scholarly journals And the winners are . . .: The official results of the 2019 ACRL elections

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 334
Author(s):  
Association Of College & Research Libraries

Karen Munro, associate dean of libraries, learning and research services, at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, on the traditional, current, and unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, and Kwikwetlem Nations, is the 82nd president of ACRL.Jon E. Cawthorne, dean of the Wayne State University Library System and the School of Information Sciences, has been elected vice-president/president-elect of ACRL.

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Association Of College and Research Libraries

Jon E. Cawthorne, dean of the Wayne State University Library System and the School of Information Sciences, is the 83rd president of ACRL.Julie Garrison, dean of university libraries at Western Michigan University, has been elected vice-president/president-elect of ACRL. 


2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
pp. 314
Author(s):  
Association Of College & Research Libraries

Lauren Pressley, director of the University of Washington (UW) Tacoma Library and an associate dean of UW Libraries, is the 81st president of ACRL.Karen Munro, associate dean of libraries, learning and research services, at Simon Fraser University (SFU), has been elected vice-president/president-elect of ACRL.


1987 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-331
Author(s):  
Mushtaqur Rahman

The Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) held its SixteenthAnnual Conference at the ISNA headquarters in Plainfield, Indiana, October9-11, 1987. Registration listed about 200 participants from the United States,Canada, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Trinidad, and other countries. Theinaugural session on October 9 provided a hospitable setting for camaraderie.Eloquent and spirited speeches by Iqbal Unus, Conference Chairman; lbrahimSyed, AMSE Program Chairman; and Mushtaqur Rahman, AMSS ProgramChairman, set the stage for the conference and the sessions.Chaired by Salahuddin Malik, AMSS Vice-president, the first session onPolitical Science was held on Friday evening after Salat-ul Maghrib. HashemAl-Jaseem of the University of California was the first to present his paperon Islam and Politics. He was followed by Taysir Nashif of Essex CountyCollege, who pleaded for a Nuclear Free Zone in the Middle East. LouaySafi of Wayne State University concluded the session with his presentationof War and Peace in Islam.This session was so lively and discussions so absorbing that no time wasleft for the following session scheduled for the same evening. Conferees preferredto postpone the second session rather than to conclude the discussions.It was heartening that every conferee maintained the Islamic tradition of conductingdebates in a spirit of good humor, disagreeing without beingdisagreeable.The first full day of the conference, Saturday, October 10, began with aTilawat-e-Quran, and a session on Education. Chaired by M.A.W. Fakhri ofChicago State University, the session had two presentations. Hakim Rashidof Howard University opened the session with his paper on “SocializatiodEducationof Muslim Children in America”. He was followed by NimatHafez Barzangi of Cornell University, who presented her paper on “Perceptionsof the Islamic Belief System: The Muslims in North America. Followingthe session on education, two concurrent sessions were held on Sociologyand History dealing with Muslim minorities. This was the first time the strategyof concurrent sessions was ever tried in the AMSS. The sociology sessionChairperson, Ilyas Baynus of the State University of New York, first invited ...


2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
ACRL ACRL

Cheryl A. Middleton, associate university librarian for learning and engagement, Oregon State University Libraries & Press, is the 80th president of ACRL.Lauren Pressley, director of the University of Washington (UW) Tacoma Library and associatedean of UW Libraries, has been elected vice-president/president-elect of ACRL.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-190
Author(s):  
Linda Neyer ◽  
Larissa Gordon

Accomplishments, experiences, events, and news about Pennsylvania librarians and libraries. In this issue: Chatham University Appointments and Professional Development Clarion University Libraries Appoint Two New Library Faculty Duquesne University Library News Lehigh Libraries Go Live with OLE The Library Company of Philadelphia’s African Americana Graphics Collection Now Online PADIGITAL E-mail List Penn State University Libraries News Seton Hill Library Marks 125th Anniversary with Makeover University of Pittsburgh Library System News


2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Association Of College & Research Libraries

Jon E. Cawthorne is dean of Wayne State University Library System and the School of Information Studies, 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).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).


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