Mary A. Guillory, one of XULA's librarians, was appointed to the editorial board of Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) for a two-year term. The refereed journal is currently published quarterly by Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures, a division of the American Library Association (ALA) and was established in 1968. Averaging a 27% acceptance rate over the past 6 years, ITAL publishes scholarly work focused on technology in academic, public, special, and school libraries from around the world.
Guillory’s appointment to the board will provide her with a global perspective of cutting-edge library technology and how it might be applied to improve information access for Xavier University of Louisiana's faculty and students. She will also have the opportunity to shape the publication and with it the profession as she recruits authors, participates in operational decision making, and continues to review for the journal in her specialty areas—computer and makerspace technology.
In addition, Guillory and fellow librarian Marlowe Bogino recently completed the 4-day Evidence Synthesis Institute funded by a 2020 Institute of Museum and Libraries (IMLS) grant awarded to the University of Minnesota, Cornell University, and Carnegie Mellon University in a collaborative effort to improve librarian research skills. Guillory and Bogino were two of only 50 participants to be accepted into the program's fourth cohort, which featured instructors from the United States, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda. The goal of the institute, funded as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, is to advance the assistance librarians are able to provide to researchers outside the health sciences in the completion of academic evidence synthesis for journal articles and organizational decision making.
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