David A. Tyckoson, head of public services for the Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno, has been elected to become president of the American Library Association’s Reference and User Services Association for 2007-08.

He will serve as president-elect beginning in July and ascend to the presidency a year later.

Tyckoson was awarded bachelor’s and master’s degrees in library science by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before arriving at Fresno State in 1997, he was the head of reference at the State University of New York — Albany, reference librarian at Iowa State University and science librarian at Miami University in Ohio,

He has been active in the Reference and User Services Association, chairing the Reference Services Section and serving as a director-at-large. He taught the organization’s first online continuing education course. Tyckoson has written extensively on library public services and in 2005 won the Isadore Gilbert Mudge — R.R. Bowker for contributions to reference librarianship.

At the Madden Library, Tyckoson has extended services available to the public. Earlier this year, he brought his love of railroading into play helping shepherd into the Madden Library an extensive collection of regional, state and Western U.S. and Canada rail history books and artifacts from the estate of J.L. “Jack” Krieger, a Fresno State alumnus.

“I am delighted that my friend and colleague Dave Tyckoson has been elected,” said Dean Michael Gorman of the Madden Library, who also is president of the American Library Association. “His election is a well-deserved tribute to his standing as one of the most important thinkers and practitioners in the field of library public services. This is an election that reflects honor on Dave, on the Henry Madden Library and on the university.”

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