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CHICAGO ⎯ Julie Garrison, dean of University Libraries at Western Michigan University, has been elected Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) vice-president/president-elect. She will become president-elect in July 2020 and assume the presidency in July 2021 for a one-year term.

Jessica Brangiel, electronic resources management librarian at Swarthmore College, and Toni Anaya, interim coordinator of user experience and associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, have been elected to the ACRL Board of Directors as director-at-large.

"I am honored and thrilled to be elected to serve as ACRL's next leader," Garrison said. "We are facing dramatic times in our world and within our association; I expect the next three years will be intense. I am eager to join ACRL's amazing staff, Board of Directors, and fellow members in doing the challenging and rewarding work that lies ahead. I want to express my gratitude to Lynn Silipigni Connaway, as well as all of the groups and members we interacted with during the election process, for making this a positive and informative experience."

During her 17 years of ACRL membership, Garrison has served as director-at-large on the ACRL Board of Directors (2012-16) and was a member of the ACRL Project Outcome Task Force (2017-18), the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education Task Force (2017) and the ACRL Research Coordinating Committee (2008-11), where she also served as chair (2010-11). She served as a member of the ACRL/DLS Guidelines Committee (2005-07), and the ACRL/DLS Web Committee (2003-07), where she also served as chair (2004-07).

"I am delighted to welcome Julie Garrison back to the ACRL Board of Directors as vice-president/president-elect," said ACRL Executive Director Mary Ellen K. Davis. "During her time on the ACRL Board as director-at-large, Julie was engaged in a number of strategic initiatives including the adoption of the groundbreaking Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the transition of ACRL's research journal, College and Research Libraries, to an open access publication. With her previous Board service and knowledge of academic librarianship and higher education, along with as her extensive experience in change management, Julie will be able to immediately contribute to the work of ACRL."

Garrison's work with state, regional, and other national associations includes being a member of the portal: Libraries and the Academy Editorial Board since 2015 and serving as an accreditation commission member of the Council on Interior Design Accreditation (2011-16). She has held numerous positions within the Michigan Academic Library Association including serving as chair of the Advocacy Committee (2017-19) and Administration Section (2016-17). She also served as member-at-large of the Michigan Library Association (MLA) Board of Directors (2011-14) and was chair of the MLA ACRL Task Force (2011). Her other work with MLA includes serving as cochair of Pre-Conference Programs (2005-06) and Annual Meeting Committees (2004-06).

During Garrison's tenure at Grand Valley State University Libraries, they received the Excellence in Academic Libraries Award in the university category (2012). Over the course of her career, she codeveloped one of the first online evidence-based medicine continuing education courses for medical librarians, and planned and executed two successful Off-Campus Library Services Conferences, while serving as the director of OCLS at Central Michigan University. She also planned the inaugural "Re-Think It Conference," while working at Grand Valley State University. She served on the core project team that developed the vision and completed the planning for the new Mary Idema Pew Library at Grand Valley State University, and led the Western Michigan University Libraries faculty and staff through a successful reorganization process designed to remove redundancies, streamline and align workflows, and improve overall efficiencies.

Her publications include coauthoring "Can a Library Building's Design Cue New Behaviors? A Case study," in portal: Libraries and the Academy (2017); "Building a Peer Learning Service for Students in an Academic Library," in portal: Libraries and the Academy (2015); and "SPEC Kit 331: Changing Role of Senior Administrators" for the Association of Research Libraries (2012).

For full ACRL election results, visit the of the ACRL website.

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