Meet our new Board members!

ASERL Board of Directors for 2023-2024
Headshot and group shot for ASERL

At ASERL’s most recent membership meeting in Atlanta, ASERL deans/directors elected a slate of candidates to serve on the association’s Board of Directors.  Our newest Board members are:

  • Jeff Steely, Dean of Libraries at Georgia State University, serving as President-Elect in 2023-2024, President in 2024-2025, and Past-President in 2025-2026
  • Irene Herold, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, serving as a Member At-Large for 2023-2025
  • Jason Battles, Dean of Libraries at University of Arkansas, serving as a Member At-Large for 2023-2025

 

Board members who are continuing in their roles with ASERL are:

  • Gale Etschmaier, Dean of Libraries at Florida State University, is serving as ASERL Board President for 2023-2024.  Dean Etschmaier will become Past-President in 2024-2025
  • Chris Cox, Dean of Libraries at Clemson University, is ASERL’s Past-President for 2023-2024
  • Doug Way, Dean of Libraries at University of Kentucky, is ASERL’s Secretary-Treasurer for 2023-2024
  • Leslie Sharp, Dean of Libraries at Georgia Tech, is another Board Member At-Large for 2023-2024

 

ASERL thanks the following people whose terms of Board service ended with this election cycle:

  • Tim Pyatt, Dean of ZSR Library at Wake Forest University, after many years of service to the ASERL community
  • Kasia Gonnerman, Dean of Libraries at the University of Alabama-Birmingham
  • John Unsworth, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Virginia