For immediate release:
October 17, 2008

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Association of Research Libraries
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ARL Announces Board of Directors 2008–09

Washington DC—Thomas C. Leonard, the Kenneth and Dorothy Hill University Librarian and a Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, began a one-year term as President of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on October 16, 2008, during the ARL Membership Meeting held in Arlington, Virginia. He succeeds Marianne I. Gaunt, University Librarian, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Gaunt continues to serve as a member of the ARL Board of Directors and Executive Committee as Past President. Also on October 16, the membership ratified the Board of Directors election of Brinley Franklin, Vice Provost, University Libraries, University of Connecticut, as ARL Vice President/President-Elect.

Three new Board members were elected by the membership to serve three-year terms: Colleen Cook, Dean of University Libraries, Holder of the Sterling C. Evans Chair in Librarianship, Texas A&M University; James Mullins, Dean of Libraries, Purdue University; and Sandra G. Yee, Dean, University Library System, Wayne State University.

Continuing members of the Board are: Barbara I. Dewey, Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee; Carol A. Mandel, Dean of the Division of Libraries, New York University; Dana C. Rooks, Dean of Libraries, Elizabeth D. Rockwell Chair, University of Houston; Winston Tabb, Sheridan Director and Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins University; Karin A. Trainer, University Librarian, Princeton University; Paul Wiens, University Librarian, Queen’s University; Charles B. Lowry, ex officio, Executive Director, ARL; Sarah Michalak, ex officio, University Librarian and Associate Provost, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and James Neal, ex officio, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University.

The ARL Board is the governing body of the Association and represents the interest of ARL member libraries in directing the business of the Association, including establishing operating policies, budgets, and fiscal control; defining ARL strategic directions; and representing ARL to the community.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.