Congratulations

The board of ACE NET would like to congratulate Marianne Gaunt on her recent promotion to the position of Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian. We believe that this recognition of her leadership is well deserved. Gaunt has spent nearly thirty years at Rutgers, working her way up from the circulation desk at Alexander Library to head of the University library system, comprised of twenty-six integrated libraries, centers, and reading rooms located in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick/Piscataway. She has spearheaded statewide information initiatives such as the New Jersey Digital Highway database and VALE, the Virtual Library Environment of New Jersey. In the Mid-Atlantic Region, Gaunt has served on the boards of president of PALCI, the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc., and PALINET, the membership organization of libraries, information centers, museums, archives, and other organizations throughout Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. In April 200, Gaunt received the Distinguished Service Award from the College and University Library section of the New Jersey Library Association, and currently she is president of the national Association of Research Libraries. Gaunt has served all these communities with distinction, imagination, and commitment, while facing enormous changes in the culture and technology of scholarly communication.

As a very small part of her commitment to Rutgers, ACE NET would like to thank Gaunt for her staunch support of our mission to mentor women administrators in higher education. As a role model alone she is an inspiration, and she has lent practical support as well, generously giving her time to address the group, attending programs, and encouraging her staff to participate in the organization.

As President McCormick said in his announcement, Marianne Gaunt is central to the mission and goals of the University. She has our best wishes in her new role.

Signed, for ACE-NET, Susan English, Mary Ann Cancio, Sandra Troy, Marilyn Campbell, Colleen Georges, Michele Hujber, Terre Martin, Isabel O’Donovan-Keeley, and Tina Sohn

Awards

On April 20, 2007 at Brookdale Community College the Rutgers ACE-NET Chapter was selected to receive the first NJ ACE-NET IDEALS Award for Sustained Excellence.

Our Chapter’s 30 year history, demonstrated a commitment to and successful embodiment of the goals, principles and practices of the national and state chapters.