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.