FYI...
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Polly Trump, MLS
Fine Arts Librarian
University of Arizona
PO Box 210075
Tucson, AZ 85721-0075
520.621.2049 (voice)
520.626-1630 (fax)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Irwin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 1:08 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Brooke Sheldon announces retirement
Brooke E. Sheldon, Director, School of Information Resources and Library
Science, University of Arizona, has announced her resignation from that
position. Sheldon will leave not later than May 31, 2004, or as soon as a
successor has been named. A search committee, chaired by Chris Segrin, Head
of the Department of Communication at U. of A., is now recruiting for the
new director.
SIRLS has an enrollment of 200+ students, up from 81 in the fall of 200l, a
Master's program, a PhD program, and an undergraduate minor. The School is
noted for its unique combination of face-to-face, online, and blended
courses as well as its interdisciplinary emphasis.
During the past three years the School has substantially increased its
faculty, and the diversity of its faculty, and has developed a business plan
and program fee schedule that projects substantive resources to achieve its
long-range goals. This month more than 25 students will have graduated from
its nationally recognized diversity initiative, Knowledge River, making a
significant impact on the numbers of Hispanics and Native Americans coming
into the profession. More than one million dollars in grant monies from
federal (IMLS) and private foundations (Trejo and others) have contributed
to its success, but SIRLS has also taken strong measures to institutionalize
the project through the establishment of a KR Director position and
substantial financial aid for KR students. Patricia Tarin is Knowledge River
Director. A major feature of Knowledge River is its multi-cultural
curriculum featuring distinguished campus and other nationally acknowledged
professional and academic leaders.
The School has successfully overcome a threat of closure (a threat made
despite excellent reports from two external academic program review site
teams--COA and the U. of A. Provost?s seven-year review). Its new faculty is
substantially contributing to the strong research profile of the School.
Over the past year research contracts and grants totaled approximately
$500,000, and development efforts garnered $l.5 million in planned gifts.
Sheldon will "retire" again (having "failed" retirement from the University
of Texas at Austin in 2000) after a long career in public and state library
development (Detroit PL, US Air Force and Army, New Mexico, Alaska) and
twenty-two years in "Deaning" at Texas Woman's University, The University of
Texas at Austin, and Arizona. She is a former President (1984) of the
American Library Association and holds an honorary DCL (Doctor of Civil
Laws) from Acadia University in Canada, and Distinguished Alumna Awards from
Simmons and Pittsburgh.
Sheldon says, "Arizona has been a real challenge, but at this juncture I
believe it has the faculty and the fiscal potential to become a top LIS
school. It has enormous support from the State Library, from its
constituents, and from our college and campus leaders. I look forward to
observing (from a mountain top in Santa Fe) SIRLS's development under new
leadership."
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