Jim Rettig--Keynote Speaker
Wednesday, 30 April at 9 AM
Jim Rettig serves as university librarian at the University of Richmond in Virginia. He has written extensively on reference service and reference sources. From 1981 through 1995 he wrote the Wilson Library Bulletin’s “Current Reference Books” column. It continued online as “Rettig on Reference,” first on the H.W. Wilson’s Web site and later on Gale’s through 1999. He has received RASD’s (now RUSA) Mudge Citation for “distinguished contributions to reference librarianship;” RASD’s Louis Shores-Oryx Press Award for “significant achievement in the field of reviewing materials for libraries;” and ALA’s G.K. Hall Award for Distinguished Classics of Reference Publishing (1992) as ““an outstanding contribution to library literature.” The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies named him its 2006 Distinguished Alumnus. He has served on various ACRL and ALA committees, the ALA Council, and the ALA Executive Board. He currently serves as ALA’s president-elect. He will always be a reference librarian at heart. Jim's website can be found at http://jimrettig.org/.