Contact: Allison Matthews
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Mississippi State faculty member is among a team of professional librarians named recently to the 75th Anniversary Task Force for the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Greta Wood will be one of a dozen members of the major committee responsible for planning activities as the 12,000 ACRL members, in particular, and national higher education community, in general, prepare to recognize the organization's past achievements and future goals.
The ACRL is the largest division of the American Library Association. A professional association, it represents librarians and others working to enhance the academic missions of higher learning institutions, and to advance the overall improvement of learning, teaching and research.
Wood, who joined MSU Libraries in 2011, is an assistant professor/business reference librarian. She holds master's degrees from the universities of North Carolina at Greensboro and at Charlotte in library and information science and in English, respectively. She also is an English graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
For more about the ACRL, visit www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl. For information about the MSU Libraries, visit https://library.msstate.edu/.