Alumni Jacoby, Reynolds named ARL Leadership Fellows

GSLIS alumni JoAnn Jacoby (MS '97) and Leslie Reynolds (MS '95) have been selected to participate in the 2016-2017 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Leadership Fellows Program.

Jacoby, associate university librarian for user services and associate dean of libraries at Illinois, and Reynolds, senior associate dean of University Libraries at University of Colorado Boulder, will join twenty-six other professionals in the sixth offering of this executive leadership program, which begins in January 2016. The program “facilitates the development of future senior-level leaders in large research libraries and archives," according to an announcement from ARL. Participants will "build on self-assessment and reflection and...explore a personal/professional area of interest in the context of a group setting.”

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