Two NCSU librarians have been selected from a competitive pool of applicants for the Emerging Leaders 2008 program sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA).

Mary Chimato, Head of Access and Delivery Services, and Jacquie Samples, Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian, were accepted for the program, which enables 120 young librarians nationwide to get on the fast track to ALA and professional leadership.

Participants are expected to put their leadership skills to use by accepting a term of service on a committee of the ALA or one of its divisions, such as the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

Emerging Leaders 2008 will kick off with a day-long training session during the 2008 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, followed by six months of online work. The program will culminate at the June 2008 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California.

Chimato (left), who joined the NCSU Libraries in January 2007, manages a department that encompasses several key public services areas: circulation, reserves, current periodicals, media/microforms, interlibrary loan and document delivery, and stack services. She holds the MS in Library and Information Science and the MS in Information Systems from Drexel University.

Samples (right), who has been at NC State since April 2003, negotiates the Libraries' numerous licenses for serials and digital resources, oversees their processing and description, and also manages the monographs unit in the Acquisitions Department. She manages the SFX KnowledgeBase and is co-leading the implementation of the E-Matrix, an innovative management system for print and electronic journals, serials, databases, and aggregated resources. She holds the MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Iowa.