ARL Appoints Lisa Carter as Visiting Program Officer

From a recent press release from ARL: ARL has appointed Lisa Carter as a Visiting Program Officer (VPO) to work with the ARL Special Collections Working Group, effective in January 2009. Lisa’s VPO assignment supports an ARL objective to promote collaborative integration and enduring access to comprehensive research collections and resources in all formats that could be used to advance research, teaching, and learning. Lisa’s primary responsibility is to collaborate with working group Chair Alice Prochaska, University Librarian, Yale University, to develop agendas, to facilitate the sharing of ideas that will advance the ARL objective, and to assist with planning and preparation for a conference in late 2009.