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BCR Board Elects Officers

AURORA, CO, September 6, 2005 — The BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) a multistate, nonprofit library network Board of Trustees has elected officers for the July 2005-June 2006 fiscal year. The Board reelected Stephen Rollins, dean of Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage, to serve as president. Brenda Bailey-Hainer, director of Networking and Resource Sharing at the Colorado State Library, who was appointed last year to replace retiring Montana State Librarian Karen Strege as BCR Board vice president, this year was elected to that office.

In addition to officiating at Board meetings, the two will serve on the BCR Executive Committee. They will join Melisa Nicoud, librarian, National Museum of Wildlife (Wyo.); Sandra Barstow, assistant dean for Administration and Finance, University of Wyoming Libraries; Teresa Garrison, assistant director of libraries, Kansas City Kansas Public Schools/Kansas City Kansas Public Library; and David Brunell, BCR executive director and Board treasurer.

Meetings of the BCR Board of Trustees are scheduled for Sept. 16, 2005; Dec. 9, 2005; Feb. 17, 2006; and May 12, 2006.

BCR has served the library community since its founding in 1935, providing cost-effective library and information services. Today BCR serves more than 1,086 voting-member libraries in 42 states, Canada and Guam, many through statewide agreements with state library agencies in 11 western states Alaska, Colorado, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming that allow all libraries in those states to use BCR services as member institutions. BCR provides the latest in information and technology training, access, OCLC products and services, electronic databases, e-books, consulting services and custom cataloging.

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