Camila Alire

Camila Alire, President-Elect of the American Library Association for 2009-2010, currently serves as Professor of Practice (adjunct) for the Simmons College’s PhD program in library managerial leadership and professor (part-time) at San Jose State University LIS executive MLIS managerial leadership program. She is Dean Emerita at the University of New Mexico and Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. She has served as Dean/Director of Libraries at University of Colorado at Denver. Other previous library experience includes serving as a community college library director, head of a special library, school librarian (K-12), and assistant to the dean/instructor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and [Information Management.

Camila received her doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of Northern Colorado. She also holds a MLS from the University of Denver.

Camila maintains an outstanding record of service. She is an active and long-standing member/leader of several associations. She is active in the American Library Association and currently chairs the ALA Committee on Legislation and has chaired several ALA Committees (Nominating, Committee on Education, American Libraries Advisory Committee) and has sat on four ALA President’s Special Advisory Task Forces. She has served on ALA Council and on the ALA Executive Board. She is past-president of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and served as chair of the 2005 ACRL National Conference. She is a member of REFORMA (National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking), serving as national president and chair of several committees. Camila has served on the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board and on the Greater Western Library Alliance Board and was the conference co-chair for the GWLA National Diversity Conference.

She was also professionally active in New Mexico in the Association of Research Libraries of New Mexico and the New Mexico Consortium of Academic Libraries, NMLA; and in the Colorado ALA Chapter where she chaired the Colorado Library Association’s Legislative Committee, Education Committee, and Local Arrangements Committee. She has chaired the Colorado Council on Library Development’s Board (State Library Advisory Board) and its Committee on Library Services to Ethnic Populations. This committee established a scholarship for MLS students serving minority populations and a statewide mentoring program. She has also chaired two State Library Regional Library Systems (multi-type) governing boards.Camila’s writing focuses on library marketing and advocacy, library services for Latinos and other minorities, library disaster recovery, leadership development, and recruitment/retention of minorities in the library profession and in higher education.

She recently co-authored Serving Latino Communities [http://www.neal-schuman.com/db/1/601.html] (2007), Academic Librarians as Emotionally Intelligent Leaders [http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/LU5139.aspx] (2007), and edited Library Disaster Planning and Recovery Handbook (2000). She has also published in various library journals mostly in the areas of library marketing and advocacy, leadership, diversity, and recruitment/retention. She has presented library advocacy, marketing, and serving Latino community workshops all over the United States as well as on the other topics.

Camila’s contributions to library services have not gone unnoticed. She was named to the ALA/ALTA National Advocacy Honor Roll for her library advocacy work and named Scholar-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Library System. Camila was awarded the first ALA Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award and National REFORMA’s Librarian of the Year. Two times she was selected by the Colorado Library Association (CLA) to receive the CLA Exemplary Library Services to Ethnic Populations Award. She also received the Mountain Plains Library Association’s Legislative Leadership Award. She was named by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the country.

Bibliography

*"Serving Latino Communities"(Rev. ed.). Monograph co-authored with Jacqueline Ayala. Neal-Schumann Publishing Co., (2007).
*"Academic Librarians as Emotional Intelligence Leaders". Monograph co-authored with Peter Hernon and Joan Giesecke. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited), (2007)."Charting our Future: Advocating to Advance Academic Libraries" in College and Research Libraries News. Vol. 55, No. 8, September 2005.
*"Ask Camila [Alire] : It Can Be Done!" Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Maganize, November 7, 2005, p. 11. http://www.hispanicoutlook.com
*“The Library Professional” in Perspectives, Insights & Priorities: 17 Leaders Speak Freely of Librarianship.(Norman Horrocks, ed.) (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, Inc.), 2005.
*“Two Intriguing Practices to Library Management Theory: Common Sense and HumanisticApplications,” Library Administration and Management, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2004.
*“The Silver Lining: Recovering from the Shambles of a Disaster,” Journal of Library Administration,Vol. 38, No. 1 and 2, 2003.
*“The New Beginnings Program: A Retention Program for Junior Faculty of Color,” Journal of LibraryAdministration, Vol.33, No. 1 and 2, 2001.
*“Diversity and Leadership: The Color of Leadership,” Journal of Library Administration, Vol.32,Nos.3/4, 2001.
*"Research Libraries in Colorado “Create Change." In ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research LibraryIssues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, August, 2000. Co-authored with Jim Williams.
*"Library Disaster Planning and Recovery Handbook", Neal-Schuman Publishing Company, New York,(Editor) 2000. Wrote four chapters.
*"Serving Latino Communities". Monograph co-authored with Orlando Archibeque. Neal-Schumann Publishing Co., 1998.
*"Ethnic Populations: A Model for Statewide Services," (28) American Libraries, November 1997: 38-40.
*"Mentoring On My Mind: It Takes a Family to Graduate a Minority Library Professional," (28)American Libraries, November 1997: 41.Hispanic Business Magazine, October 1997
*"Recruitment and Retention of Librarians of Color: The Future.” In Creating Our Future: Essays on Librarianship. (Sally Reed, ed.) (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co.), 1996.
*"Equal Access for All: A Reaction to ‘A Nation Connected," In Envisioning a Nation Connected. (Betty Turock, ed.) (Chicago: ALA), 1996.
*"Changing a Library Services Faculty Model: The Major & Minor (M & M) Approach," In ACRLNational Conference Proceedings, 1995. Co-authored.
*"Recruitment of Minority Personnel in Libraries." In Culture Keepers II. Unity Through Diversity, Presentation, Conference Proceedings of the Second National Conference of African American Librarians. (Westwood, MA: Faxon), September 1995.
* "Minorities and the Symbolic Potential of the Academic Library: Stewardship and Management Beyond Paternalism," College and Research Libraries, (56) November 1995: 509-517. Co-authored.
* "Library Services to Ethnic Minority Populations - Long Range Plan," ERIC ED366 338. (Editor), August 1993.
*"Futures: The Continued Search for Excellence," In Community College Libraries: A Pattern Of Excellence, (Roseanne Kalich, ed.). (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press), 1992.
* "Collection Evaluation: ‘Where’s the Beef' in Community College Library Collections?" In Community College Reference Services, (William Katz, ed.). (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press), 1992.
* "Libraries, Lobbying, and Legislative Issues," Colorado Libraries (18/4), December 1992: 4-5. (Guest Editor).
* "The Community College Library’s Role in the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Students," Colorado Libraries, (17/3) September 1991: 5-8.
* "If You Don’t Know Which Road to Take, Any Road Will Get You There," Colorado Libraries, (17/3) September 1991: 20-21.
*"Education of Library Personnel," Colorado Libraries, September 1988. (Guest Editor).
* "CLA Human Resources Directory", Colorado Library Association, 1987. (Editor).
* “Information and Library Technician Curriculum for Paraprofessionals,” Colorado Libraries, June 1987.
*"Needs Analysis for Designing an Information/Library Technician Curriculum for Pikes Peak Community College," Community and Junior College Libraries, Summer 1986.

References

“CAMILA ALIRE NAMED UNM DEAN OF LIBRARY SERVICES. University of New Mexico” at www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May28alire.htm