Barbara Dewey, Dean of Libraries at the University of Tennessee, was recently invited to serve on the Tennessee Advisory Council on Libraries as a representative of academic libraries. She will serve a three-year term beginning October 1, 2005.

The Advisory Council counsels the State Library and Archives regarding their ongoing five-year plan and other long-range planning, policy matters, program evaluations, services and other activities. The council is comprised of public, school, academic, special, and regional libraries as well as the Tennessee Library Association and Tenn-Share, an organization that promotes statewide library resource sharing.

For more information about the Tennessee Advisory Council on Libraries, please visit their Web site at the Tennessee State Library and Archives.