A Message from the President

Rosanne Humes

The ACRL/NY Executive Board and the Symposium Committee have been very busy the past few months.
The Symposium Committee, led by Susanne Markgren, Vice President/President Elect and Symposium Committee Chair, is putting the finishing touches on the December 4, 2009 event. The Symposium, entitled “Emerging Leadership in Academic Libraries” will be held at Baruch College, Vertical Campus Conference Center, 55 Lexington Ave, in New York. Our speakers will be: Mary Carmen Chimato, Head of Access and Delivery Services, North Carolina State University; Amanda Etches-Johnson, User Experience Librarian, McMaster University; Damon Jaggars, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services, Columbia University; and Brian Mathews, Assistant Librarian, Outreach and Academic Services, University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Executive Board has been evaluating and reorganizing the discussion groups. We have combined the Technical Services, Collection Development and Electronic Resources discussion groups and renamed them the Resource Sharing Group. We have eliminated Access Services, Cultural Diversity and Education/CMC, and added User Experience and Distance Learning.
To promote the groups and encourage new members, ACRL/NY has arranged for a different discussion group to meet at Mercy College Manhattan Campus each month. The discussion groups meet from 9:00 to 10:45, before the Symposium Committee that meets from 11:00 to 12:30, and then the Executive Board has its meeting from 1:00 to 3:30.
For more information on the Symposium, the Discussion Groups and all ACRL/NY business, please visit our website.