UM Libraries Dean Charles Lowry Elected to Serve Three-Year Term

Washington, DC – Board elections were held during the Fall Membership meeting of the Association of Research Libraries. Three new Board members were elected by the membership to serve three-year terms: Brinley Franklin, Vice Provost, University Libraries, University of Connecticut; Charles B. Lowry, Dean of Libraries, University of Maryland, College Park; and Jennifer A. Younger, Edward H. Arnold Director of University Libraries, University of Notre Dame.

“I am extremely pleased to be asked by my colleagues to serve on the ARL Board,” said Dean Lowry. “It is both a singular honor and responsibility, particularly at a time of immense challenge for research libraries. The Association has become one of the main forces for positive change in scholarly communication, with all that means for higher education teaching and research.”

In addition to the election of new Board members, Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University Librarian, University of California, San Diego, began a one-year term as President of the Association of Research Libraries on October 27, 2005, during the ARL Fall Membership Meeting held in Washington, DC. He succeeds Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wolpert continues to serve as a member of the ARL Board of Directors and Executive Committee as Past President. Also on October 27, the membership ratified the Board of Directors election of Sherrie Schmidt, University Librarian and Dean, University Libraries, Arizona State University, as ARL Vice President/President-Elect.

The Board is the governing body of the Association and represents the interest 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.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the 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, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is located on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.

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