Leona Jacobs, systems librarian at the University of Lethbridge, is CAUT’s visiting scholar for 2006. While at CAUT, she will study research leave provisions for Canadian academic librarians. Her work will examine the availability of leave provisions and their patterns of use. Jacobs has been at Lethbridge since 1989. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Regina.