Honors for Associate Deans Salem and Langley

Anne Langley, the Libraries’ associate dean for Research, Collections and Scholarly Communications, and Joe Salem, associate dean of Learning, Undergraduate Services and Commonwealth Campus Libraries, recently have been recognized with significant professional honors.

Langley has been has been named one of 34 Fellows of the 2017 Leading Change Institute, sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources and EDUCAUSE, and Salem has been named the 2017 Library and Information Science Alumnus of the Year by Kent State University’s School of Library and Information Science (iSchool).

Salem’s honor is given to an iSchool graduate who has made a significant contribution to the profession, and will be presented to him at a university ceremony April 25 in Kent, Ohio. Langley and her cohort of Fellows — a select group of librarians, information technologists and others in the information sector across the United States — will meet for a weeklong residential seminar experience to explore higher education challenges and solutions. The 2017 Institute will be held June 11-16 in Washington, D.C.

You can read more on Penn State News about Salem’s alumnus of the year award and Langley’s selection as an LCI Fellow — which, incidentally, Dean Barbara Dewey also participated in as a member of its inaugural class under its original name, the Frye Leadership Institute.