Library Association Bio

Library Association Bio

The aim of this document is to give a brief summary of my professional experience in library associations in the US, Mexico and at IFLA.

 

USA Library Associations

  • Member, American Library Association (ALA), 1976-Present; Special Libraries Association (SLA), 1992-Present; Border Regional Library Association (BRLA) El Paso, TX, 1996-Present; and REFORMA, 1979-Present 
  • Virtual Member, Membership Committee, American Library Association (ALA), 2004-2007
  • Co-Chair, ALA President’s Program, Sarah Long, 2002
  • Board of Directors Member, Special Libraries Association (USA), 2002-2005, the first foreign Director to be a member of this body
  • Advisory member of the Global 2000 Conference, and member of other committees, such as the Nominating Committee
  • Board Member, Trejo Foster Foundation for Hispanic Library Education (TFF), USA, 2001-Present
  • Participant, Transborder Library Forum (FORO / US-Mexico), implemented in 1991 to strengthen American and Mexican library relations, 1991-Present

 

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

  • Member (Co-Opted) of the Governing Board, 2007-2009
  • Chair, Information Literacy Section, 2002-2007
  • Chair and Secretary, Round Table on User Education, 1999-2002
  • Information Officer, Division 7, Library Theory and Research
  • Secretary, Division 7, Library Theory and Research
  • Information Officer, University Libraries Section

 

IFLA Information Literacy Section

  • Author, ”International Information Literacy Guidelines for Life Long Learning”, translated into Korean, Russian, Malay, Portuguese, German, Spanish and French.
  • Coordinator, ”International Information Literacy State-of-the-Art Report”
  • Coordinator, ”International Information Literacy Resources Directory”, www.infolitglobal.info
  • Chair, International Information Literacy Logo Contest, www.infolitglobal.info/logo
  • Monograph, Information Literacy: International Perspectives, Munchen, K.G. Saur (IFLA), 2008

 

Mexican Library Association (AMBAC) 

  • President-Elect, 2007-2009
  • Secretary and Deputy Secretary
  • Deputy Treasurer
  • Chair, International Relations Committee, various years
  • Founding member and President, Durango AMBAC Chapter (1989-1981)
  • Founding member of the Chihuahua Library Association (1999)
  • Member of other Mexican library associations, such as CONPAB, ASAR, Etc.