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Updated March 10, 2010


 

ARL Officers and Board

(Terms begin and end in October)
Brinley Franklin, ARL President (Connecticut)  
2005–2011
Carol Mandel, ARL Vice President/President-Elect (New York)  
2006–2012
Tom Leonard, ARL Past President (California, Berkeley)  
2004–2010
Charles B. Lowry, ex officio (ARL Executive Director)    
2008–        
Colleen Cook (Texas A&M)  
2008–2011
Barbara Dewey, ex officio (Tennessee)    
2006–2010
Carol Pitts Diedrichs (Ohio State)  
2009–2012
Deborah Jakubs (Duke)  
2009–2012
Wendy Lougee (Minnesota)  
2009–2012
Sarah Michalak, ex officio (North Carolina at Chapel Hill)  
2008–2010
Carole Moore, ex officio (Toronto)  
2010–2011
James Mullins (Purdue)  
2008–2011
Winston Tabb (Johns Hopkins)  
2007–2010
Karin A. Trainer (Princeton)  
2007–2010
Paul Wiens (Queen’s)  
2007–2010
Sandra G. Yee (Wayne State)  
2008–2011

ARL Board Committees and Task Forces

Executive Committee, 2009–2010

Brinley Franklin, ARL President (Connecticut)
Carol Mandel, ARL Vice President/President-Elect (New York)
Tom Leonard, ARL Past President (California, Berkeley)
Charles B. Lowry, ex officio (ARL Executive Director)

Coalition for Networked Information Steering Committee
ARL Representatives

(See below for complete committee roster.)
Richard E. Luce (Emory)     July 2007–June 2010
Deanna Marcum (Library of Congress)     July 2008–June 2011
Sherrie Schmidt (Arizona State)   July 2009–June 2012

Diversity and Leadership Committee

Nancy Baker, Chair (Iowa)     2010–2012
Carol Pitts Diedrichs (Ohio State)   2009–2011
Connie Vinita Dowell (Vanderbilt)     2009–2011
Joyce Garnett (Western Ontario)   2010
Marianne Gaunt (Rutgers)   2010–2012
Cliff Haka (Michigan State)     2008–2010
Ruth Jackson (California, Riverside)   2010-2012
Artemis Kirk (Georgetown)     2009–2011
Paula Mochida (Hawaii at Manoa)   2010-2012
Jim Williams (Colorado at Boulder)     2008–2010
Staff Liaison:
  Mark Puente (ARL)

Membership Committee

Paula Kaufman, Chair (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 2009–2011
Jennifer Cargill (Louisiana State)   2010–2012
Nancy Cline (Harvard)   2009–2011
Joyce Garnett (Western Ontario)   2008–2010
Rush Miller (Pittsburgh)   2009–2011
Dana C. Rooks (Houston)   2010–2012
Amy Ryan (Boston Public)   2010–2012
Jay Schafer (Massachusetts Amherst)   2009–2011
Sandra Yee (Wayne State)   2008–2011
Jennifer Younger (Notre Dame)   2009–2011
Staff Liaison:    
   Julia Blixrud (ARL)    

Nominating Committee, 2010

Tom Leonard, ex officio Chair (California, Berkeley)  
   Members to be named summer 2010    

Statistics and Assessment Committee

Bill Potter, Chair (Georgia)   2010–2012
Larry Alford (Temple)   2009–2011
Colleen Cook (Texas A&M)   2010–2012
Joan Giesecke (Nebraska)   2010–2012
Eileen Hitchingham (Virginia Tech)   2008–2010
Ernie Ingles (Alberta)   2008–2010
Victoria Montavon (Cincinnati)   2010–2012
Judith Nadler (Chicago)   2008–2010
Ingrid Parent (British Columbia)   2010–2012
Scott Seaman (Ohio)   2009–2011
Suzanne Thorin (Syracuse)   2010–2012
Tom Wall (Boston College)   2009–2011
Staff Liaison:    
   Martha Kyrillidou (ARL)    

Strategic Direction Steering Committees

Influencing Public Policies

Sarah Michalak, Chair (North Carolina at Chapel Hill)    
2008–2010
Karen Adams (Manitoba)    2009–2011
David Carlson (Southern Illinois Carbondale)   2010–2012
Paul Courant (Michigan)    
2008–2010
Wendy Lougee (Minnesota)   2010–2012
Sara Lowman (Rice)    
2008–2010
Olivia Madison (Iowa State)    
2008–2010
Judith Russell (Florida)   2010–2012
Suzanne Thorin (Syracuse)    
2008–2010
Jim Williams (Colorado at Boulder)    
2009–2011
Betsy Wilson (Washington)    
2008–2010
Staff Liaison:    
   Prue Adler (ARL)    

Reshaping Scholarly Communication

Carole Moore, Chair (Toronto)   2010–2011
Cynthia Archer (York)   2008–2010
Martha Bedard (New Mexico)   2008–2010
Lorraine Haricombe (Kansas)   2010–2012
Fred Heath (Texas)   2009–2011
Jeffrey Horrell (Dartmouth)   2010–2012
Robert Hudson (Boston)   2010–2012
James Mullins (Purdue)   2008–2010
Joyce Ogburn (Utah)   2008–2010
Jay Starratt (Washington State)   2009–2011
Ann Wolpert (MIT)   2010–2012
Staff Liaison:    
   Julia Blixrud (ARL)    

Transforming Research Libraries

   
Barbara Dewey, Chair (Tennessee)   2008–2010
Deb Carver (Oregon)   2009–2011
Mary Casserly (Albany, SUNY)   2010–2012
Susan Gibbons (Rochester)   2009–2011
Thomas Hickerson (Calgary)   2010–2012
Brenda Johnson (California, Santa Barbara)   2010–2012
Anne Kenney, ex officio (Cornell)   2010–2012
Bonnie MacEwan (Auburn)   2009–2011
Catherine Murray-Rust (Georgia Tech)   2009–2011
James G. Neal (Columbia)   2010–2012
Louis Pitschmann (Alabama)   2010–2012
Gary Strong (California, Los Angeles)   2008–2010
Jeffrey Trzeciak (McMaster)   2010–2012
Julia Zimmerman (Florida State)   2008–2010
Staff Liaison:    
   Karla Hahn Strieb (ARL)    

Advisory Committees, Working Groups, and Task Forces

These “action groups” work on specific projects and programs of the Association. They are ongoing or temporary as appropriate.

E-Science Working Group

James Mullins, Chair (Purdue)   2010-2012
Martha Bedard (New Mexico)   2010-2012
Pam Bjornson (CISTI)   2010-2012
Harriette Hemmasi (Brown)   2010-2012
Clifford Lynch (CNI), liaison      
Becky Lyon (National Library of Medicine)   2010-2012
Carol Mandel (New York)   2010
MacKenzie Smith (MIT)   2010-2012
Gary Strong (California, Los Angeles)   2008-2010
Betsy Wilson (Washington)   2008-2010
Staff Liaison:    
   Karla Hahn Strieb (ARL)    

Fair Use and Related Exemptions Working Group

Mary Case, Chair (Illinois at Chicago)   2008–2010
Susan Gibbons (Rochester)     2010–2012
Mark Haslett (Waterloo)     2009–2011
Judith Russell (Florida)     2008–2010
Scott Seaman (Ohio)   2010–2012
Jack Siggins (George Washington)   2009–2011
Carla Stoffle (Arizona)     2008–2010
Ed Van Gemert (Wisconsin)     2010–2012
Madelyn Wessel (Virginia)     2008–2010
Staff Liaison:    
   Prue Adler (ARL)    

Regional Federal Depository Libraries Working Group

Joan Giesecke, Chair (Nebraska)   2008–2010
Brent Allison (Minnesota)   2008–2010
Jim Cogswell (Missouri)   2009–2011
Don Dyal (Texas Tech)   2009–2011
Sheila Johnson (Oklahoma State)   2010–2012
Sarah Michalak (North Carolina at Chapel Hill)   2008–2010
Judith Russell (Florida)   2008–2010
Patricia Steele (Maryland)   2010–2012
Ed Van Gemert (Wisconsin)   2008–2010
Staff Liaison:    
   Prue Adler (ARL)    

Research Library Leadership Fellows (RLLF) Program Sponsors Advisory Committee (2009–2010)

Julene Butler (Brigham Young)
Paul Courant (Michigan)
Joyce Garnett (Western Ontario)
Catherine Murray-Rust (Georgia Tech)
Joyce Ogburn (Utah)
Dana C. Rooks (Houston)
Judith Russell (Florida)
Staff Liaison:
   Charles B. Lowry (ARL)

Special Collections Working Group

Anne Kenney (Cornell) 2010–2012
Larry Alford (Temple) 2008–2010
H. Austin Booth (Buffalo) 2009-2010
Susan Brynteson (Delaware) 2008–2010
Mark Dimunation (Library of Congress) 2009–2011
Jackie Dooley (RLG Programs/OCLC) Liaison
Nancy Eaton (Pennsylvania State) 2007–2010
Joshua Greenberg (NYPL) 2010-2012
Nancy Gwinn (Smithsonian) 2008–2010
Thomas Hickerson (Calgary) 2010-2012
Susan Nutter (North Carolina State) 2009–2011
Ingrid Parent (British Columbia) 2010-2012
Sarah Pritchard (Northwestern) 2009–2011
Bernard Reilly (Center for Research Libraries) 2009–2011
Mike Ridley (Guelph) 2009–2011
Rich Szary (North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 2009–2011
Corresponding members:
   Graham Jefcoate (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
   Clifford Lynch (CNI)
   Richard Ovenden (Oxford, Bodleian Library)
   Alice Schreyer (Chicago)
Staff Liaisons:
   Lisa Carter (ARL Visiting Program Officer/North Carolina State)
   Karla Hahn Strieb (ARL)

CNI, LibQUAL+®, and SPARC Steering Committees

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Steering Committee (2008–2009)

Richard Paul West, Chair (California State)
Daniel Cohen (George Mason) 
Charles B. Lowry, ex officio (ARL)
Richard E. Luce (Emory)
Deanna B. Marcum (Library of Congress)
Diana G. Oblinger, ex officio (EDUCAUSE)
Pattie Orr (Baylor)
Sherrie Schmidt (Arizona State)
George O. Strawn (National Science Foundation)
Donald J. Waters (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
Staff Liaison:
   Clifford A. Lynch (CNI)

LibQUAL+® Steering Committee

Colleen Cook (Texas A&M)
Fred Heath (Texas)
Bruce Thompson (Texas A&M/Baylor College of Medicine)
Stephen Town (University of York [UK])
Staff Liaisons:
   Martha Kyrillidou (ARL)
   Charles B. Lowry (ARL)

Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Steering Committee

David Carlson, Chair (Southern Illinois Carbondale)
Jun Adachi (Japanese National Institute of Informatics)
Lars Bjørnshauge (Lund)
Faye Chadwell (Oregon State)
Maggie Farrell (Wyoming)
Lorraine Haricombe (Kansas)
Thomas Hickerson (Calgary)
Paula Kaufman (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Rick Luce (Emory)
Jonathan Miller (Rollins)
Patricia Renfro (Columbia)
Lee Van Orsdel (Grand Valley State)
Jean Shipman (Utah)
Vicki Williamson (Saskatchewan)
Staff Liaison:
   Heather Joseph (SPARC)