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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.