James E. Manasco

James E. Manasco has been a member of SLA since 1994, where he is a member of the Kentucky Chapter, the Canadian Chapter, the Science-Technology, the Leadership & Management, Academic, Information Technology, and Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics Divisions. He currently serves as President of the Kentucky Community and Convener/Chair of the Fellows of SLA. He was elected to the SLA Board of Directors and will serve as Director-at-Large for 2023-2025. Previously, he has served in a variety of leadership roles, including Chair of the Science-Technology and Information Technology Divisions, President of the Kentucky Chapter (thrice) and Chair of the 2010 Annual Conference Advisory Council. James is also the co-presenter, with Mary Frances Lembo, of the very popular Sci-Eng 101 series of programs that have been at SLA Annual each year since 2004. James was awarded the Kentucky Chapter’s Professional Award in 2004, its’ Outstanding Member Award in 2007, and its’ Larry Besant Professional Award in 2021. James was named a Fellow of SLA in 2010. James is currently disabled. He formerly served as School Librarian for Wayland Alexander Elementary from August 2015-May 2018. Prior to that, he served in a variety of positions at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky from July 2003-July 2015; Head of the Robert E. Shaver Library of Engineering at the University of Kentucky (1999-2003) and Natural Sciences Liaison Librarian at Colorado College’s Tutt Library in Colorado Springs, Colorado (1996-1999). James received his MSLS in 1996 and his BA in 1994, both from the University of Kentucky. James resides in Hartford, Kentucky at Manasco Acres with his wife Melanie and three children, Kayden, Jay and Tatum; one beagle, Peppermint.