We are pleased to announce the ALSC slate for the 2008 ALA election:
Vice-President/President-Elect
Maralita (Micki) Freeny, Prince George’s Library System, Hyattsville, MD
Kate McClelland, Perrot Memorial Library, Old Greenwich, CT
Board of Directors
Marge Loch-Wouters, Menasha Public Library, Menasha, WI
Bernadette Nowakowski, Harold Washington Public Library, Chicago, IL
Leslie Molnar, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Parma, OH
Bruce Farrar, Harris County Public Library, Houston, TX
Patricia “Pabby” Arnold, East Baton Rouge Parish Library, Baton Rouge, LA
Georgene DeFilippo, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2010 (John) Newbery Medal Selection Committee Chair
Katie O’Dell, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
Junko Yokota, National-Louis University, Evanston, IL
2010 (Randolph) Caldecott Medal Selection Committee Chair
Rita Auerbach, New York, NY
Wendy Lukehart, District of Columbia Public Library, Washington, DC
2010 (Robert F.) Sibert Medal Selection Committee Chair
Susan Veltfort, King County Library System, Issaquah, WA
Vicky Smith, McArthur Public Library, Biddeford, ME
2011 (Laura Ingalls) Wilder Medal Selection Committee Chair
Megan Schliesman, Cooperative Children’s Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
William Teale, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL
2010 (John) Newbery Medal Selection Committee
Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA
Deborah Wright, Newport News Public Library System, Newport News, VA
Deborah Stevenson, Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Champaign, IL
Meaghan Battle, Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Steven Engelfried, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
Maria Mena, Leon County Public Library System, Tallahassee, FL
Linnea Hendrickson, Bandelier Elementary School, Albuquerque, NM
Maureen McCoy, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
Teresa Brantley, Salem Middle School, Apex, NC
Maria Salvadore, Washington, DC
Holly Jin, Skokie Public Library, Skokie, IL
Myra Katz, Prince George’s County Memorial Library System, Largo, MD
Wendy Woodfill, Hennepin County Library, Minnetonka, MN
Elva Garza, Austin Public Library, Austin, TX
2010 (Randolph) Caldecott Medal Selection Committee
Zahra Mirjehan Baird, Chappaqua Library, Chappaqua, NY
Susannah Richards, Eastern Connecticut State University, Storrs, CT
Joanna Ward, Temple City Library, Temple City, CA
Meagan Albright, Alvin Sherman Library, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Chris Caputo, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Becky A. White, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN
Henrietta Smith, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Jan Watkins, Skokie Public Library, Skokie, IL
Carole DeJardin, Appleton Public Library, Appleton, WI
Ann Crewdson, Issaquah Library, Issaquah, WA
Julie Roach, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA
Merri Lindgren, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Christy Estrovitz, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Anna Healy, Rochelle Lee Fund, Evanston, IL
2010 (Robert F.) Sibert Medal Selection Committee
Roxane Bartelt, Kenosha Public Library, Kenosha, WI
Anne Callaghan, Racine Public Library, Racine, WI
JoAnn Jonas, Chula Vista Public Library, Chula Vista, CA
Ed Sullivan, Hardin Valley Elementary School, Knoxville, TN
Becki Bishop, Campbell Court Elementary, Bassett, VA
David Mowery, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
Lisa Dennis, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Margaret Tassia, Lancaster, PA
2011 (Laura Ingalls) Wilder Medal Selection Committee
Anne Heidemann, Canton Public Library, Canton, MI
Andrew Medlar, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
Angela J. Reynolds, Annapolis Valley Regional Library, Bridgetown, NS CANADA
Carla Morris, Provo City Library, Provo, UT
We appreciate the excellent work done by the ALSC Nominating Committee to come up with this slate. The 2008 Election polls open March 17th. In order to be eligible to vote in the election, members must be in good standing (i.e. have their dues paid up) by January 31st, 2008. For more information on the ALA election, please visit the ALA Election web page.
–Diane Foote, ALSC Executive Director