ACRL candidates for 2019

A look at who’s running

Jon E. Cawthorne is dean of Wayne State University Library System and the School of Information Sciences, a position he has held since 2017. Prior to this, Cawthorne served as dean of libraries at West Virginia University (2014–17), as associate dean of public services and assessment at Florida State University (2012–14), and as associate university librarian for Public Services at Boston College (2011–12).

Cawthorne is currently a member of the ACRL 2019 Conference Colleagues Committee (2017–present). During his 24 years of ACRL membership, he has served as chair of the ACRL Diversity Alliance Steering Committee (2016–present) and as a member of the ACRL President’s Program Committee (2015–17). Previously, he was a member of the ACRL New Publications Advisory Board (2015), the ACRL Friends’ Fundraising Committee (2007–10), the ACRL Publications Coordinating Committee (2006–08), the ACRL Poster Sessions Committee (2003–05), and the ACRL President’s Program Planning Committee (2002–04). Additionally, Cawthorne’s work within ALA includes being a mentor for the LLAMA Mentoring Program (2018), a member of both the ALA Nominating Committee (2006–08) and the Office of Diversity Director Search Committee (2007), along with serving as chair of the ALA Spectrum Advisory Committee (2006–07) and the ALA Lippincott Award Committee (2006–07). He was a member of the Spectrum Initiative Institute (2004–08 and 1999–2000), the ALA Awards Committee (2003–06), and the Peggy Sullivan Awards Committee (2004–05). He served on the ALA Publishing Committee (2000–02), the 5th National Conference Site Selection Committee (1999–2001), the ALA/PLA New Leaders Travel Grant Committee (2001), and the Dr. John C. Tyson Scholarship Committee (1996–99). Cawthorne developed and comanaged the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) homepage (1995–99), served as chair of the 4th National Conference New Member Orientation (1998), and sat on the BCALA Executive Board (1995–97).

Cawthorne’s work with state, regional, and other national associations include successfully gaining membership into the Greater Western Library Alliance for West Virginia University (2015) and Wayne State University (2017), serving as board member at-large of the Greater Western Library Alliance (2015–17), president of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortia (2016), cochair of the Michigan Library Association’s Special Events Committee (2000), and chair of the Oregon State Library Association’s Membership Committee (1996–97).

Cawthorne was a presenter at the Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians in 2017 and 2018. He was selected for the 2011–13 ARL Research Library Fellows Program. He also took part in the UCLA Senior Fellows as a participant in 2007 and as a presenter in 2017. He has received the BCALA Advocacy Award (2015). He also received ALA’s John Cotton Dana Award the San Diego State University Library and Information Access for Marketing Spirit of the Land (2005), the “Outstanding 25” at San Diego State University for campus and community work Spirit of the Land (2004), and the Outstanding Faculty Award Presented by Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Oregon (1997). He serves as an Advisory Board member and faculty for the University of North Carolina-Greensboro Diversity Residency Institute. He is also cofounder of the ACRL Diversity Alliance and of the Michigan Digital Publishing Institute.

His publications include: “On Becoming: The ten thousand hours towards positive leadership,” in Crucible Moments: Inspiring Library Leadership, edited by Steven Bell, (Santa Barbara: Mission Bell Media, 2015); Scenario planning to create future scenarios: A Guidebook for Librarians coauthored by Joan Giesecke (Chicago: American Library Association, 2015); and “Leading from the Middle: An Examination of Shared Leadership in Academic Libraries,” for Journal of Academic Librarianship 36, issue 2 (March 2010).

Anne Marie Casey is the director of Hunt Library at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where she has worked since 2009. Prior to this position, Casey provided 17 years of service to Central Michigan University, where she served as associate dean of libraries (2002–09), director of off-campus library services (1999–2002), and as a distance learning librarian (1991–99).

Casey is currently cochair of the ACRL/LLAMA Interdivisional Committee on Building Resources (2017–19) and a member of ACRL 2019 Virtual Conference Committee (2017–19). She was cochair of the ACRL 2017 President’s Program Committee (2015–17). During her 26 years of ACRL membership, she has served as member of the ACRL University Libraries Section Conference Program Committee (2015–16, 2017–18) and has worked intensely with the ACRL Distance Learning Section, where she has served as vice-chair (2012–13), chair (2013–14), and past chair (2014–15). She served as the chair of the DLS Outreach Committee (2013–15), as a member of the DLS Research Committee (2014–16), and chair of the DLS Membership and Events Committee (2009–13). Casey also served as a member of the DLS Conference Program Planning Committee (1994–95, 1996–98, and 2007–09) and as chair (1998–99). She was chair of the DLS Strategic Planning Committee (2007–09), a member of the DLS Social Events Planning Committee (2006–08), and served as chair of the DLS Nominations Committee (2003–04). She served as chair of the DLS Liaison Committee (1999-2001) and cochair of DLS Communications Committee (1995–97). Casey’s work within ALA includes serving as a member of the LLAMA Program Committee (2011–13), the New Members RoundTable Orientation Committee (1988–90), the Publicity Committee (1990), and the Students to ALA Reception Committee (1987).

Casey’s work with state, regional, and other national associations includes serving on the Florida Library Association (FLA) Board of Directors (2017–present), as chair of the FLA Strategic Planning Committee (2015–16) and as a member of the Planning Committee (2013–15) and Leadership Development Committee (2011–13). She also served on the Florida Association of College and Research Libraries Board of Directors (2011–16) and on the Northeast Florida Library Information Network Board of Directors (2012–14), where she also served as president (2014–15). Casey served on the Michigan Library Association (MLA) Board of Directors (2006–07), as chair of the MLA Conference Sponsorship Committee (2006–07), as a member of the Membership Committee (1993–94, 2006–07), as chair of the Conference Planning Committee (2004–05), as member at-large of the MLA Academic Division (2003–05), and as a member of the Conference Planning Committee (2003). She was also a member of the Massachusetts Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee (1986–87).

Casey formed a coalition of research faculty and staff at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to secure funding for an institutional repository called Scholarly Commons. Since its implementation in 2013, she has led the university oversight team that develops and maintains the repository for the project. She also chaired the committee that developed the current Florida Library Association’s strategic plan. She received the ACRL DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Award and the Information Literacy Forum Information Literacy Star (2007).

Her publications include, “Does Tenure-Matter? Factors Influencing Faculty Contributions to Institutional Repositories” for Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (Volume 1, Number 1, 2012); “Strategic Priorities: A Roadmap Through Change for Library Leaders” for Library Leadership and Management (Volume 29, Number 2, 2015), ALA Publishing; and coauthorship of “Untapped Potential: Seeking Library Donors among Alumni of Distance Learning Programs” for Journal of Library Administration (Volume 50, Numbers 5/6, 2010), Taylor and Francis.

ACRL Board of Directors

President-Elect: Jon E. Cawthorne, Dean, Wayne State University Library System and the School of Information Sciences, Wayne State University; Anne Marie Casey, Director, Hunt Library, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Director-at-Large: Cinthya Ippoliti, Director and University Librarian, Auraria Library, University of Colorado-Denver (Auraria Campus); Merinda Kaye Hensley, Digital Scholarship Liaison and Instruction Librarian, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Director-at-Large: Shawn P. Calhoun, Associate Dean, Public Services, University of San Francisco Gleeson Library; Kim Copenhaver, Associate Professor, Reference, Instruction and Access Services Librarian, Eckerd College.

Councilor: Christopher Cox, Dean of Libraries, Clemson University; Jacquelyn A. Bryant, Assistant Professor, Library, Community College of Philadelphia.

Anthropology and Sociology Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Juliann Couture, Social Science Librarian/Acting Head, William M. White Business Library, University of Colorado-Boulder; Triveni Kuchi, Social Sciences/Instructional Services Librarian and Head of Learning and Engagement Department, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey.

Secretary: Rebekah J. Lee, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Collin College-Preston Ridge Campus; Rachael Muszkiewicz, Associate Professor of Library Services, Valparaiso University.

Member-at-Large: Ilka Datig, Head of Instruction and Outreach, Nazareth College; Susan Gilman, Librarian for Tozzer Library, Harvard University; Deborah J. Margolis, Middle East Studies and Anthropology Librarian, Michigan State University.

Arts Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Alessia Zanin-Yost, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Penn State University; Mackenzie Salisbury, Reference and Instruction Librarian, School of the Art Institute-Chicago.

Secretary: Laura Dimmit, Research and Instruction/Arts and Humanities Librarian, University of Washington-Bothell and Cascadia College Campus Library; Rachel Berman Turner, Cataloging Librarian and Subject Librarian for Judaic Studies, Binghamton University.

Community and Junior College Libraries Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Martin House, Assistant Director for Public Services, Central Piedmont Community College; Sandra C. McCarthy, Faculty Librarian, Washtenaw Community College.

College Libraries Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Brian C. Gray, Team Leader Research Services, Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University; Mary Mallery, Chief Librarian and Executive Director of Academic Information Technology, Brooklyn College CUNY.

Secretary: Mary Wegmann, Collection Development Librarian, Sonoma State University; Jenny Horton, Director, Knight-Capron Library, University of Lynchburg.

Member-at-Large: Lisa C. McDaniels, Dean of the Library, Juniata College; Andrew Adler, Director of Library Services, Georgetown College.

Digital Scholarship Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Patrice-Andre Prud’homme, Director, Digital Curation, Oklahoma State University; Kristen Totleben, Modern Languages and Cultures Librarian, University of Rochester.

Member-at-Large: Terence O’Neill, Head, Digital Scholarship and Makerspace Services, Michigan State University Libraries; Lydia Zvyagintseva, Head, Digital Scholarship Services, University of Alberta Libraries; Matthew Hannah, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, Purdue University Libraries; Amanda Tickner, GIS Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries.

Distance Learning Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Karla Aleman, Dean, Library and eLearning Division, Lorain County Community College; Amanda Ziegler, Reference Librarian, Northcentral University.

Secretary/Archivist: Shauna Edson, Instructional Design Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Parkside; Stephanie Espinoza Villamor, eLearning Librarian, College of Southern Nevada; Cynthia Thomes, Reference and Instruction Librarian III, University of Maryland University College.

Member-at-Large: Samantha Harlow, Online Learning Librarian, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Victoria (Torrie) Raish, Online Learning Librarian, Pennsylvania State University; Jennifer Rundels, Distance Education Librarian, Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University; Brian Ryckman, STEM Librarian, Southern New Hampshire University.

Education and Behavioral Sciences Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: April Hines, Journalism and Mass Communications Librarian, University of Florida; Todd Shipman, Education Librarian, Auburn University.

Secretary: Samantha Godbey, Education Librarian, Associate Professor, University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Member-at-Large: Kimberly Miller, Learning Technologies Librarians and Liaison to Psychology, Towson University; Mandy L. Havert, Graduate Outreach and Digital Research Librarian, University of Notre Dame.

European Studies Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Thomas Keenan, Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies Librarian, Princeton University; Alain St. Pierre, Librarian for World History, History of Science and African Studies, Princeton University.

Secretary: Megan Browndorf, East European Studies Liaison and Reference Librarian, Georgetown University.

Member-at-Large: Liladhar R. Pendse, Librarian for East European and Eurasian Studies and Librarian for the Caribbean and Latin American Studies, University of California-Berkeley; Paula Mae Carns, Head, Literatures and Languages Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Instruction Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Nikhat J. Ghouse, Associate Librarian for the Social Sciences and Coordinator, Diversity Alliance Residency Program, American University; Jo Angela Oehrli, Learning Librarian, University of Michigan.

Secretary: Ben Oberdick, Head, Teaching and Learning, Michigan State University Libraries; Brian T. Sullivan, Interim Director of Libraries, Alfred University.

Member-at-Large: Maoria J. Kirker, Instruction and Assessment Coordinator, George Mason University; Catherine Fraser Riehle, Associate Professor and Learning Resources Design Librarian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Lauren Wahman, Information Literacy and Instruction Coordinator, Associate Senior Librarian, University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash College.

Literatures in English Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Brian Flota, Humanities Librarian, James Madison University; Alex Watson, Research and Instruction Librarian and Associate Professor, University of Mississippi.

Secretary: M. Leslie Madden, Team Leader for Arts and Sciences, Humanities Subject Librarian, Georgia State University; Abby Scheel, Humanities Librarian, Florida State University.

Member-at-Large: Ava M. Brillat, Learning and Research Services Librarian for English, English Composition, Theater Arts, and Classics, University of Miami; Glenda Insua, Reference and Liaison Librarian, University of Illinois-Chicago.

Politics, Policy, and International Relations Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Erin Ackerman, Social Sciences Librarian, The College of New Jersey.

Secretary: Andrew Dudash, Librarian for Political Science, Policy Studies, and Government Information, Penn State University.

Member-at-Large: Michelle H. Donlin, Scholarly Communication and Research Librarian, East Stroudsburg University.

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Melissa Hubbard, Presidential Fellow, University at Buffalo-The State University of New York; Petrina Jackson, Head, Special Collections and University Archives, Iowa State University.

Secretary: Will Hansen, Director of Reader Services and Curator of Americana, Newberry Library; Derek Christian Quezada, Outreach and Public Services Librarian for Special Collections and Archives, University of California-Irvine.

Member-at-Large: Curtis Small, Special Collections Librarian, University of Delaware Library Special Collections; Lynne M. Thomas, Head, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Rare Book and Manuscript Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Science and Technology Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Rachel Borchardt, Associate Director, Research and Instructional Services and Science Librarian, American University; David Romito, Science Librarian, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Secretary: Fran Rosen, Collection Strategies Librarian and Library Liaison to College of Engineering Technology, Ferris State University; Jeanne Hoover, Scholarly Communication Librarian, East Carolina University.

Member-at-Large: Kelee Pacion, Biology and Environmental Studies Librarian, Princeton University; Sarah H. Jeong, Research and Instruction Librarian for Science, Wake Forest University.

University Libraries Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Michelle Demeter, Head of Instruction and Undergraduate Services at New York University Libraries; Leslie Sult, Liaison Librarian to the College of Education and the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Arizona Libraries.

Secretary: Stephanie Fazenbaker Race, Head of Research and Outreach, University of North Florida Thomas G. Carpenter Library; Camille Thomas, Scholarly Communication Librarian, Texas Tech University Libraries.

Member-at-Large: George J. Fowler, University Librarian, Old Dominion University; Somaly Kim Wu, Head, Library Technology and Innovation, University of North Carolina-Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library; Lorelei Rutledge, Faculty Services Librarian, University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library.

Women and Gender Studies Section

Vice-chair/Chair-elect: Sharon Ladenson, Gender and Communication Studies Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries.

Secretary: Beth Twomey, Head, Research and Instruction, North Dakota State University.

Member-at-Large: Caitlin Shanley, Coordinator of Learning and Student Success, Temple University.