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Candidate for VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT: Linda Chopra
Candidates for SECRETARY: Judy Clarence, Kari Lucas
Candidates for VICE-TREASURER/TREASURER-ELECT: Marcia King-Blandford, Haiwang Yuan
Linda Chopra, Candidate for Vice-President/President-Elect
Support Services Supervisor, Cleveland Heights. University Heights Public Library, 1983- .
M.L.S., Kent State University, 1980; B.S. in Ed. English, Kent State University, 1971; Graduate courses in management and automation, Kent State University, 1982-84.
ALA Activities: LIRT Chair, 5 year Financial Planning Committee, 1998-1999; LIRT Treasurer, 1996-1998; LIRT Public Relations/ Membership Committee, 1993-1995.
Statement of Professional Concerns: Library instruction, whether conducted in groups in a traditional classroom setting or one-on one with users as needed, has become increasingly more important as libraries have added new technologies and electronic resources to their collections. As a public librarian who serves the “average guy/gal on the street”, I feel a particularly strong commitment to teaching information-gathering skills to those who do not have the opportunity or means to acquire and comprehend information on complex subjects and issues. Libraries are providing users with access to this information in many different formats -periodicals, books, online databases, CD-ROM products, the Internet, etc. - and must now recognize the ongoing need for instruction to accompany this access. Libraries of all kinds - public, academic, school, special, - share the responsibility for teaching our users how to locate and evaluate information from the vast variety of sources available.
Judy Clarence, Candidate for Secretary
Music Librarian and Instructional and Interpretive Services Librarian, California State University, Hayward, 1990 -.
B.A., John F. Kennedy University, 1980; M.L.I.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1982.
ALA Activities: MARS, Publications Committee, 1999- ; LIRT Newsletter Committee 1991-95, Chair and Editor, 1993-1995; LIRT Long-Range Planning Committee 1995-97; LIRT PR/Membership Committee 1997-1999.
Statement of Professional Concerns: I happily welcome the opportunity to serve LIRT in the capacity of Secretary. As an active instruction librarian I enjoy the opportunities LIRT provides to share ideas, experiences, problems and solutions with other instruction librarians from public, school and special as well as academic libraries. Additionally, I have observed, appreciated, and participated in LIRT's hard work to assure that Library Instruction remains central to ALA's mission and vision; this hard work has resulted in greater awareness of instructional activities within and outside of our profession. I served on the LIRT Steering Committee several years ago as Editor of the LIRT Newsletter and Chair of the Newsletter Committee, and now-after nine years of LIRT committee involvement - I feel ready to again take on a leadership role.
Kari Lucas, Candidate for Secretary
Head, Undergraduate Library, University of California, San Diego.
Grand Valley State University, 1979; University of Michigan, 1981.
ALA Activities: ACRL/IS/Management of Instruction Services Chair, 1996; LIRT President 1997-98; LIRT Conference Program.
Statement of Professional Concerns: In addition to being timely and accurate, the LIRT Secretary must have a broad understanding of LIRT organizationally to make the minutes of the meeting understandable.
Marcia King-Blandford, Candidate for Treasurer/Vice-Treasurer
Coordinator, Information and Instruction Services, University of Toledo, Carlson Library, 1991- .
A.M.L.S., University of Michigan, 1981; M. Ed, Educational Leadership, Western Kentucky University, 1979.
ALA Activities: LIRT Public Relations/Membership, 1997-1999; LIRT Annual Program Committee, Chair, 1997; ACRL-STS General Discussion Group, Co-Chair, 1996-1998.
Statement of Professional Concerns: I want librarians to be the visible leaders of the integration of the Internet into our daily lives. Librarians possess the skills and knowledge to assist people to meet their information needs in a timely and efficient manner. People are excited and overwhelmed with the presence of the Internet. They are starting to recognize the importance of managing information knowledge. For generations, librarians have been the backbone of information and knowledge. Now is the time for librarians to step forward and lead the way. LIRT with its acceptance of all libraries and all librarians is the right organizations at the right times!
Haiwang Yuan, Candidate for Treasurer/Vice-Treasurer
Website & Virtual Library Coordinator, Western Kentucky University Libraries & Museum, 1998- .
M.S. of Art (History), Indiana University, 1990; M.L.S., Indiana University, 1995.
ALA Activities: LIRT Computer Applications Committee 1998-1999, Chair 1999-2000.
Statement of Professional Concerns: As information technology develops at the speed of 60 days of a year, assisting patrons in searching of information is becoming a profession. I will commit myself in promoting the cause of making library instruction part of college/university library and information science programs. Not only should library schools train their students to be librarians and information specialists, they should also training them to be information instructors at the same time. I will commit myself in promoting the cause of encouraging libraries to provide training for librarians to become competent in information literacy and teaching. I am also concerned about the issue of the possible increase of the computer and therefore information haves and have-nots, which will not only become a national but also a global issue. My third concern is that I will encourage libraries to become information portals, providing to patrons what commercial ISPs can and cannot do.
LIRT News,
March 2000. Volume 22, number 3.
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