Open forums with candidates for university librarian are scheduled to continue June 1 and 3.

The recruitment advisory committee hosted its first forum on May 26, for Denise Stephens of the University of Kansas. And, as previously announced, the committee is hosting a June 1 forum for Steven Gass of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The committee had indicated that it might be interviewing one or two more candidates, and set aside forum dates without saying who the candidates might be. This week the committee announced that there will be one more forum, June 3, for the third and final candidate: John Leslie King of the University of Michigan.

The time and place is the same for all of the forums: 4:10 to 5:30 p.m. in the Shields Library courtyard.

The forums are open to all members of the campus community. Each forum comprises a brief presentation and a question-and-answer session, followed by a reception.

People wishing to submit confidential comments may do so in writing, by e-mail to Chancellor Linda Katehi, chancellor@ucdavis.edu, and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Enrique Lavernia, lavernia@ucdavis.edu. The deadline for comments is 5 p.m. June 7.

About the candidates:

• Steven Gass — Associate director for Public Services, MIT Libraries, since 2002. He has been with MIT Libraries altogether for more than 20 years and also worked in the Stanford library system. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from MIT in 1972, and Master of Library Science degree from the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 1978.

• John Leslie King — Vice provost for Academic Information, University of Michigan, since 2006. He has been a professor in Michigan’s School of Information since 2000 and served as dean from 2000 to 2006. He was interim university librarian at UC Irvine from October 1991 to July 1992. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from UC Irvine in 1972, and a master’s degree and doctorate in administration from UC Irvine’s Graduate School of Administration in 1974 and 1977, respectively.

• Denise Stephens — Vice provost for Information Services and chief information officer, University of Kansas, since 2005. Previously she worked in the Syracuse University Library as acting university librarian and associate university librarian for Public Services, as head of Anschutz Library at Kansas, and in the libraries at the universities of Virginia and Oklahoma. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Oklahoma in 1987 and a Master of Library and Information Science from Oklahoma in 1993.