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Loriene's Primary Platform Issues:

"I am particularly interested in focusing our combined efforts on supporting LIS education through practice; including eveyone into the circle of knowledge through literacy; spotlighting workplace wellness; and encouraging more ALA members to participate in the association to enjoy its benefits and strengthen our combined voice."

As President of ALA, I will stand with you to support:

  • free access to libraries for all library patrons;
  • free expression of thought and protection of privacy;
  • equitable salaries and benefits for library workers;
  • recruitment and retention of new talent into schools of library and information science;
  • promotion of library work and workers to the citizenry at large;
  • training and retooling of library workers to meet changing patron needs;
  • including all peoples into the circle of knowledge through literacy.

 

Loriene has contributed to the Library Profession as:

  • Public Librarian
  • Educator
  • Advocate
  • Author
  • Researcher
  • Editor
  • Speaker
  • Consultant
  • Teamworker
  • Grantwriter
  • Leader

Experience Through Commitment:

  • Professor, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Affiliated Professor, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Founder, “If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything,” a national reading club for Native children
  • Principal Investigator, “Honoring Generations,” a scholarship to develop the next generation ofNative librarians, funded through the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • Research Associate, Four Directions Technology Challenge Grant, Pueblo of Laguna (NM) Department of Education
  • Research Associate, Library Research Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Oral History Coordinator
  • Reference Librarian, Yuma (AZ) City-County Library
  • PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • MLS, University of Arizona
  • AS/BT, Oregon Institute of Technology

Experience-- Through Service in ALA:

  • Membership for over two decades
  • Councilor-at-Large
  • Committee on Education Chair and Member
  • ALA Presidential Advisory Committees
  • Committee on Committees
  • Education Assembly Chair
  • Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship
  • Nominating Committee
  • Spectrum Steering Committee, Leadership Institute Committee, Jury
  • ALSC Division Committees
  • PLA Division Committees
  • RUSA Division Committees
  • Former President of the American Indian Library Association
  • Texas Library Association ALA Chapter Committees

Recognition for Contributions:

  • 2005 Mover & Shaker, Library Journal
  • Two Texas Exes Excellence in Teaching Awards
  • Two Texas Exes Awards for Student Advising
  • Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Volunteer Service, Fulmore Middle School (TX)
  • 2002 Outstanding Alumna, School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona
  • Certificate of Appreciation for Making a Significant Contribution to Advancing the Awareness of Women’s History, Austin (TX) Public Library
  • Joe and Bettie Branson Ward Excellence Award for Research, Teaching or Demonstration Activities that Contribute to Changes of Positive Value to Society
  • Certificate of Appreciation, Austin (TX) Music Industry Council
  • Phi Kappa Phi Certificate for Dedicated Service in the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education

Loriene energizes change through successful teambuilding:

  1. She mentors LIS students, new professionals, and LIS faculty, contributing to formal and informal mentoring programs connecting LIS faculty with junior faculty, experienced ALA Councilors with new Councilors, and LIS students with faculty of color around the country.
  2. She incorporates a service-learning, practical approach to LIS education, bringing LIS students and library workers together to develop or enhance services for library patrons.
  3. She forges connections among people of diverse backgrounds through contributing to efforts such as the Spectrum Scholarship Program, the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, the Sequoyah Research Center, and el día de los niños/el día de los libros.
  4. She creates opportunities for people who are often underserved by libraries through “If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything,” a national reading club for Native children, and consulting with tribal community/public and tribal libraries.
  5. She finds grounded solutions that benefit practitioners through actively participating in projects including WebJunction.org, the International Children’s Digital Library, and the TexShare database program.
  6. She successfully shares her strategic vision of inclusion through over 100 publications and over 250 presentations.
  7. She stands strong as an indigenous person, incorporating her cultural grounding as an Anishinabe woman, enrolled on the White Earth Reservation, a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.
  8. She advocates for cultural expression in the workplace through such activities such as membership in Te Ropu Whakahau/Maori in Libraries and Information Management in national REFORMA, and in the Corazon de Tejas chapter of REFORMA, and in membership and leadership in the American Indian Library Association.

Follow Loriene’s campaign on her blog (www.lorieneroy.blogspot.com), “Pin-ding-u-daud-ewin: To Enter Into One Another’s Lodges.”

Loriene's School of Information Faculty Website: www.ischool.utexas.edu/~loriene

Loriene's complete Curriculum Vitae (452 KB pdf)

Email her at loriene@ischool.utexas.edu

To offer support, contact Gustavo Soto, Treasurer, Loriene Roy’s Campaign, P. O. Box 7391, Austin, Texas 78713-7391

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