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Yasmeen Shorish
ACRL Vice-President/President-Elect
2026-2027
 

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Biographical Information

Yasmeen Shorish is a Professor and Associate Dean for Research & Scholarly Communications at James Madison University Libraries, and the Special Advisor to the Provost on AI. Her research focuses on equitable models in scholarly communications, data ethics and privacy, responsible AI, and issues related to representation. She co-authored the Vancouver Statement on Collections as Data (2023) , has participated in international projects related to digitization of cultural heritage, and is part of the IMLS-funded Responsible AI grant team, which produced the Viewfinder toolkit. 

Yasmeen has served in a variety of roles within ACRL, as a founding member of the Digital Curation Interest Group and later the Chair of the goal area Research and Scholarly Environment Committee (ReSEC). While chair of ReSEC, she helped create the scholarly communications research agenda, Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications. In addition to ACRL, Yasmeen is a member of APALA and RDAP and serves on the SPARC Steering Committee.

Education
MS LIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS Biology, Northeastern Illinois University
BFA Theatre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign