Brent Mai
Concordia University
Portland, Oregon, USA
Brent has been honored to serve the members of his profession through SLA in a variety of capacities. Most recently he served as the co-chair of the 2007 (Denver) Annual Conference Committee. As a member of the SLA Board of Directors from 2003-2006 and Division Cabinet Chair, he also served on the Annual Conference Committees for the 2005 (Toronto) and 2006 (Baltimore) Annual Conferences. Brent was a member of the Association's Finance Committee from 1999-2003.
From 1997-2002, Brent was a member of the Executive Board of the Business & Finance Division serving as Division Chair and Treasurer. For the B&F Division, he has also served as chair of the Membership Committee, the Nominations Committee, the Awards Committee, CUBL Roundtable Coordinator, and as liaison to ALA's BRASS. He has also been honored to serve for four years on the Division's Centers of Excellence Awards Committee. Also at the Division level, Brent served on the Strategic Planning Committee for the Food, Agriculture, and Nutrition Division and as the Publications Committee Chair for the Engineering Division. Currently, Brent serves on the editorial review board of the Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the SLA Academic Division.
At the Chapter level, Brent served for 4 years as the treasurer of the Indiana Chapter and was a member of the Local Planning Group for the 1998 (Indianapolis) Annual Conference.
Brent has been a continuing education instructor at a number of SLA Annual Conferences and authored numerous articles on knowledge management, serials management, collection development, and user instruction. He currently serves on the advisory board for Sage Reference Online and has previously served on Standard & Poor's Customer Advisory Council, the Business School's Advisory Committee for Lexis-Nexis Academic & Library Solutions, and the Dun & Bradstreet Business Database Advisory Group.
Forever a knowledge-seeking student, Brent is completing a doctorate in education at the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. He holds an MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in international finance and economics from George Washington University, and a BA in economics and French from Bethany College (Kansas). He has also completed coursework at the University of Kansas, Middlebury College, and Gustavus Adolphus College.
Brent currently serves as University Librarian and Director of the Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. Before leading the library team at Concordia, he was Director of the Walker Management Library of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and the instruction librarian of the Krannert Management Library at Purdue University. As a corporate information specialist, he worked for Brown & Root (now KBR) in Houston and Bell Northern Research (now NorTel) in Dallas.
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