Bonnie Clemens Director of the Libraries at The Claremont Colleges   Bonnie Jackson Clemens has served as the Director of the Libraries at The Claremont Colleges since 1990. In this role she is responsible for staff leadership and overall management of fiscal resources directed toward meeting library related needs of the academic community. During her tenure, she has furthered the Libraries long-standing emphasis on applying new technologies and innovative strategies as complementary to traditional means of providing library collections along with information, research, and instructional services. She also represents the Libraries at campus, regional, and national meetings and the Consortium on campus-wide committees, including the Information Technology Committee which she is chairing during 2001/2002.   Dr. Clemens earned an undergraduate degree is in mathematics education (Louisiana Tech University, Phi Kappa Phi, 1968) and taught high school mathematics in Louisiana for a year before enrolling in graduate school. She began her professional library career as a reference librarian at Louisiana State University where she received her master’s degree in 1972 and was elected to the Beta Phi Mu Honor Society. In 1976, she received an HEA Title II-B Fellowship for advanced study in Library Science at The Florida State University where she earned her Ph.D (1983). In 1979, she accepted an appointment as personnel librarian at the University of Georgia Libraries. Over a period of eleven years at the University, she held a number of administrative positions, including a two-year appointment as Acting Director of Libraries.   Dr. Clemens was elected to a three year term as an OCLC Users Council Delegate, is on the steering committee of CalPALs (California Private Academic Libraries), and is Vice-Chair/Chair Elect of Southern California Electronic Library Consortium. Dr. Clemens has served as a member of a number of WASC visiting teams, and she is also active in committees of the Mt. Baldy United Way.