ACRL New England Chapter News Online

ISSN 1527-0106

Winter 2005, Number 104

In This Issue (Home):

President's Letter

ALA Midwinter Dessert Social

Librarian of the Year Nominations

Annual Program Announcement

Continuing Education Report

Legislative Report

Women's Studies Spring Program

Interest Group Reports:
Access Services (ASIG)
Women's Studies

Calendar Listings

The ACRL/NEC Annual Conference will held on Friday, May 20, 2005, at Rivier College in Nashua, N.H. The theme of this year's conference is "The Future of Academic Libraries." Conference planners are very excited to announce the 3 keynote speakers this year will be Brinley Franklin, Director of Library Services at the University of Connecticut, Frances Maloy, President of ACRL, and Roy Tennant, User Services Architect at the California Digital Library.

Brinley R. Franklin has been Director of Library Services at the University of Connecticut since 1999. Prior to his arrival at the university in 1990, he worked in corporate libraries, including Peat Marwick's higher education consulting practice where he specialized in library cost studies. Brinley is an active member of a number of professional associations, including: the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Library Administration and Management Association, and the International Federation of Library Associations. His research interests are in the areas of e-metrics, statistics and measurement, knowledge management, and academic library administration and his many publications and presentations reflect these interests.

President Maloy is Division Leader of Access Services at Emory University, and she was the leader of Organizational Redesign at Emory from 1999-2001. Ms. Maloy has served on the ACRL Board of Ethics, the Board of Directors, and on various ACRL committees. She is the author of "Defending the Freedom to Read: A Reflection of Personal Values and Censorship," College & Research Libraries News, March 1998. Her presentations on libraries and change include "Facilitating Change: Team Start Up at Emory University" (Living the Future IV, Tucson, AZ., April 2003), and "The Star Model-An Approach to Organizational Change" (ACRL 10th National Conference, March 2001).

Roy Tennant, User Services Architect for the California Digital Library, has been instrumental in developing the eScholarship Repository and the eScholarship Editions. Roy is also the creator and editor of Current Cites, a monthly current awareness newsletter. He has been a leading player in the development of the Librarians' Index to the Internet . Many librarians know Roy from his monthly column on digital libraries published in Library Journal since 1997. Roy's latest book is Managing the Digital Library published by Reed Business Press. For more on Roy's extensive professional contributions, see his web site

Afternoon breakout sessions will be hosted by three of ACRL/NEC's dynamic special interest groups and committees. ITIG's (Information Technology Interest Group) session will focus on Boston University's and Babson College's new innovative tutorials on searching electronic databases; NELIG's (New England Library Instruction Group) will feature a session on information commons; and the Continuing Education Committee will feature Michele Cloonan, dean of Simmons College's LIS School who'll be speaking about hot skills and jobs of the future.

To find out more about the upcoming conference, contact Nancy George, VP of ACRL/NEC, or Colleen Anderson, President of ACRL/NEC.

Nancy George
Electronic Resources Librarian
Salem State College Library
352 Lafayette St.
Salem, MA 01970 USA
978-542-7182 (voice)
978-542-6596 (fax)
ngeorge@salemstate.edu
george@noblenet.org