Floyd C. Pentlin
Degrees and Certifications: Central Missouri State University, Ed. S.-Learning Resources, 1982; Central Missouri State University, Masters-History, 1974; Bethany College, B. A.-German, 1969.
Current Position: Library Media Specialist, ret.; Adjunct Prof., University of Central Missouri, 2005-Present.
Previous Positions: Library Media Specialist, Lee's Summit North High School, 1995-2005; Library Media Specialist, Lee's Summit High School, 1989-2005.
ALA Activities: AASL: Member-At-Large, Board of Directors, 2007-Present; AASL: Chair, Strategic Plan Review of Committees Task Force, 2006-07; AASL: Co-Chair, Annual Conference Committee, 2006-07; AASL: Member, Membership Committee Review Task Force, 2005-07; AASL: Region III Director, Board of Directors, 2005-07; AASL: Co-Chair Annual Conference Committee, 2006-06; AASL: Co-Chair, 11th National Conference (Kansas City), 2005-06; AASL: Elected member-at-large, Board of Directors, 2005-06; AASL: Region III Director-Elect, , 2003-05; AASL: Co-chair, Awards ABC-CLIO Subcommittee, 2001-02; AASL: Member, Officer Nominating Committee, 2001-02; AASL: Member, Program Committee 10th National Conf. (Birmingham), 1998-99; AASL: Chair, Affiliate Assembly, 1995-96; AASL: Coordinator, Region III, 1991-93.
Offices Held Outside of ALA: MASL: Board of Directors, 1998-2005; Missouri Association of School Librarians: Editor, "Connections: Newsletter of MASL", 1998-2005; MASL: Member, Mo. Task Force for the Implementation of the National Standards, 1998-2002; MASL: Chair, Annual Spring Conference, 1996-97; MASL: Board of Directors, 1982-97; MASL: Parliamentarian, Board of Directors, 1993-96; MASL: Missouri's delegate, AASL's Affiliate Assembly, 1990-96; KC ShareNet Telecommunications Blue Ribbon Library Committee: Chair, 1991-93; MASL: Co-editor, Journal: "Media Horizons: Journal of the MASL", 1986-93; MASL: President, 1989-90; MASL: President-Elect, 1988-89; Educational Media Services, Kansas City: Awards Chair, 1987-88; MASL: Member, Annual Spring Conference Committee, 1985-86; MASL: Editor, Journal: "Media Horizons: Journal of MASL", 1984-86; MASL: Chair, Annual Spring Conference, 1983-84; Educational Media Services, Kansas City: President, 1982-84; Educational Media Services, Kansas City: Reporter, 1980-82; Central Missouri Social Studies Association: Vice-President, 1977-78.
Publications: Editor, Connections (Missouri Association of School Librarians), 1998-2005; Author, "Telecommunications, Today, the District; Tomorrow, the World," Media Horizons (MASL), 1993; Author, "Pondering Information Skills in an Electronic Environment," Media Horizons (MASL), 1993; Author, "Tracing Expenditures: Taking Responsibility for the Media Program's Accountability," Media Horizons (MASL), 1992; Author, "Videodisc Primer," Media Horizons (MASL), 1991; Author, "Toward a Wonderful New Age," Media Horizons (MASL), 1989; Author, "The Special Library Media Specialist: Roles and Responsibilities," MASL Newsletter (MASL), 1988; Author, "Core Curriculum Key Skills, and the Library Media Specialists or Grumbling to our Trot to DESE's New Gavotte," Media Horizons (MASL), 1987; Author, "Reflections on the New Technology at ALA," Media Horizons (MASL), 1986; Author, "Indexing with a Database," Media Horizons (MASL).
Honors, Awards, Prizes, Medals, Citations: Outstanding Media Program Award, Lee's Summit North High School, 2005; Progressive School Library Award, Missouri Association of School Librarians, 2002; Special Service Award (MASL), 1994; Outstanding Media Program Award, Lee's Summit High School, 1991; Eli M. Oboler Award, ALA's Intellectual Freedom Roundtable, 1990.
Accomplishments: My major accomplishments include a twenty two-year commitment to school librarians in Missouri as an active participant on the Board of Directors of the Missouri Association of School Librarians. Besides demonstrating leadership in a variety of capacities, I began and edited both a professional journal and MASL’s newsletter. For six years, I was Missouri’s first elected delegate to AASL’s Affiliate Assembly and was elected chair of Affiliate Assembly. During my term as chair, the process began which reorganized the group to be more responsive to its members. Three times the school library media programs I was in charge of were rewarded with local and state recognition for excellence. I have received national recognition for my writing in the area of intellectual freedom as demonstrated by ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Roundtable’s Eli M. Oboler Award. I have consistently contributed to the profession through teaching and learning. I have presented workshops at five AASL conferences and at the North Central Association in Chicago and numerous workshops at the local and state level.
STATEMENT: Thomas Friedman in “The World is Flat” describes a world of collaborative information “irrespective of distance, geography, [and] time.” Google certainly has flattened information needs to some degree. Will it also flatten libraries? Of course, the profession has responded with a vigorous discussion of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0, which may “reconstruct the experience of using a library,” a need suggested in the 2005 OCLC report, “Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources.” As AASL treasurer, I would like to be part of the team that leads the discussion that will focus on the role of the school library in the educational and informational infosphere. We are at a critical juncture when library patrons trust search engines and library information equally and concepts such as “wikiality” and “truthiness” are standards for accuracy. AASL’s leaders must reinvigorate the library “brand” as a dynamic and central presence in the educational process.
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