ALA Councilors Elected; Margolis, Swan Hill Leading Vote-Getters
-- Library Journal, 5/3/2007
Forty-one members have been elected to the American Library Association (ALA) Council, serving three-year terms, which begin at the end of the 2007 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC and extend through the end of the 2010 Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. The leading vote-getters were Bernard A. Margolis, Janet Swan Hill, Diane Chen, Sarah Flowers, Cristina Ramirez, and Lynn Strickland. Winning Councilors earned between 30.8% and 22.2% of the vote.
In alphabetical order, the 2007-2010 Councilors-at-Large are: Ismail Abdullahi; Gladys Smiley Bell; James B. Casey; Diane R. Chen; Catharine Cook; John C. DeSantis; Nadine M. Flores; Sarah Flowers; Elaine Harger; Amy Harmon; Allene Hayes; Janet Swan Hill; Susan Hill; Sue Kamm; Em Claire Knowles; Bernard A. Margolis; Heather T. McClure; Barbara Miller; Catherine L. Murray-Rust; Melora Ranney Norman; M.A. (Peg) Oettinger; Charles Pace; Brenda Pruitt Annisette; Cristina Ramirez; Elizabeth Ann Ridler; Susan Roman; Annemarie Roscello; Kay Runge; Lynn Strickland; Patricia A. Wand; Thomas L. Wilding; J. Linda Williams; Liana H. Zhou
Several councilors were elected from ALA Divisions and Round Tables. Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL): Locke J. Morrisey. Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA): Kendall F. Wiggin. Library and Information Technology Association (LITA): Colby Mariva Riggs. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT): John C. Sandstrom. Government Documents Round Table (GODORT): Mary Mallory. Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT): Timothy P. Grimes. Library Research Round Table (LRRT): Sarah M. Pritchard. Library Support Staff Interests Round Table (LSSIRT): Jennifer S. Kutzik.
