Lutishoor Salisbury Named University Professor

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. —  The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees and President B. Alan Sugg approved the promotion of Lutishoor Salisbury, an Agriculture, Food & Life Sciences librarian at the University of Arkansas, to University Professor.

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biology from the University of Guyana in 1975, professor Salisbury worked as an administrative officer on the Caribbean Science and Technology Policy Studies Project in Guyana. She took a position as assistant librarian at the University of Guyana Library in 1977 and received her master’s in information science from Loughborough University of Technology in Leicestershire, England, in 1979. She worked as the science and technology librarian at the University of Guyana until 1982 when she took an appointment as the engineering and physical sciences librarian at the University of the West Indies Library in Trinidad and Tobago. In 1989, she was promoted to senior librarian/senior lecturer and head of science and technology at the University of the West Indies Library in Trinidad and Tobago. She came to the University of Arkansas Libraries in Fayetteville in 1992 and was promoted to the rank of professor in 1993. Her subject specialty fields are agriculture, biological sciences, food and life sciences, computer science, and mathematics.

Salisbury’s publications include 25 refereed and 17 non-refereed articles, 31 books/ monographs/ bibliographies, 22 conference presentations, four poster sessions, four book/web reviews and five reports in the field of science and technology information worldwide.

She has successfully served a three-year term as chair-elect, chair, and past-chair of the Agriculture, Food and Nutrition of the Special Libraries Association, with a membership of over 300. She was nationally elected and is currently serving a three-year term as president-elect, president, and then past-president of the United States Agricultural Information Network, which has a membership of about 250 members. She is also serving as the chair of the information network’s Awards Committee.

She is currently serving on the editorial boards of the two journals relating to agricultural information, the Journal of Agriculture and Food Information and the IAALD Bulletin. She also serves on the advisory boards for the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International and for the International Food Information Service.

Her promotion to university professor “recognizes the significant contributions she has made to the University of Arkansas in the areas of teaching, research, and public service,” said Chancellor John A. White in announcing her appointment.