Willis E. Bridegam

Willis E. Bridegam has been the Librarian of Amherst College and a member of the Five College Librarians Council since 1975. He served as the Chair of CLIR's College Committee from 1997-2000, and is currently a member of CLIR's Committee on Preservation. He was a member of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Outcomes Assessment Task Force and chaired the ACRL College Libraries Section Committee on Standards that developed and published new outcomes-based "Standards for
College Libraries" in 2000. A member of the Oberlin Group Founding Committee, he promoted the idea of sharing information and ideas among liberal arts college librarians. He helped to establish the ACRL Excellence in Library Awards program and served on its committee. Earlier, he served as a member of the Choice Editorial Board, the Editorial Board of College and Research Libraries, and the OCLC Association
of College and University Libraries (ACCUL) Advisory Board. ----from p. ii of A Collaborative Approach to Collection Storage.