Library manager named national senior fellow

Gregg A. Silvis, library, is one of 15 in the nation selected to participate in the University of California, Los Angeles, 1999 Senior Fellows Program.

He and other top managers of academic research libraries were selected after a nationwide competition conducted by the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. The group will attend a three-week program on the UCLA campus in August.

The Senior Fellows Program was established in 1982 with the support of the Council on Library Resources, UCLA and the institutions represented by the participating fellows. More than 125 academic library leaders have participated in the program, and 29 current deans or directors of the 106 members of the Association of Research Libraries are senior fellows.

This is the 10th year the Senior Fellows Program, conducted in partnership with the Association of Research Libraries, has been held. The director is former senior fellow Beverly P. Lynch, UCLA, who served as past president of the American Library Association.

Silvas has served as assistant director for library computing systems at UD since 1994 with responsibilities for the provision and local management of, and enhancements to, numerous electronic resources as well as for the gateway access the library offers to thousands of Internet resources. He served previously as computer/services/systems librarian at the Law Library at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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