Jay Schafer Elected to ARL Board of Directors
NEWS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: 11/28/11
CONTACT: LESLIE SCHALER, (413) 545-0162, lschaler@library.umass.edu
UMASS AMHERST LIBRARIES ANNOUNCE
JAY SCHAFER ELECTED TO ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Amherst, MA - In October, Jay Schafer, director of the UMass Amherst Libraries, was elected to the board of directors of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Schafer was elected by the membership and will serve a three-year term.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. 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, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/.
The Board is the governing body of the Association and represents the interests of ARL member libraries in directing the business of the Association, including establishing operating policies, budgets, and fiscal control; modifying the ARL mission and objectives; and representing ARL to the community.
Jay Schafer has been a member of the UMass Amherst community for the past ten years and has been Director of Libraries since 2004. He earned his degree in librarianship from the University of Denver and served in library administrative positions at a number of institutions including the University of Colorado at Denver.
For more information, contact Carol Connare (cconnare@library.umass.edu, 413-545-0995).
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Last Edited: 28 November 2011
