Alesia McManus, director of the Howard Community College Library, Columbia, Maryland, has been elected the 2016-2017 new vice-president/president-Elect of Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association.
Prior to her current position, McManus was head of Research and Instructional Services at Binghamton University from 2006-2010. Highlights of her professional service to RUSA include serving on the RUSA Board as a director-at-large, serving as RUSA representative to the ALA Legislation Assembly and chairing the Task Force on Legislative Issues, as well as serving in multiple roles within ET (formally MARS) including member-at-large, Web coordinator and co-chair of the MARS/RSS Pre-conference Planning Committee.
McManus becomes RUSA's new vice-president/president-elect immediately and will assume the RUSA presidency in June 2016 for one year.
Also on the ballot were RUSA members Mary Parker, associate director, Minitex, Minneapolis, and Aaron Dobbs, scholarly communication and electronic resource development librarian at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
RUSA is the foremost organisation of reference and information professionals who make the connections between people and the information sources, services, and collection materials they need. RUSA supports excellence in the delivery of general library services and materials, and the provision of reference advisory, and resource sharing for all ages, in every type of library.
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