Art A. Lichtenstein, director of the Torreyson Library, was recently elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of Amigos Library Services. Amigos Library Services is a not-for-profit, membership-based organization dedicated to serving libraries. Amigos is governed by a 12-member Board of Directors elected by representatives of member institutions at the annual Amigos Member Meeting. The board, which meets quarterly, consists of nine librarians and three non-librarian Directors, each of whom is elected to three-year terms and can serve a maximum of two consecutive terms. The Amigos membership consists of over 750 libraries and cultural-heritage institutions, located primarily in the southwestern United States, who utilize Amigos’ comprehensive line of services, including cataloging, reference, resource sharing, preservation, digital imaging, consulting, and training. The mission of Amigos Library Services is to: provide innovative services to libraries; promote library cooperation and resource sharing; strengthen libraries as leaders of their community; and support libraries as education and information providers. Amigos Library Services is one of the largest U.S. library networks and is similar in scope to other library-oriented consortia such as Bibliographical Center for Research, OhioLINK, and LYRASIS.
Kelly Hunt Lyon, director of the Center for Community and Economic Development, was nominated and sponsored by Entergy to attend The National Women’s Leadership Summit. The summit is an opportunity to convene women leaders at the local, state and federal level in the public, private and academic sectors to bring a different perspective to issues such as energy, the environment, immigration, health care, or the economy. The National Women’s Leadership Summit, housed at Nicholls State University, is modeled after the Oxford Summit and the 2006 Louisiana Women’s Leadership Conference. 2010 summit locations were Anchorage, Alaska in June and upcoming in Little Rock, Arkansas, Sept. 9-11.
Charlotte Strickland, education seminar coordinator, and Wendy Holbrook, associate dean of students, have provided diversity training seminars for the more than 300 employees at Tokusen Incorporated. Tokusen manufactures wire and wire related products. Its home headquarters is Ono City, Japan. The Conway plant is one of two in the United States.
Charlotte Strickland, education seminar coordinator, has been hired as a part-time speaker/consultant by Strategic Health Solutions, based in Fayetteville. She provides Customer Service training for hospitals and medical clinics in the states of Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Missouri.