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Joyce Ogburn 
Joyce L. Ogburn
ACRL President
2011-2012

 

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   Latest News

  • Participated in a board focus group and a survey regarding fundraising and the 75th anniversary
  • Participated in commenting on White House RFI on open access to federally funded research and the response to White RFI on data management
  • Wrote letter to William Boarman, Public Printer of the United States and Mary Alice Baish, Assistant Public Printer, Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing Office (GPO) regarding ACRL's position on recent press coverage and statements related to the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP); posted letter and statement .

       Events

    • Presented ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Awards to Grand Valley State University, March 20, 2012
    • Attended SPARC Open Access meeting in Kansas City, March 12-13, 2012
    • With Mary Ellen Davis and Kara Malenfant presented a project briefing on "Building Capacity for Demonstrating the Value of Academic Libraries: An Update on ACRL's IMLS Funded Project" for the December 14th, 2011 CNI meeting in Crystal City, VA
    • Presented on "The Future of Academic Libraries" at the Missouri Library Association and ACRL Chapter meeting and the Mississippi Library Association and ACRL Chapters meetings, October 6 and 19 2011
    • Attended ARL Meeting, Washington, October 12-15, 2010.

       Press Box

    • Interviewed about San Francisco State University Library’s new robotic storage facility for The Bay Citizen, February 24, 2012
    • Interviewed about library digitization and digital collections by KCBS TV, San Francisco, February 27, 2012
    • Interviewed for comment on Elsevier dropping support for the research Works Act for LJ Newswire, published March 1, 2012"
    • "ACRL Adds Its Voice to Debate With GPO Over Federal Depository Library Program," LJ Insider November 7, 2011; posting of letter was picked up by various newsfeeds and blogs
    • Kiley, Kevin. Integrated Solutions. Insider Higher Ed September, 23, 2011
    • ACRL election and service featured in Alumni News section of School of Library and Information Science@ Carolina, No. 74, Winter 2010.
    • Recorded interview at the ACRL 2011 Conference, March 31, 2011, with Bob Kieserman with Kieserman Media on recent topics and trends in today’s academic libraries, the ACRL conference, the future of academic libraries, librarians, etc. Bob is the publisher of the monthly online journal “Library Management Today” and host of The Library Radio Network, a podcast station featuring recorded interviews with library leaders and also hosts a monthly radio magazine called “Library Perspectives.”
    • “Kudos section of FYI: News for Faculty and Staff, June 9, University of Utah” -
    • “UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science Alumni News and Website, May 11” -

       Biographical Information

    Joyce L. Ogburn, Special Assistant to the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of Utah Marriott Library, holds the elected office ACRL president-elect and will assume the presidency in July 2011 for a one-year term.

    "Being chosen to lead ACRL as vice-president/president-elect is the highlight of my career,” Ogburn said. “I am enormously grateful for the confidence of the members in my leadership skills and will do my utmost to advance ACRL’s initiatives and programs."

    Her activities in ACRL include serving as the scholarly communications column editor for C&RL News (2006-2009), as co-chair of the Scholarly Communications Committee (2006-08), and as a member of the Choice Editorial Board (2000-04).  She was the founder and editor of ANSSWeb (1995-2003), and was chair of the Anthropology and Sociology Section (ANSS) (1997-98).  Joyce also served as editor of ANSS Currents (1996-97).

    Her ALA activities include serving as chair of the ALCTS Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research Libraries (2004-05), and as chair of the ALCTS Acquisition of Library Materials Section Education Committee (1991-92).  She was a member of the ALA Library Education Assembly (1990-92), and was chair of the ALCTS Education Committee (1990-91).

    Joyce’s work with state and regional associations includes serving on the Greater Western Library Alliance Board of Directors (2009-present), and serving on the Association of Research Libraries Scholarly Communications Steering Committee (2008-present).  She is a member of the Center for Research Libraries Board of Directors (2007-present), and she served on the SPARC Steering Committee (2005-07).  She was also  a member of the American Anthropological Association Librarians Advisory Group (2001-05).

    Joyce was a UCLA Senior Fellow (2001), and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa (1978).
     
    Her publications include author of, "Moderately Risky Business: Challenging Librarians to Assume More Risk in an Era of Opportunity," Ris k and Entrepreneurship in Libraries: Seizing Opportunities for Change (ALA/ALCTS), 2009; author, "Defining and Achieving Success in the Movement to Change Scholarly Communication," Library Resources and Technical Services, 2008; and co-author, Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communications: A Call for Community Engagement (ACRL), 2007.

    Ogburn received her master’s of library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She received her master’s degree in Anthropology from Indiana University, and earned her bachelor of arts degree in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 

    From 1999-2005, she was associate director at the University of Washington.  Prior to that, she was assistance university library at Old Dominion University (1996-99).   She served as chief acquisitions librarian at Yale University (1991-96), and was an acquisitions librarian at Penn State University (1984-91).