Summer balloting underway for ASIS officers and directors

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, Aug/Sep 1996

The annual process of electing new of officers and directors for the American Society for Information Science is underway with eight candidates vying for four available seats on the Board of Directors.

All ASIS members are invited and urged to exercise their privilege to vote for the individuals who will help lead the organization into the 21st century.

The following individuals are seeking the positions noted in voting which is now underway (the order was chosen by lot): President-elect for the 1997 ASIS administrative year and succession to the presidency in 1998: Robert Gresehover and Michael Buckland.

Directors-at-Large for the 1997-1999 administrative years (two directors to be elected): Roy Tally, Merri Beth Lavagnino, Ellen Sleeter and Abby Goodrum. Replacement Director-at-Large to fill an unexpired term from October 1996 through October 1998: Thomas Kinney and Bonnie Lawlor.

According to the ASIS bylaws, the candidate(s) having the largest plurality will be elected. If two or more candidates have the same number of votes, the tie will be broken by lot.

Ballot forms for the election of officers and directors have been mailed to all eligible voters. Specific instructions included with the ballot materials must be followed in order for votes to count. Ballots must be received at ASIS headquarters by September 13, 1996.

Candidates for President-elect, 1997 Bob Gresehover is director of the Gibson Library of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Previously, he held the position of deputy director of the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University. Bob has a BS degree in biological science from Michigan State University, an MLS from the University of Maryland and an MS in administration from Johns Hopkins. Bob has been an active member of ASIS since 1984. He has been communications officer and chair of SIG/MGT, and he has served as chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for the ASIS 1994 Annual Meeting. He is presently chair of the Membership Committee.

Michael Buckland is professor and former dean in the School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley. He was educated in England at Oxford University (history) and Sheffield University (library science). He worked in Oxford, Lancaster and Purdue University libraries before moving to Berkeley to be dean (1976-1984) and vice president for library plans and policies in the systemwide administration of the nine University of California campuses (1983-1987).

An ASIS member since 1972, Michael has served as chair of the Technical Committee of the 1991 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting; since 1991 has organized an annual session at the Annual Meeting on the history of information science and, since 1994, an annual session on theory in information science. He is a member of the SIG Cabinet Steering Committee and was active in revitalizing SIG/FIS and expanding it into SIG/ HFIS (History and Foundations of Information Science). He was SIG Member-of-theYear in 1994, and he has contributed eight papers to JASIS and two chapters to ARIST.

Buckland's books include Information and Information Systems (Praeger, 1991 ) and Redesigning Library Services (ALA, 1992).

Candidates for Director-at-Large, 1997-1999

Ellen Sleeter is the network administrator/division head for the Network Services Division of the County of Morris in New Jersey, managing the Morris Automated Information Network. Previous positions have included associate librarian for information systems at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, information systems librarian with the law firm of Davis Polk and Wardwell, U.S. Field Office Network Manager for the Hay Group in Philadelphia and OCLC cataloger at Ohio State in the early days of OCLC and LCS.

A member of ASIS since 1977, Ellen holds a music degree from Bucknell University and an MS in information science from Drexel University. She has served as chair of the Drexel Student Chapter, the Delaware Valley Chapter and the Metro/NY Chapter and as program chair of the Los Angeles Chapter. Additionally, she served as a member of Chapter Assembly Advisory Committee. Within the SIG structure, she has chaired both SIG/AH and SIG/OIS. She chaired CISCO (Committee on Inter-Society Cooperation) and served for several years on the Professionalism Committee, during which time she organized a Professional Leadership Development Program. She was deputy program chair for ASIS ' 84 in Philadelphia, a member of the Technical Program Committee for ASIS '91 and chaired the Technical Program Committee for ASIS '95. Currently, she participates on the 1997 Mid-Year Meeting Program Committee.

Roy Tally is currently a network specialist with IISAC, Minnesota's Intergovernmental Information Systems Advisory Council, and on leave from the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning (formerly Department of Education). Roy began his career in educational information systems in 1968 and joined ASIS in 1970. From that beginning, he developed statewide ERIC systems in Colorado, Wisconsin and Minnesota. He has created information systems, local and wide area networks in state government and is currently advising state, county and municipal government on internetworking.