[Asis-l] New Chair Appointment at SLIS University of Alberta

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Dear Colleagues,



Based on an open search for Chair of the School of Library and Information
Studies (SLIS) at the University of Alberta, and the excellent work of our
Selection Committee in December, I am delighted to announce that Dr. Toni
Samek emerged as the top candidate for this leadership position, and has
agreed to take up the leadership role July 1st, 2015.



Dr. Samek is currently a Professor at SLIS, where she began teaching in
1994. She holds a PhD in Library and Information Studies from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison (1998). Toni’s books include *Intellectual
Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship 1967 to 1974*
 and *Librarianship and Human Rights: A twenty-first century guide*. Her
scholarship has appeared in translation in such countries as Japan, Spain,
Sweden, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Turkey.  An award winning
teacher, Toni received the debut *Library Journal *Teaching Award in 2007,
has been acknowledged with a Faculty of Education Graduate Teaching Award,
and in 2012, she received a 3M National Teaching Fellowship from the
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education - the first scholar
in the field of library and information studies to receive the ‘3M’.



Toni’s professional citizenship includes serving as founding member and
first chair of the Association for Library and Information Science
Education’s Special Interest Group on Information Ethics. She twice chaired
the Canadian Library Association’s Advisory Committee on Intellectual
Freedom and she recently completed two consecutive three-year terms on the
Canadian Association of University Teacher’s Academic Freedom and Tenure
Committee. In recognition of her significant contributions, Toni was
honoured with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and
Information Studies (SLIS) Distinguished Alumna Award in 2013.


 SLIS looks forward to Dr. Samek's leadership!




Anna Altmann
Interim Chair, School of Library and Information Studies
University of Alberta
780-492-3932


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