Missouri's John Budd is Alise President-Elect

John Budd, University of Missouri professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, has been elected 2005 president of the Association of Library and Information Science Education (Alise). As a result of the election, he will serve as 2005 president-elect, and will take office as Association president at Alises 2006 annual conference in January in San Antonio, Texas.

(PRWEB) January 29, 2005 -- John Budd, University of Missouri professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, has been elected 2005 president of the Association of Library and Information Science Education (Alise). As a result of the election, he will serve as 2005 president-elect, and will take office as Association president at Alises 2006 annual conference in January in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Budd is Associate Director and Professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies of the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has been an active member of Alise since 1987 and has served on several committees and task forces over the years. Most recently, he was co-chair, with Marie Radford, of the Conference Program Planning Committee for the 2004 Alise Annual Conference in San Diego. He is an active member of the American Library Association (ALA) and has served on committees and in elected offices in the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), and the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA). He has been a member of education committees within ALCTS and RUSA and has served as editor of the ALCTS journal Library Resources & Technical Services.

Budd is committed to scholarship and education in a variety of aspects of library and information studies. His recent book, Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science: A Philosophical Framework, won ALA's Highsmith Award in 2002. He has earned a bachelor's degree in English from Louisiana State University (LSU), a master's in English from the University of Texas-Austin, a masters in library science from LSU, and a Ph.D. from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Alise, headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is the intellectual home of university faculty in graduate programs in library and information science in North America. Its mission is to promote excellence in research, teaching, and service and to provide an understanding of the values and ethos of library and information science. The Association supports the professional and intellectual growth of its members and advances research that contributes to and enlarges the knowledge base of the field. Alise also provides mechanisms for exchanging and disseminating information about issues and trends in the field as these influence and inform library and information science and strengthen the Association's leadership role in library and information science education.

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