E very year at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, a new administrative year begins, and the first official order of business is the introduction of new faces to the ASIS&T Board of Directors. In October in Columbus, the annual changing of the guard took place, and new officers and directors took their seats.
Each of the positions filled through recent balloting is for a three-year term. Those elected to the Board are Gary Marchionini, president-elect; and Debbie Barreau and Peter Morville, directors-atlarge. In addition, Amy Wallace joined the Board as Chapter Assembly Director as a result of balloting conducted among chapter representatives.
As the new members took their seats, Donald Case, elected last year as president-elect, assumed the presidency from Nancy Roderer, who remains on the Board as past president for one year.
Gary Marchionini, professor of information science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has served ASIS&T in numerous ways, including on the Board of Directors; on various standing and ad hoc committees; and on the editorial board of JASIST. In his position statement issued in the ballot materials, Marchionini focused on the importance of