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tional cooperation, and library and professional 
development, among other topics. Ford was the 
1997–98 ALA president. From 2005 to 2009, she 
served as an elected member of the International 
Federation of Library Associations and Institu-
tions (IFLA) Governing Board. She previously 
served as the secretary for the IFLA Section on 
Government Information and Official Publica-
tions and on the IFLA Academic and Research 
Libraries Section. From 2011-13 she served on 
the U.S. National Commission for the United 
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Or-
ganization. Ford previously worked as assistant 
commissioner for central library services at the 
Chicago Public Library, executive director of the 
Virginia Commonwealth University libraries, and 
associate library director at Trinity University 
in San Antonio, Texas. She served in several 
capacities at the University of Illinois-Chicago, 
including documents librarian and audiovisual 
librarian. In addition, Ford was director of the 
Soybean Insect Research Information Center at 
the Illinois Natural History Survey. 

Appointments

Ellen Sutton was named dean of learning re-
sources at the College of DuPage in November 
2013, following service as associate dean since 
1999. Sutton’s prior positions include manager 
of Suburban Library System Reference Service 
(Illinois) and head of the Communications 
Library and social sciences librarian at the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
She is currently a board member of the Illinois 
Library Association and a past board member 
of the Council of Academic Libraries in Illinois. 

Elizabeth Fields has been appointed refer-
ence/federal documents librarian at the Mor-
gan State University Earl S. Richardson Library. 

Steven Hargrove is now an information 
literacy librarian in Earl S. Richardson Library.

Retirements

Barbara J. Ford, director of the Mortenson 
Center for International Library Programs and 
Mortenson Distinguished Professor at the Uni-
versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library 
since 2003, has retired. ALA, Chinese American 
Librarians Association, and University of Illinois 
at Urbana-Champaign have recognized Ford 
with awards for her significant contributions and 
dedication to international librarianship. Both Il-
linois Wesleyan University and the University of 
Illinois Graduate School of Library and Informa-
tion Science have given her distinguished alum-
na awards. The author of many publications 
and presentations, Ford has traveled around 
the world to address topics such as information 
literacy, government information, the future of 
libraries, the role of library associations, interna-

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