ACRL candidates for 2023: A look at who’s running

Abstract

Leo S. Lo is the Dean and Professor of the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico, a position he has held since September 2021. Prior to this, Lo served as Associate Dean, Learning, Undergraduate Services and Commonwealth Campus Libraries, Pennsylvania State University (2019–2021), Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning, Old Dominion University, (2016–2019) and Head of the McLure Education Library and Associate Professor at the University of Alabama (2014–2016). Elisandro (Alex) Cabada is an Assistant Professor, Emerging Technologies and Immersive Scholarship Librarian, and Director of the Grainger IDEA Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a position he has held in some capacity since 2016. Cabada has held several other positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including Medical and Bioengineering Librarian (2018–2022) and Interim Head, Mathematics Library (2020–2022). Prior to this, Cabada served as Engineering and Innovation Librarian at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2017–2018). Before 2017, Cabada was Library Support Staff (2007–2017) and a Library Student Assistant (2000–2005) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.