Candidates for BCR Spring Election Named
(March 2000 Action for Libraries newsletter)

By Joyce Hillshafer

The eight-member BCR Nominating Committee 2000 has adopted slates of candidates for the BCR Board of Trustees and OCLC Users Council delegate elections this spring. Two candidates are competing for the single position in the BCR OCLC Users Council delegate election. Eleven candidates are running for four seats in the BCR Board of Trustees election.

Information about the BCR OCLC Users Council delegate election can be found on BCR's Web site at www.bcr.org/~jhillsha/uc/. Libraries' designated voters may vote on the Web beginning in mid-March. The deadline for voting is April 24. A single delegate seat will be filled by one of the two following candidates:

    Maggie Farrell, Montana State University
    Sunee Grima, Weber County Library System (Utah)
Information about the BCR Board of Trustess election can be found on the Web site at www.bcr.org/~jhillsha/bot/. Voting will begin on April 3. The deadline for Board of Trustees voting is May 4.

Four seats on the Board of Trustees are up for election, one in each of the following categories. Candidates are:

Research Libraries Trustee

    Kenneth Luker (incumbent), University of Utah
    Sandra Barstow, University of Wyoming
    Rod Henshaw, Drake University (Iowa)
Public Libraries Trustee
    Rosanne Goble (incumbent), Southwest Kansas Library System
    Carol Nugent, Pikes Peak Library District (Colorado)
    Jim Godsey, Council Bluffs Public Library (Iowa)
Academic Libraries Trustee
    Richard Doyle (incumbent), Coe college (Iowa)
    Lois Fitzpatrick, Carroll college Library (Montana)
At-large Trustees
    William Knott (Incumbent), Jefferson County Public Library (Colorado)
    M.J. Poehler, Mercy Hospital Medical Center (Iowa) Later declined because of change to position outside the BCR region.
    Patti Bateman, Aurora Public Library (Colorado)


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