6/7/01
AU LIBRARY DEAN NEW PRESIDENT OF SOUTHEASTERN ORGANIZATION
AUBURN -- Stella Bentley, dean of Auburn University Libraries, has been elected president of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries.
Bentley, who joined AU in 1997, will lead the ASERL Board of Directors during the 2001-02 year.
In the coming year, the ASERL board and its members will focus on continuing program development for its members. This includes the expansion of Kudzu, a shared catalog system that links information among 14 ASERL libraries; the promulgation of its competency guidelines for research librarians; and the development of a cooperative virtual reference service, which is anticipated to be in pilot testing by the end of the year.
Founded in 1956, ASERL is the largest regional academic library cooperative in the country, with 35 research libraries and eight state libraries. ASERL was a founding member of SOLINET and established SOLINET's licensing program.