Election Special

ASDAL ACTION 2019 ASDAL ELECTION SPECIAL ASDAL ACTION | SUPPLEMENT 2019 1 ASDAL Action Volume 38, No. S1 | Supplement 2019 ISSN 1523-8997 Editor Neal Smith contents About ASDAL ASDAL is an organization for individuals interested in Seventh-day Adventist librarianship. The Association was formed to enhance communication between Seventh-day Adventist librarians, and to promote librarianship and library services to Seventh-day Adventist institutions. The association holds an Annual Conference, publishes ASDAL Action, awards the D. Glenn Hilts Scholarship, and is a sponsor of the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index. The Adventist Library Information Cooperative (ALICE), is a service provided by the Association to give Member Libraries enhanced database access opportunities at reduced cost through collective efforts and resource sharing within the Cooperative. CANDIDATES Letters to the Editor President-elect We welcome your comments and questions. 3 Please submit letters to the editor to [email protected] 5 Secretary Membership is open to those who support the 7 Treasurer goals of the Association. Members receive a one- year subscription to ASDAL Action and discounted conference registration. 9 Constitution and Bylaws Committee Get Involved with ASDAL 11 SDA Periodical Index Advisory All members are invited to get involved in Committee ASDAL. ON the ASDAL website, select Get Involved on the quick links. 12 Site Planning Committee ASDAL Executive Committee President: Lori Curtis President-elect: Katy Van Arsdale Past President: Per Lisle Secretary: Heather Rodriguez-James Interim Treasurer: Lori Curtis ASDAL Action Editor: Neal Smith 2 ASDAL ACTION | SUPPLEMENT 2019 ELECTIONS PRESIDENT-ELECT (CHOOSE ONE CANDIDATE) Ashlee Chism, MSI Research Center Manager – Office of Ashlee Chism is originally from the U.S. state of Archives, Statistics, and Research Indiana, but now makes her home in Maryland, working as the Research Center Manager at the General Conference of Seventh-day Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research, which is Adventists a part of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. She earned a Master of Science in Information, specializing in archives and records management, from the University of Michigan, and has been a member of ASDAL since 2014 or so. She is passionate about making archival materials accessible as broadly as possible and telling stories about Adventist history with those materials. (The stories are fact-based, of course.) Her current research interests include Adventist literary culture, lesser known Adventists (especially women), and, on a completely unrelated-to-Adventists tangent, piracy and pirates (as in the illegal seizure of ships and other sea-going vessels and those who engage in that practice). When she’s not working or researching, you can find her reading, exercising, or listening to podcasts. ASDAL ACTION | SUPPLEMENT 2019 3 ELECTIONS PRESIDENT-ELECT (CHOOSE ONE CANDIDATE) Adorée Hatton, BA (English), MA (Librarianship) Adorée was hired as the first University Archivist at University Archivist & Writing Centre Burman University in 2015. She is responsible for transitioning the archive from a volunteer-based Coordinator - Burman University department to a professional university archive. She works with faculty, alumni, and students to support research projects and university advancement. Adorée was also responsible for creating a Writing Centre on campus and continues to coordinate the program to provide tutoring and writing assistance to students and faculty. Adorée has been a member of ASDAL since 2015, is currently ASDAL Membership Coordinator, and sits on the Adventist Resources Working Committee, the Archives and Records Management Section Steering Committee, and the SDA Classification Advisory Committee. She was also a member of the Local Arrangements Committee during the ASDAL conference hosted at Burman University in 2018. Outside of work, Adorée spends her time with family and friends in Lacombe, Alberta, and dreams of travel. She has already visited China, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Germany, and France. The next place on her wish list is a tour of the Balkan countries. She also enjoys cooking and journaling. 4 ASDAL ACTION | SUPPLEMENT 2019 ELECTIONS SECRETARY (CHOOSE ONE CANDIDATE) Jason St Clair, BA MS Technical Services Librarian – Nelson My career in libraries began as a student assistant at Memorial Library, Pacific Union College Walla Walla College. After graduating in 2005, I was hired to manage the Media Center and then the Circulation Department. During this time, I completed my masters degree online through Drexel University. In 2013 I was hired at Andrews University to manage the Interlibrary Loan Department, which quickly (and surprisingly) led to my promotion to Head of Patron Services. Desiring a return to the Pacific coast, in 2017 I accepted the job of Technical Services Librarian at Pacific Union College, which has given me the chance to round out my library skills with experience in instruction and periodicals while also concentrating on my two favorite areas of library work, cataloging and collection development. My wife, Becky, and I have been married since 2004, and we have 3 children (2 girls and 1 boy) with whom we enjoy travelling, reading, and playing games. ASDAL ACTION | SUPPLEMENT 2019 5 ELECTIONS SECRETARY (CHOOSE ONE CANDIDATE) Ruth M Swan Retired Library Administrator Thank you for considering my name for the position of ASDAL Secretary for the 2019 election. This biographical sketch comes to introduce and reintroduce me to the membership. I have been a member of ASDAL for most of my career and have had the opportunity to assist ASDAL with site coordination and membership, as a frequent conference presenter, and as president Academically, I have earned two degrees at the masters level and a doctoral degree in information studies. I have enjoyed being on the other side of the desk as well, initially as an elementary teacher (Allegheny East Conference of SDA), university tenured professor, and media librarian (Oakwood College), and then as a library administer as Associate Director of Libraries and Interim Director of Libraries (Florida A&M University). Additionally, I have served as adjunct instructor for several universities and provided volunteer, consulting, and fundraising assistance to our schools nationally and internationally. My current professional memberships include ASDAL, the Alabama Library Association (ALLA), the American Library Association (ALA), and the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). I reside in Madison, Alabama, USA. 6 ASDAL ACTION | SUPPLEMENT 2019 ELECTIONS TREASURER (CHOOSE ONE CANDIDATE) Lori N Curtis, MA MLS Librarian and Archivist WORK HISTORY: 1987-2006 – Assistant Curator of Special Collections / Associate Curator of Special Collections / Head of Special Collections and Archives, University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) 2006 – 2019 – Archivist / Associate Chair / Chair, Department of Archives and Special Collections, Heritage Research Center, and University Archivist, Loma Linda University. Liaison Librarian to the School of Religion. Special collections cataloger. Currently involved in the following professional organizations: Society of California Archivists Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences American Association for the History of Medicine American Theological Library Association Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians Adventist Resources Section Working EDUCATION: Committee—2006-2018 B.S. Social Studies/History – Pacific Union College Archives and Records Management (1980) Section—2014-2018 M.A. English History and Early Modern European President-elect / President / Past History – University of California – Riverside (1983). President—2013-2016 Thesis: 18th and 19th Century Electoral Behavior in Treasurer—2018-2011 the town of Lewes. SDA Classification Advisory M.L.S. Special Collections and Rare Book Cataloging Committee—2016-2019 – University of California – Los Angeles (1987). Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians Thesis: State and Future of Rare Book Cataloging ASDAL ACTION | SUPPLEMENT 2019 7 ELECTIONS TREASURER (CHOOSE ONE CANDIDATE) Neal Smith Jr, MS JD Scholarly Communications Librarian - Neal Smith is the Scholarly Communications and R.A. Williams Library, AdventHealth Digital Services Librarian at AdventHealth University. He specializes in copyright education and University electronic systems. He builds and maintains digital research platforms for the R.A. Williams Library, supports faculty scholarship, and answers research and reference questions. Prior to joining the faculty at AHU, Neal worked as an intern at the U.S. Copyright Office and a legal reference librarian at the Western New England University School of Law. Neal has an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College and a JD from the University of New Hampshire School of Law, where he served as notes editor for IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review. Neal has been part of ASDAL since 2016, when he served on the Local Planning Committee for the conference held at AdventHealth University. In 2018, he was elected ASDAL Action Editor. Neal looks forward to continuing to be part of the future of ASDAL. 8 ASDAL ACTION | SUPPLEMENT 2019 ELECTIONS CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE (2 VACANCIES) Darel Bennedbaek, MLIS Librarian Darel earned his BA Hons in English Literature from the University of

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