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To join IRIG, select the Image Resources Interest Group in your ALA/ACRL membership record. There is no charge for Interest Group membership for ACRL members.
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Current Officers
2020-2021
Convener: Maggie Murphy
Incoming Convener: Jackie Fleming
Past Convener: Jane Darcovich
Past Officers
2019-2020
Convener: Jane Darcovich
Incoming Convener: Maggie Murphy
Past Convener: Tiffany Saulter
2018-2019
Convener: Tiffany Saulter
Incoming Convener: Jane Darcovich
2017-2018
Convener: Tiffany Saulter
2016-2017
Convener: Jasmine Burns
Past Convener: Stephen Patton
2015-2016
Convener: Stephen Patton
Incoming Convener: Jasmine Burns
Past Convener: Kasia Leousis
2014-2015
Convener: Kasia Leousis
Incoming Convener: Stephen Patton
Past Convener: Kristina Keogh
2013-2014
Convener: Kristina Keogh
Incoming Convener: Kasia Leousis
Past Convener: Robin Leech
2012-2013
Convener: Robin Leech
Incoming Convener: Kristina Keogh
Past Convener: Shilpa Rele
Listserv/Website Administrator: Amanda Milbourn
2011-2012
Convener: Shilpa Rele
Incoming Convener: Robin Leech
Past Convener: Joanna Burgess
Listserv/Website Administrator: Alice Platt
2010-2011
Convener: Joanna Burgess
Incoming Convener: Shilpa Rele
Past Convener: Denise Hattwig
Listserv/Website Administrator: Denise Hattwig
2009-2010
Convener: Denise Hattwig
Incoming Convener: Joanna Burgess
History
In early 2009, in response to the growing involvement of libraries in acquiring, managing, delivering, and teaching with image resources, a group of ACRL members felt it was time to establish an Interest Group in ACRL for librarians and curators who work with image resources in academic and research libraries. The group’s purpose would be “To provide a forum for ongoing discussion of the unique issues presented by the development and support of interdisciplinary image resources in academic libraries.” Following ACRL procedures for establishing new Interest Groups, organizers wrote a petition to the ACRL Board of Directors, and gathered supporting signatures from ACRL members. An informal organizing meeting was held at ACRL 2009 in Seattle, where additional petition signatures were gathered, and attendees discussed possible directions and activities for the new Interest Group. The signed petition to establish the ACRL Image Resources Interest Group was submitted to the ACRL Board of Directors in May 2009, and was approved by the Board at ALA Annual in Chicago, July 11, 2009. Denise Hattwig and Joanna Burgess led organizing and petition efforts.