Candidate Speech Delivered at SLA 2007 |
Lynn Berard is Principal Librarian at the Engineering & Science Library at Carnegie Mellon University, where she managed the science libraries for over 20 years. She holds a B.S. degree from Eastern Michigan University and an A.M.L.S. degree from the University of Michigan. In addition to her expertise as an engineering information professional, Lynn teaches graduate library science courses for Clarion University of Pennsylvania and serves as Editor of FOCUS, the Carnegie Mellon faculty newspaper.
Lynn has served on the Board of Directors in the posts of Chapter Cabinet Chair and Director and chaired the Executive Director Search Committee (2002-2003) that led to the appointment of Janice Lachance. She has planned and presented workshops for the Leadership Development Institute and worked with the Conference Planning Committee for the 1999 Annual conference. Lynn has also served at both the division and chapter level as chair and president, and in many positions between those two. In 1999 she was presented with the SLA Rose L. Vormelker Award for her mentoring of students and practicing professionals in the field of library science and in June 2003 was named a Fellow of the Association.
Lynn has been a speaker at conferences of the ASEE, SLA, CEESE, ONLINE, and ACRL. She is the author of the Engineering and Technology Section of the reference work Magazines for Libraries now in its 15th edition. She enjoys traveling and consulting work; notably for the National Technical University of Athens in Athens, Greece. On the Carnegie Mellon campus Lynn has served on two Presidential Search Committees and as Treasurer of the Faculty Senate.
Outside of work, Lynn loves to canoe, garden, play golf and spend time with her husband Alan, three grown sons and two dogs, Katie and CoCo. Her latest urge is to transform her home into a bed 'n breakfast - an idea everyone is trying to talk her out of.
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