Hi readers! To kick off our programming for the year, the ALCTS New Members Interest Group (ANMIG) team would like to present our interview with ALCTS President Jennifer B. Bowen, Associate Dean at the River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.
Continue readingAs LRTS Editor, I chair the LRTS Editorial Board, whose members review papers and help me to solicit content. I also actively solicit content for the journal and oversee all submissions from review and editing to the final product. I work closely with Brooke Morris-Chott, who is ALCTS’ Program Officer for Communications, and Tim Clifford of ALA Production Services. Brooke is an amazing copy editor, and Tim handles the journal’s layout and production.
Continue readingI’m humbled to have been elected to serve as president of ALCTS, and I’m looking forward to my first task as president-elect: getting to meet many ALCTS members during the committee appointment process. I hope you will all share your thoughts and ideas with me about the future of our association in the years ahead.
Continue readingI consider myself to be a teacher—it doesn’t matter whether I’m staffing the research services desk, writing an article, doing collection development, or actually teaching a class. Teachers do a public good; they help make society better by continually learning and sharing their expertise with others.
Continue readingBecause of my interest in international librarianship, I am especially excited to be serving as the chair of the International Relations Committee, which oversees ALCTS Online Grant for Librarians from Developing Countries. Librarians selected for the grant participate in ALCTS Fundamentals courses. The goal of the grant is to assist library professionals from developing countries to stay current with the latest trends and developments in technical services areas and to enhance their professional knowledge and skills in librarianship and information science. The fall 2017 grant cycle was the first time that more than 100 people applied for the grant.
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