Lauren Pressley, director of the University of Washington (UW) Tacoma Library and associate dean of UW Libraries, has been elected ACRL vice-president/president-elect. She will become president-elect following the 2017 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago and assume the presidency in July 2018 for a one-year term.
Kelly Jacobsma, Genevra Thome Begg dean of libraries at Hope College, and Jeanne R. Davidson, head of public services at South Dakota State University, have been elected to the ACRL Board of Directors as director-at-large.
During her 13-year membership with ACRL, she has served on the Value of Academic Libraries Committee (2016–present), the ACRL Conference Cyber Zed Shed Committee (2009–11) and on the DLS Program Planning Committee (2010–12). She has also served on the WGSS Instruction Committee (2005–09) and as the WGSS Core Books editor (2007–08).
Pressley currently serves as a councilor-at-large on the ALA Council (2010–present) and as a member of the ALA Resolutions Committee (2013–present). Previously, she served on the ALA Presidential Advisory Committee (2013–14), the Peter Lyman Memorial/SAGE Scholarship in New Media Committee (2008–11), the Emerging Leaders Subcommittee (2009–10) and the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship (2005–09). Her work in LITA includes serving as a LITA Emerging Leader (2008), LITA Committee Chairs coordinator (2014–16), director-at-large on the LITA Board of Directors (2011–14), as a member of the LITA Forum Steering Committee (2012–13) and on the LITA Budget Review Committee (2012–13).
Her work with state, regional and other national associations includes serving on the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project Advisory Board (2010–13), as a founding cochair (2014–16) and advisory board member (2016–present) of Library Pipeline, as secretary/treasurer for the North Carolina Library Association’s Technology and Trends Round Table (2008–09) and cofounder of the NC-Library Instructional Technology Group (2008).
She is a member of Beta Phi Mu and was a participant in the University of California-Los Angeles’s Senior Fellows executive leadership program (2014). She was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Early Career Award at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, School of Education (2011), was a Library Journal Mover & Shaker (2009) and participated in the NCLA Leadership Institute (2008).
Full ACRL election results are available on the ACRL website.
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