Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to congratulate John Teskey, of the University of New Brunswick, on his election as vice-president/president elect of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, or CARL.
Mr. Teskey has been director of libraries at UNB since 1991. He is widely admired in the profession as an innovator in providing electronic information to the teaching and research community that UNB serves.
CARL is the leadership organization of Canadian research librarianship; it is the treasure chest of Canada's intellectual holdings in all disciplines. Its members are the 27 major academic research libraries across Canada, the Library and Archives of Canada, and the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information.
I ask all members to join me in congratulating John Teskey for the considerable honour of his election as president of CARL.