Beacher Wiggins has been with the Library of Congress since 1972 and in his present position as Director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access since 2004. He has been an active member of the American Library Association and the ALCTS Division of ALA for more than 30 years. He is the recipient of the ALCTS 50th Anniversary Presidential Citation for contributions to ALCTS and the library profession in 2007 and was the 1994 Alumnus of the year, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies.