Faculty, staff, students, and alumni of The School of Information Resources & Library Science at the University of Arizona congratulate Professor of Practice Thomas L. Wilding, who assumed the role of President of the Arizona Library Association on November 10.  

Tom has been involved in libraries for over a half century working at the District of Columbia Public Libraries, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the Libraries of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and serving as Director of Libraries at the University of Texas at Arlington.  He currently serves on the Council of the American Library Association and is a past-president of what was then the Library Administration and Management Association.