Elizabeth Futas
Elizabeth Dorothy Futas was the head of the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Library and Information Science from 1986-1995. Earlier in her career, Dr. Futas worked as a cataloger for the Ford Foundation in New York and as a reference librarian at Queens College. She had also held faculty positions at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Emory University and the University of Washington in Seattle, among other institutions. Her text on Collection Development is widely regarded.