Summer balloting underway for ASIS officers and directors

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

Roy has been active in ASIS at the chapter, SIG and national levels. He was co-founder of the Wisconsin Chapter and twice president of the Minnesota Chapter. He was a founder of a SIG on educational information and has served as Deputy SIG Cabinet Director, technical program chairman for the 1979 ASIS Annual Meeting, program co-chair for the 1985 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting; member of the membership and awards and honors committees and chair of the professional development committee. Roy is a Watson Davis Award winner.

Merri Beth Lavagnino is library systems director at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned a BS in elementary education from Temple University and an MLS with a concentration in library automation from Indiana University. She worked as a second grade teacher and also in circulation, interlibrary loan, data entry and serials cataloging at several university libraries before beginning her professional career as a systems librarian. Her professional experience at Yale University, the University of Vermont and the University of Illinois have given her a broad background for advancing ideas on uses of technology in library and information science.

Within ASIS, Merri Beth is a member of SIGs/LAN, MGT and VIS and has been both secretary and newsletter editor for SIG/ LAN. She has been an active member of the Standards Committee and is also the founder and co-listowner of the ASIS-L listserv. After creating and moderating many SIG sessions, she was elected to the SIG Cabinet Steering Committee. Currently she is working as SIG Sessions Coordinator for the ASIS 1996 Annual Meeting Technical Program Committee. Her biggest rewards in ASIS have been winning the James M. Cretsos Leadership Award in 1994 and the SIG Member-of-the-Year Award in 1995.

Abby A. Goodrum has been an active member of ASIS since 1991. She has served on the SIG Cabinet Steering Committee since 1994 and is a founding member and current communications officer for SIG/ VIS, where she created and maintains an electronic newsletter and web page. She has served on the Continuing Education Committee and as chair of SIG/TIS. She cochaired the North Texas Student Chapter's International Information Science Student Conference and served as membership chair for the chapter in 1994 when it won the ASIS award for best student chapter. She has been a frequent moderator and speaker at local and national ASIS conferences and has contributed to the Bulletin. Abby worked as a librarian for IBM and CNN and is currently a doctoral candidate in information science at the University of North Texas.

Candidates for Director-at-Large, 1997-1998 (partial term)

Tom Kinney is a library liaison officer at AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, Inc., a Dallas-based regional library network, where he provides training and support to libraries in the Southwest. He served previously as systems librarian at the Superconducting Super Collider and as assistant head of library systems at the University of Florida. He has a BS in biochemistry, an MS in chemical engineering from Michigan State University and an MLS in library science from the University of Michigan.