{"id":1232,"date":"2025-06-23T16:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:13:34","slug":"ifla-academic-and-research-libraries-standing-committee-election-results-are-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/2025\/06\/23\/ifla-academic-and-research-libraries-standing-committee-election-results-are-final\/","title":{"rendered":"IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Standing Committee Election Results are Final!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This post is by Mimi Calter, Vice Provost &amp; University Librarian, Washington University in St Louis, and IFLA\/ARL Committee Chairperson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">IFLA\u2019s 2025 election season is now completed, and I am pleased to announce the full roster of members for the IFLA Academic &amp; Research Libraries standing committee for 2025-27.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The committee has seven continuing members with two years remaining on their four-year terms. These members have been actively involved in the committee\u2019s programming, and we will rely on them to continue the committee\u2019s work in the future. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miriam Linda Akeriwe<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mimi Calter<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adefunke Ebijuwa<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adriana Cybele Ferrari<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joanna Hare<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sarah Kaddu<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bianca Amaro de Melo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, we have four members returning for a second four-year committee term. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antonio Cobos Flores<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Karen Downing<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lily Ko<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tuelo Ntlotlang<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, ten new members will officially join the committee in August at the WLIC. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ejla \u0106urovac<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joseph Frank Rogani<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nicky Agate<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randa Al Chidiac<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Siviwe Feketshane<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soledad Lago<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">H\u00e9lo\u00efse Etienvre<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kerstin Schoof<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liudmyla Trotsenko<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mari Hopland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our committee has representation from 19 countries, and we look forward to bringing that global perspective to our work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is by Mimi Calter, Vice Provost &amp; University Librarian, Washington University in St Louis, and IFLA\/ARL Committee Chairperson. IFLA\u2019s 2025 election season is now completed, and I am pleased to announce the full roster of members for the IFLA Academic &amp; Research Libraries standing committee for 2025-27. The committee has seven continuing members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/arl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}