Candidate for President Elect:Dr. Lucy Santos Green Candidate's Statement: As we face a global pandemic that sped up challenges LIS education was already navigating, we have simultaneously entered a period of professional and personal reckoning; one that has challenged us as a society and as a discipline, to exchange our flowery language, beautiful writings, and inspirational signature quotes for decisive action. In its 2021-2025 Strategic Plan, ALISE declared its vision (global leadership in education for information professionals), and its mission (promoting innovative, high-quality education at an international level). It aimed to achieve this vision and fulfill this mission by investing in four strategic directions, each direction crafted to be held accountable by objectives and strategies that reflected a more global, more inclusive, more supportive, and more action oriented ALISE. My vision for ALISE is one of fulfilled promise: to work with fellow members as we fulfill the Strategic Plan’s promise to translate its words into the actions described in the objectives and strategies. I bring to this vision an enthusiastic and tireless passion for the interwoven roles of research and pedagogy, a foundational belief in the crucial role global exchanges of practice bring to LIS, and my personal pledge to you, fellow ALISE member, that I will efficiently, expediently, and collaboratively push forward the work we have promised, as an organization, we will do. Biography: Dr. Lucy Santos Green is a Professor of Information Science at the University of South Carolina, and co-editor of School Libraries Worldwide, the flagship journal for the International Association of School Librarianship. Currently she is the primary investigator on two IMLS funded research projects: “Online Ready: Designing Culturally Competent and Impactful K-12 Online Learning” and
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