From: mgolrick@brdgprtpl.lib.ct.us (Michael Golrick) To: "CONNTECH" <conntech@csuweb.ctstateu.edu> Subject: [CONNTECH] FW: Hayden, Strauch seek 2003-2004 ALA presidency
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Subject: Hayden, Strauch seek 2003-2004 ALA presidency
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ALA News Release
For Immediate Release
October 12, 2001
Carla Hayden, executive director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in
Baltimore,
and Katina Strauch, head of collection development at the College of
Charleston Libraries, are candidates for the 2003-2004 presidency of the
American Library Association (ALA).
Hayden has served as chair of the ALA's Committee on Accreditation and the
ALA's Spectrum Initiative. She also is a member of the Black Caucus of ALA
(BCALA) and the Public Library Association (PLA) and the Association for
Library Service to Children (ALSC), divisions of ALA.
Prior to going to Baltimore in 1993, Hayden served as First Deputy
Commissioner and Chief Librarian of the Chicago Public Library and assistant
professor in the School of Library and Information Science of the University
of Pittsburgh. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at the College of
Library and Information Services, University of Maryland at College Park.
Hayden was named Librarian of the Year by Library Journal in 1995 and was
recognized as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women by Warfield's Business Record
in
1996. She also has received the Legacy of Literacy Award from the DuBois
Circle of Baltimore, the Andrew White Medal from Loyola College and the
President's Medal from John Hopkins University.
A graduate of Roosevelt University, Hayden earned her M.A. and Ph.D degrees
from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago.
Strauch has been active within the ALA and the Association for Library
Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the ALA. Most
recently
she co-chaired the ALCTS Acquisitions Librarians/Vendors of Library
Materials
Discussion Group. She also has served on other ALCTS committees and the
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
Acquisitions and Exchange Section.
Since 1979, Strauch has served in leadership positions at the College of
Charleston. She is the founder of the Charleston Conference and chairs the
board of The Charleston Report and The Charleston Advisor. In addition, she
is
the founder and editor of Against the Grain. Strauch also has worked at the
Medical University of South Carolina, Trident Technical College and Duke
University Medical Center Library.
She received the South Carolina Outstanding Librarian Award in 1996 and the
ALA ALCTS Acquisitions Section Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award in
1997. Strauch has published widely in library literature and has written
five
novels with her husband.
Strauch has her master's of library science from the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
ALA members current as of January 31 will vote on the spring ballot. The
candidate elected will serve as ALA vice president/president-elect for
2002-2003 and as president the following year.
Copyright © 2001, American Library Association.
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