Tracie Hall Named New ALA Diversity Office Director

-- Library Journal, 01/29/2003

The American Library Association (ALA) has announced that Tracie Hall will leave her current position as community librarian at the Hartford PL, CT, to become the director of its Office for Diversity, beginning March 17. She succeeds Sandra Balderrama, who held the post from 1998 until last year. Hall was among the first class of the Spectrum Scholar program and is an active member of ALA's Black Caucus. She has received the 1996 ALA Excellence in Youth Services Award, the 21st Century Leadership Award from the University of Washington Library and Information Science School in 1999, and the 1996 Seattle Public Library Innovative Service Award. Hall additionally teaches at Southern Connecticut State University.