Biographical Sketch of Beverly Gass, NCLA Leadership Institute Mentor

Beverley Gass is the Dean of Learning Resources at Guilford Technical Community College (GTCC) in Jamestown, North Carolina. She was the Public Services Librarian, the Coordinator of Library Services and the Director of Learning Resources at the college. She was an elementary school librarian and an English instructor in the Chattanooga Public Schools and a children's librarian at the Poplar-White Station Branch of the Memphis Public Library and Information Center before coming to North Carolina.

She has been a member of NCLA since 1973. She was NCLA President 1997-99 and before that Vice President/President-Elect, Finance Committee chairperson, Conference Committee Registration Chairperson, Library Administration and Management Section, Director, Community and Junior College Library Section, Director and served on NC Libraries, Editorial Board.

Beverley is a member of the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries. She has been a member of ACRL's Publications Committee, New Publications Advisory Board, Colleagues Committee, Chair, Committee to Select Editor for Publications in Librarianship, and Chairperson of the Research and Publications Committee of the Community and Junior College Libraries Section of ACRL.

She is the North Carolina Community College representative to the NC LIVE Librarians Council and current chair. She has been a member of the LSTA Advisory Committee and the State Library Commission. She was president twice of the North Carolina Community College Learning Resources Association, President and founding member of the Council on Community College Library Administrators, and founding member of the North Carolina Community College Association of Distance Learning. She has served on a number of college and NCCCS committees and task forces.

Beverley holds a Doctor of Library Science from Columbia University where she also received the George Virgil Fuller Award for her dissertation. She holds a Certificate in Advanced Librarianship from Columbia University, a Master of Librarianship from Emory University and a Bachelor of Science, University of Tennessee.