submitted by Binh P. Le, Associate Librarian

Binh P. Le, Associate Librarian, presented a paper “Leadership Attainment by Asian Americans Academic Librarians: Challenges and Development” at the ACRL 2015 Conference. Portland, OR. March 25 – 29, 2015. The same paper “Leadership Attainment by Asian Americans Academic Librarians: Challenges and Development” has also been published in Dawn M. Meuller (ed.), Creating Sustainable Community: ACRL 2015 Conference Proceedings. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015, pp. 28-39.

Binh’s poster presentation proposal “Leadership Aspirations of Asian American Academic Librarians” has been accepted for presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Library Association. San Francisco, CA, June 26 -30, 2015.

Binh has been selected to serve as a co-mentor in the ALA International Mentoring Pilot, a joint IRC/ IRRT initiative. Binh’s mentee was a Fulbright scholar and Peace Corps volunteer, and currently is a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. Currently, Binh chairs the ALA International Relations Committee/East Asia and the Pacific Subcommittee.

Binh P. Le has been appointed as Chair of the Nominating Committee of the Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.