The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors has appointed Elliott Shore as Executive Director of the Association, effective January 1, 2013. Dr. Shore is currently Chief Information Officer, Constance A. Jones Director of Libraries, and Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.
ARL President Winston Tabb, the Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins University, announced Dr. Shore's appointment via e-mail to the ARL membership.
Since 1997, Dr. Shore has served as the Constance A. Jones Director of Libraries and Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College, one of the top liberal arts colleges in the US. In 2002, he was appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the college. As Director of Libraries, Dr. Shore modernised and streamlined library operations by combining departments, realigning collections appropriations, and adding new areas of collection development. He served as co-principal investigator on three grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation totalling $1 million, focusing on collaborative collection development and the use of technology in teaching and learning.
Dr. Shore has been active in the library profession for many years. Among his numerous activities, he has been a leader in the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic Libraries program since its inception in 2003 and a CLIR Senior Presidential Fellow since 2008. He has published widely, delivered numerous papers and workshops, and taught courses in US history with an emphasis on American radicalism and in librarianship, focusing on collection development, technology, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
