Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has appointed Jolie Ogg Graybill a Visiting Program Officer (VPO), assisting with ARL Diversity Programs and Leadership Initiatives effective September 2011. Graybill currently serves as Image & Multimedia Collections Coordinator and Assistant Professor
 at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) Libraries.

In her role as VPO, Graybill will enhance ARL’s diversity recruitment efforts by assisting with the ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW). She will further develop ARL’s career placement services and the mentor component of the IRDW. She will also contribute to marketing and communications for ARL Diversity and Leadership programs. Additionally, Graybill will provide guidance in curriculum development and programming for the annual ARL Leadership Symposium and other events in support of student recruitment and development. Her contributions will allow ARL to more fully develop services and strategies that will serve as a model for recruitment and development of new research library professionals.

Throughout her career in academic libraries, Graybill has gained significant experience with diversity programs and has developed her strengths in leadership and communications. She first served at UNL Libraries in 2005 as a Multicultural Services Librarian, where she supported faculty and students in ethnic and multicultural studies. From 2006 to 2008, she worked with Northern Arizona University’s Cline Library as Academic Programs Librarian/Social and Behavioral Sciences Team Leader. Graybill rejoined the UNL Libraries in 2008. In her current position at UNL, she promotes, supports, and coordinates the Image & Multimedia Collections, provides general reference services, and acts as the liaison for communication studies.

Graybill earned her MLIS from the University of Arizona and was a participant in ARL's Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce scholarship program and the University of Arizona's Knowledge River Program. She holds a master’s in education in youth development leadership from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s of science in journalism from the University of Kansas. She is currently working on her PhD through Simmons College in managerial leadership in the information professions.

Graybill can be contacted at UNL Libraries at jgraybill3@unl.edu .

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/ .

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