Action for Libraries
BCR Welcomes New Director
Brenda Bailey-Hainer has been appointed by the BCR Board of Directors as the new executive director of the multistate, nonprofit library
network. She will assume her new position on July 17.
"Brenda will bring to her new position an impressive track record of accomplishments working with library networks, nonprofit organizations, state government and library consortia," said BCR Board President Stephen Rollins, dean of Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage. "Brenda has an excellent understanding of the current operating environment for library networks and an appreciation of emerging information technologies."
"As a current member of the Board of Trustees, Brenda has a good understanding of BCR, its mission and strategic goals," Rollins continued, noting that the Board of Trustees selected Bailey-Hainer from among a number of highly qualified candidates to fill BCR's top post.
Extensive Library Background
As director of Networking and Resource Sharing at the Colorado State Library since 1999, Bailey-Hainer has been responsible for the
Colorado Virtual Library, oversees statewide resource sharing initiatives for Colorado libraries and the AskColorado statewide collaborative
virtual reference service and serves as program manager for a digital resource called Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection.
Previously, she served in a variety of positions at OCLC, as well as at the UnCover Company and CARL Corporation, both in Denver; Reed
Library, Fort Lewis College in Durango (Colorado); and Hickman Johnson Furrow Library, Morningside College, Sioux City (Iowa).
Bailey-Hainer was honored with the Mountain Plains Library Association President's Board Choice Award in 2005, named among the 2002 "Movers and Shakers" by Library Journal and awarded Librarian of the Year for 2001 by the Colorado Library Association (CLA). She received the CLA Technology Project of the Year award in 2004 for Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection. She is active in state and national library associations and currently serves on the ALA ASCLA Board.
Bailey-Hainer is currently working on a Ph.D. in public affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. She earned her MLS at Kent State University (Ohio) in 1983, an M.M. in music literature from the University of South Dakota and a B.F.A. in creative writing from Bowling Green State University (Ohio).