May 23, 2008
BCR Trustees and OCLC Members Council Delegate Elected
BCR members have elected four representatives to the 2008-2009 Board of Trustees, including returning two incumbents to serve second terms on BCR's governing board. One new BCR delegate to the OCLC Members Council also was elected.
Individuals elected to two-year terms on the Board of Trustees are:
- Academic Library trustee — Cecilia Knight, Grinnell College, Iowa
- Public Library trustee — Gina Millsap (incumbent), Topeka Public Library, Kansas
- Research Library trustee — Nancy Allen (incumbent), Penrose Library, University of Denver, Colorado
- At-large trustee — James LaRue, Douglas County Libraries, Colorado
Dr. Lorraine Haricombe, University of Kansas Libraries, was elected to a three-year term as the new BCR delegate to OCLC Members Council.
Board Officers Also Named
Anne Marie Clark, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Washington, was elected by the Board as the newest member of the BCR Executive Committee. She joins Greg Cotton, Cornell College, Iowa, who chairs the BCR Board of Trustees, and Ann Joslin, Idaho state librarian and vice-chair of the BCR Board of Trustees, each of whom last year was elected to a two-year term on the Executive Committee. Along with her reelection to the Board, Gina Millsap, Topeka Public Library, was returned to a second year on the Executive Committee, as was Mary Wegner, Iowa state librarian.
The 2008-2009 BCR Board of Trustees will meet September 26 at BCR's offices in Aurora, Colorado.
