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crln-8920	American Library Association, 	ACRL Board of Directors’ actions, January 2013: Highlights of the Board’s Midwinter meetings	2013	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1237	29	19	Whereas, the Association of College & Re- search Libraries and the broader community of academic and research libraries and librarians lost a valued member, mentor, and leader on December 30, 2012, with the death of Joseph J. Branin, director of libraries at the King Abdul- lah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); and Whereas, he provided leadership with distinction for academic libraries in the United States and abroad for over 30 years, including KAUST, The Ohio State University, the State University of New York-Stony Brook, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Georgia; and Whereas, he provided leadership for nu- merous institutions in the library, archives, and museums community, including the Columbus (Ohio) Art Museum, OhioLINK, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and the Associa- tion of Research Libraries, where he served as a member of the Board of Directors from 2001 to 2003; and Whereas, he made important contributions to the literature of academic librarianship for over 30 years in areas such as collection management, scholarly communication, and library leadership, including his coauthor- ship of “The Changing Nature of Collection Management in Research Libraries” (2000), which won the Blackwell Scholarship Award as the year’s outstanding article “in the field of technical services, including acquisitions, cataloging, collection management, preserva- tion, continuing resources and related areas in the library field”; and Whereas, he served as a valued member of the editorial boards of a number of lead- ing publications in academic librarianship, including Technical Services Quarterly and the Journal of Academic Librarianship, and served as a mentor for many colleagues as a member of the Library and Information Sci- ence Editors Group; and Whereas, he served as editor of College & Research Libraries from 2007 until his untimely death, during which time he suc- cessfully advocated for the journal’s embrace of key principles in the movement toward open access, including the posting of digital preprints, the provision of free access to the journal’s historical back-file, and, in 2011, the decision by the ACRL Board of Directors to transform the journal into a fully digital, openly- accessible title; and Whereas, the Editorial Board of College & Research Libraries, the Publications Coordi- nating Committee of the Association of College & Research Libraries, and the ACRL Board of Directors wish to recognize and honor Joseph J. Branin’s many significant contributions to the life of the association and to the enrichment of the scholarly literature of academic librarian- ship, now therefore let it be Resolved, that the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, joins his family, friends, colleagues, and associates in remembering and celebrating the life and accomplishments of Joseph J. Branin; and, be it further Resolved, that the ACRL Board of Directors commends the contributions and leadership that Joseph J. Branin provided to the association and to the profession; and, finally, be it Resolved, that the Association of College & Research Libraries, on behalf of its 12,000 members, expresses its sincere sympathy to Joseph J. Branin’s wife, Anita, and to their family. The reso- lution recognized the important work that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries has undertaken to make the entire archive of College & Research Libraries pub- licly accessible.	cache/crln-8920.pdf	txt/crln-8920.txt