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Staff in the Social Sciences Division are involved in a number of organizations within the library, on campus and within the profession at large. Here is a round-up of some of these appointments (beyond the library) to which our colleagues have recently been appointed or elected.

• Adam Clemons (Librarian for African and African American Studies), was elected to a member-at-large seat on the Africana Librarians Council (ALC) Executive Board. Part of the African Studies Association, the ALC is an organization of “librarians, archivists and documentalists working with materials from and about Africa.”
• David Eifler (Environmental Design Librarian) was elected co-chair of the University-Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT), Local 1474, the union representing librarians and lecturers at the University of California.
• Celia Emmelhainz (Anthropology Librarian) has been appointed to serve as the ACRL/ANSS Liaison to the American Anthropological Association. The Anthropology and Sociology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries is the professional association for librarians who serve anthropology and sociology departments. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is one of the largest anthropological associations in the world.
• Brian Light (Chief Operations Manager) was elected to the Governing Council of the Berkeley Staff Assembly. (Read more in a recent blog post.)
• Liladhar Pendse (Librarian for East European and Latin American Studies) was elected as a member-at-large for the Committee on Libraries and Information Resource (CLIR)-Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies, an organization consisting of scholars and librarians in the fields of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
• Margaret Phillips (Librarian for Education, Gender & Women’s Studies, and Psychology) was elected to the Executive Board of the University-Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT), Local 1474.
• Jesse Silva (Librarian for Federal and State Government Information, Political Science, Public Policy and Legal Studies) has been appointed liaison to the Freedom to Read Foundation by the American Library Association (ALA)-Government Documents Round Table (GODORT). GODORT is the main professional organizations for librarians working with government documents. The Freedom to Read Foundation deals with “a wide range of issues affecting our access to freedom of speech and our right to access information.”