Memo From Chancellor Yang

December 31, 1998

To the Campus Community:

Dear Colleagues:

We are extremely pleased with the appointment of Sarah M. Pritchard as our new University Librarian.  She brings to UCSB a wealth of broad-based experience in library administration, including her years at the Library of Congress, as Associate Executive Director at the Association of Research Libraries, and, since 1992, as the Director of Libraries at Smith College.

She received her B.A. in French, with high honors, from the University of Maryland, and two M.A. degrees; one in French Literature and another in Library Science, both at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  With her diverse background in French Literature and in Women's Studies, we look forward to her playing an active leadership role in the academic life of our campus.

We would like to thank the members of our Search Advisory Committee for the University Librarian for their dedicated and effective recruitment efforts. The membership of this committee, chaired by Professor Carol Lansing, is listed below.  We would also like to thank all of the librarians, staff, students, and faculty who provided input during the search process.

Sincerely yours,

Henry T. Yang
    Chancellor

Ilene H. Nagel
Executive Vice Chancellor

Search Advisory Committee for the University Librarian

Carol Lansing, Chair (Professor of History)
Robert Bason (Chair, Friends of the Library)
Scott Bell (Graduate Student, Geography)
Cynthia Brown (Professor, French & Italian)
Camille Capulong, (Associated Students)
Willis Copeland (Chair and Professor, Education)
Sherry DeDecker (Chair, Librarians' Association of the University of California, UCSB, and U.S. Documents Librarian, UCSB)
Lynette Korenic (Head, Art and Music Library)
David Marshall (Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts)
William Prizer (Professor and Chair, Music)
Chela Sandoval (Assistant Professor, Chicano Studies)
Christine Simms (Assistant to the Chair and MSO, Chemistry)
Terence Smith (Professor, Computer Science and Geography, and Director, Alexandria Project)
Bruce Tiffney (Professor, Geological Sciences, and Chair, Library Committee)
Richard Worth (Computer Resource Specialist, Library)
Anthony Zee (Professor, Physics)

Consultants to the Committee:

Raymond Huerta (Coordinator, Affirmative Action Program)
Ronald Tobin (Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Programs)