News Releases

BCR Board Elects Officers

AURORA, COLO, September 12, 2007 — The Board of Trustees of BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) has elected officers for the July 2007-June 2008 fiscal year. The Board elected Greg Cotton, Technical Services librarian, Cole Library, Cornell College, (Iowa), to serve as president. Ann Joslin, Idaho state librarian, was elected vice president.

In addition to officiating at Board meetings, the two will serve on the BCR Executive Committee. They will join Gina Millsap, executive director, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library (Kan.); Mary Wegner, Iowa state librarian; Mary Anne Hansen, associate professor/reference librarian, Renne Library, Montana State University; and Brenda Bailey-Hainer, BCR executive director and Board treasurer.

Four people were elected to the BCR Board of Trustees and will represent BCR member libraries through June 2009. New members are Ann Marie Clark, director, Arnold Library, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Wash.), special libraries trustee; Nancy White, Media Services specialist, Academy School District 20, Colorado Springs (Colo.), special libraries trustee; Kate Gordon, Administrative Services librarian, Consortium Library, University of Alaska, Anchorage, at-large trustee. Greg Cotton, at-large trustee, was elected to a second term.

Dawn Wittman, director, Lewiston (Idaho) City Library was appointed to fill the at-large position on the Board vacated by John Pollitz, former associate university librarian for Public Services and Innovative Technology, Oregon State University Libraries, Corvallis.

Sheryl Taylor, director of Library Services, John & Louise Hulst Library, Dordt College (Iowa), was elected as BCR delegate to the OCLC Members Council.

For more information about BCR, see www.bcr.org/.

The Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) is a nonprofit, multistate library cooperative that has served the library community since its founding in 1935, providing cost-effective library and information services. Today BCR (www.bcr.org/) serves libraries in 42 states, Canada and Guam, many through statewide agreements with state library agencies in 11 western states making all libraries in those states BCR member institutions.