KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Camila Alire
Dean of Library Services
University of New Mexico
ACRL President 2005-2006

Camila Alire is the dean of library services at the University of New Mexico, a position she has held since 2002. From 1997-01, she was the dean of university libraries at Colorado State University. She was also dean of libraries at the University of Colorado at Denver (1991-97), and, prior to that, was director of the learning resources center at Pikes Peak Community College (1984-89).

Her activities in ALA divisions include serving as chair of the 2005 ACRL National Conference, (2003-05), and as the Local Arrangements co-chair of the 2001 National Conference Executive Committee (1999-01). Alire was also active on the ACRL Budget and Finance Committee (1991-95), the College and Research Libraries News Editorial Advisory Board (1996-99), and the Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS) Executive Board (1989-91).

Among her ALA activities are service on ALA Council (1997-03); Executive Board (2000-03); Finance and Audit Committee (2000-03); American Libraries, chair (1997-99); Executive Director Search Committee, chair (1997-98); Education Committee, chair (1996); Nominating Committee, chair (1995); Accreditation Site Visitation Teams, (1989, 1991, 1994, 2000).

Alire’s activities in REFORMA include the Executive Board (1987,1989-95, 1999-00); the Education Committee, chair (1999-00); the National Conference Steering Committee, Fundraising chair (1995-97); the National President (1993-94); and the Finance Committee, chair (1994-95).

Her work with state and regional associations has included membership in the Colorado Library Association, with service on its Program Committee (1997); Special Events for Conference Committee, chair (1991); Legislative Committee, chair (1991-94); Local Arrangements Committee, co-chair (1998-89); Education Committee, chair (1986-87). Since 2002, Alire has also been involved with the New Mexico Library Association, and the Mountain Plains Library Association.

She is also involved with the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), where she is currently on the Executive Board (2003-2006), and the Leadership Committee (2000). In addition, she was active on the Diversity Committee (1998-00).

Alire was awarded the ALA Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award (1997), the Mountain Plains Library Association Legislative Leadership Award, and the CLA Exemplary Library Services to Ethnic Populations Award (1995 & 1998).

Her publications include Library Disaster Planning and Recovery Handbook, Editor/Contributor, 2000; Serving Latino Communities, Co-author, 1998; “Minorities and the Symbolic Potential of the Academic Library,” Co-author, College and Research Libraries, Nov., 1995.

Alire received her bachelor of arts degree from Adams State College and her master’s of library science from the University of Denver. She also received her Ed.D. from the University of Northern Colorado.

Pre-Conference Workshop

Preservation (on what feels like) pennies a day
Presented by Brian Baird

About the Program:
Libraries of all size recognize the responsibility they have for preserving the collections. But, preservation of small academic library collections is often a difficult challenge due to the constant obstacles of limited funding, insufficient staffing, and lack of expertise. For this reason the preservation strategies presented in this workshop are designed to reduce immediate and long-term costs, and strengthen the library’s collection development goals.

Preservation efforts are most effective when they take a pragmatic approach. Few libraries can afford to have ideal preservation programs that fully address the needs of their collections. Therefore, this workshop is designed to help libraries learn to identify areas of concern, optimize the use of resources put towards preservation, and establish goals for continual improvement over time as additional resources come available.

This workshop is designed as a general overview to provide librarians with practical information to help them grapple with specific preservation challenges. The workshop will cover:

• Environmental conditions for libraries
• Understanding the preservation challenges facing library collections—both paper and electronic
• Preservation and collections assessment
• Identifying the preservation resources a library has readily available
• Conservation treatment, binding, and reformatting
• Disaster planning

Participants are encouraged to bring real life problems and examples to the workshop that can enhance group discussion. Learning is done best when discussing real life issues, and when participants take an active part in the discussion and learning process.

About the presenter:
Baird has been actively involved in library conservation and preservation activities for more than 15 years. He served as a conservator at Princeton University before moving to the University of Kansas to establish their nationally recognized preservation program. He also enjoyed opportunities he had in Kansas to work cooperatively with other educational institutions in the area by providing conservation and consultation services on a cost recovery basis. He also taught conservation and preservation courses in the KU Museum Studies Program and at the Emporia State University School of Library and Information Management.

Baird joined Heckman Bindery as their Director of Preservation Services in the spring of 2004. He was attracted to the position because it gave him the opportunity to offer preservation services to a nation-wide audience—especially those libraries not large enough to have full time preservation staff.

LUNCHEON SPEAKER

" A Scholar Without a Librarian is. . . ."

Presented by Bunny McBride
Adjunct Lecturer of Cultural Anthropology
Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
204 Waters Hall, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
Email: bmcb@ksu.edu

A writer with a Masters in Anthropology, Bunny McBride writes often on cultural survival and wildlife conservation themes – and says her work would be impossible without libraries and the knowledge and goodwill of librarians! Her books include Women of the Dawn (Friends of American Writers Literary Award winner, University of Nebraska Press, 1999), Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris (Pulitzer nominee, University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), and Our Lives in Our Hands: Micmac Indian Basketmakers (Tilbury House and Nimbus, 1990). Working in close collaboration with Native American communities, she curated museum exhibits based on these books.

McBride is also co-author of The National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife (Knopf, 1995) and three major introductory textbooks: Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge; Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge; and a combined volume Anthropology: The Human Challenge (Thomson Learning/Wadsworth, 2004). From 1978-88 McBride wrote regularly for the international newspaper The Christian Science Monitor from far-flung points around the globe. She has contributed to many other papers and magazines and has chapters in a dozen books. From 1981-1991 she and her husband, Dutch anthropologist Harald Prins (a KSU professor), did historical research and community development work for the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians in Maine – resulting in legislation by US Congress granting the band federal recognition and funds to buy back aboriginal land. In 1999 the Maine state legislature gave McBride a special commendation for her research and writing on the history of Native women in the state – an honor initiated by tribal representatives in the legislature. An adjunct lecturer of anthropology at Kansas State University since 1996, McBride has taught anthropology and writing at various institutions since 1981. Currently she serves as co-principal investigator for a National Parks Service ethnographic research project, oral history advisor for the Kansas Humanities Council, and board member of the Women's World Summit Foundation, based in Geneva, Switzerland.

For more information, see her website: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~bmcb

For more information contact:
Marcia Stockham at Kansas State University
stockham@lib.ksu.edu
785.532.7161

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