” in portal: Librar- ies and the Academy (2017); “Building a Peer Learning Service for Students in an Academic Library,” in portal: Libraries and the Academy (2015); and “SPEC Kit 331: Changing Role of Senior Administrators” for the Association of Research Libraries (2012). ACRL Board of Directors P r e s i d e n t - E l e c t : L y n n S i l i p i g n i Connaway, Director of Library Trends and User Research, OCLC Research; Julie Gar- rison, Dean, University Libraries, Western Michigan University. Director-at-Large: Kathy A. Parsons, Head, Preservation and Stacks Manage- ment, Iowa State University Library; Jessica January 2020 25 C&RL News Brangiel, Electronic Resources Manage- ment Librarian, Swarthmore College. Director-at-Large: Jennifer Nutefall, University Librarian, Santa Clara University; Toni Anaya, Interim Coordinator of User Experience, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Anthropology and Sociology Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Thomas Dur- kin, Senior Academic Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Triveni Kuchi, So- cial Sciences/Instructional Services Librar- ian and Faculty and Graduate Services Coordinator, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. Member-at-Large: Hailey Mooney, Psy- chology and Sociology Librarian, Univer- sity of Michigan; Priscilla Seaman, Subject Librarian for Anthropology, Geography and Planning, Communication, University at Albany. Arts Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Tiffany Bailey, Fine Arts Manager, Dallas Public Library. Community and Junior College Libraries Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Robin Brown, Associate Professor/Head of Public Ser- vices, Borough of Manhattan Community College. Secretary: Katherine McGivern, Fac- ulty Librarian, Reference and Instruction, Bergen Community College; Linda Miles, Assistant Professor and OER Librarian, Hostos Community College-City University of New York. College Libraries Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Dawn Beh- rend, Instruction and Outreach Librarian, Lenoir-Rhyne University; Kevin Butter- field, University Librarian, University of Richmond. Secretary: Melanie Bopp, Librarian, Information Delivery and Access Services, Northeastern University; Britt Anne Mur- phy, Director of the Library and Librarian, Hendrix College. Member-at-Large: Deborah Prosser, Director, Olin Library, Rollins College; Scott Walter, Professor, University Librarian, and University Copyright Officer, Illinois Wesleyan University. Digital Scholarship Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Suzanna Con- rad, Associate Dean for Digital Technolo- gies and Resource Management, California State University-Sacramento; Elisandro Cabada, Medical and Bioengineering Li- brarian, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Secretary: Meris Mandernach Long- meier, Head of Research Services, The Ohio State University; Theresa Burress, Sci- ence Librarian, Research and Instruction, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg. Member-at-Large: Erla P. Heyns, Head, Humanities, Social Science, Education and Business Division, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Stud- ies; Megan Martinsen, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Georgetown University; Patrice- Andre Prud’homme, Director, Digital Cura- tion, Oklahoma State University. Distance Learning Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Samantha Harlow, Online Learning Librarian, Uni- versity of North Carolina-Greensboro; Mi- chael Courtney, Outreach and Engagement Librarian, Indiana University. Secretary/Archivist: Heather A. Dalal, Instruction and Emerging Technologies Librarian, Rider University. 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European Studies Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Manuel Ostos, Associate Librarian for Romance Languages and Literatures, Penn State University Libraries; Hélène Huet, European Studies Librarian, University of Florida. Secretary: Walter Schlect, Germanic Languages and Literature and Comparative Literature Subject Librarian, Washington University in St. Louis; Kathryn Kuntz, Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Su- pervisor, Davenport Public Library. Member-at-Large: Chella Vaidyana- than, European/World History and Philoso- phy Librarian, Emory University. Instruction Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Maura Seale, History Librarian, University of Michigan; Veronica Arellano Douglas, Instruction Coordinator, University of Houston. Secr etary: Maoria J. Kirker, Lead, Teaching and Learning Team, George Ma- son University; Karen Doster-Greenleaf, Student Success Librarian, Georgia State University. Member-at-Large: Donna Witek, Infor- mation Literacy Coordinator/Research and Instruction Librarian/Associate Professor, The University of Scranton; Jorge R. López- McKnight, Austin Community College; Sara Scheib, Head, Scholarly Impact, University of Iowa Libraries; Bill Marino, Online Learning Librarian, Eastern Michigan Uni- versity; Sara Holder, Head of Research and Information Services, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Literatures in English Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Kristina De Voe, English and Communication Librarian, Temple University; Glenda Insua, Refer- ence and Liaison Librarian, University of Illinois-Chicago. Secretary: Leslie Madden, Team Leader for Arts and Sciences, Subject Librarian for Applied Linguistics and ESL, English and World Languages and Cultures, Georgia State University; Zara T. Wilkinson, Refer- ence and Instruction Librarian, Rutgers University-Camden. M e m b e r - a t - L a r g e : N a t a l i e O r n a t , Humanities Librarian, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; Emily Spunaugle, Assis- tant Professor/Humanities and Rare Books Librarian, Oakland University. Politics, Policy, and International Relations Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Chelsea Nes- vig, Research and Instruction/Global Policy Studies Librarian, University of Washington-Bothell/Cascadia College; Ol- ivia Ivey, Public Affairs Librarian, American University. Member-at-Large: Megan Hunt, Public Policy Liaison and Reference Librarian, Georgetown University; Earl Shumaker, Librarian, Waubonsee Community College. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Alison Cle- mens, Assistant Head of Arrangement and Description, Yale University Library; Heather Smedberg, Reference and Instruc- tion Coordinator, Special Collections and Archives, University of California-San Diego Library. Member-at-Large: Katharine C. Chan- dler, Cataloger, Library of Congress; Diane Dias De Fazio, Curator of Rare Books and Book Arts, Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries. Science and Technology Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Shannon Far- rell, Natural Resources Librarian, University January 2020 29 C&RL News of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Hannah Gascho Rempel, Science Librarian, Oregon State University. Publicity Officer: Virginia (Ginny) Pannabecker, Director, Research Col- laboration and Engagement, Associate Professor, Virginal Tech University Librar- ies; Ana Torres, Interim Co-Head Dibner Library, NYU Division of Libraries, New York University. Member-at-Large: Greg Nelson, Chemi- cal and Life Sciences Librarian, Brigham Young University; Rebecca Renirie, Re- search and Instruction Librarian, Medical Librarian, Central Michigan University. University Libraries Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Laura W. Gariepy, Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning, Virginia Com- monwealth University Libraries; Jennifer W H I T E PA P E R Research Data Services in Academic Libraries: Where are We Today? Carol Tenopir, U niversity of Tenn essee Robert Sandusky , University of Ill inois—Chicago Jordan Kaufman , University of Te nnessee Danielle Pollock , Simmons Unive rsity A Choice White Paper Research Dat a Services in Academic Lib raries: Where are We Today? READ THE WHITE PAPER AT CHOICE360.ORG/LIBRARIANSHIP/WHITEPAPER Sharkey, Associate Professor of Library Science and Head of Instruction and Stu- dent Engagement, Illinois State University. Member-at-Large: Christian Miller, Re- search and Instruction Librarian/Lecturer, Cornell University; Mea Warren, Natural Sci- ences and Mathematics Librarian, University of Houston; Annie Zeidman-Karpinski, The Kenneth M. and Kenda H. Singer Science Librarian, University of Oregon. Women and Gender Studies Section Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Julie Adamo, Research and Instruction Librarian, Mount Holyoke College. Secretary: Cindy Ingold, Gender Stud- ies and Multicultural Services Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Member-at-Large: Chloe Raub, Head of Archives and Special Collections, New- comb Institute of Tulane University.