Jeff Bailey, head of public services for the Dean B. Ellis Library at Arkansas State University, was recently elected vice-president/president-elect of ARKLink, the Arkansas consortium of academic libraries.

He will serve as vice president of the consortium in 2006 and will serve as president for the 2007 calendar year.

A native of Dayton, Ohio, Bailey has been a member of the library faculty at the Dean B. Ellis Library since 1992.  He received a bachelor's in history and geography from Morehead State University and a master's degree in library science from Clarion University in Pennsylvania.

ARKLink is a nonprofit organization of 47 college and university libraries cooperating to deliver services and collections to researchers in Arkansas. 

The libraries' mission is to increase, enhance, and facilitate cooperation among libraries in the state of Arkansas through the consortium's purchasing of resources, expanding access to resources, and encouraging partnerships between and among libraries.