About the Results Boot Camp Instructors:

June Garcia has over 35 years experience as a public librarian. Her experience includes six years as director of an urban library (San Antonio Public Library), twelve years as the administrator of a branch library system (Phoenix Public Library), and five years as a branch manager. She has served as CEO of the CARL Corporation, and as Vice President and ChiefAmbassador of TLC/CARL, both major library automation companies providing integrated systems to public libraries and consortia. Ms. Garcia is now a managing partner, along with Ronald Dubberly, of Dubberly Garcia Associates, a broad-based consulting company serving the library industry.

Ms. Garcia has been an active participant for the past twenty years in the Public Library Association's efforts to develop tools that will enable public librarians and trustees to effectively plan, measure and evaluate public library service.  She is co-author, along with Sandra Nelson, of Creating Policies for Results: From Chaos to Clarity (ALA 2003) and currently serves as Associate Editor of PLA's Results series.

Ms. Garcia was the President of the Public Library Association from 1991-1992, and she has served three terms on the ALA Council.  Ms. Garcia has been a frequent speaker at library conferences on a wide variety of topics relating to public library planning, branch library services, measurement and evaluation, facilities planning, and intellectual freedom.

Sandra Nelson is a consultant, speaker, trainer, and writer specializing in public library planning and management issues. She has worked in both small and large public libraries and in two state library agencies. She has presented hundreds of training programs and facilitated strategic planning processes in dozens libraries during the past thirty years. She was named Librarian of the Year by the Arizona State Library Association in 1987, received the ASCLA Professional Achievement Award in 1996, and received the Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of North Texas School of Information Science in 1999. She chaired the committee that developed the original Planning for Results: A Public Library Transformation Process (1997). Ms. Nelson is the author of Planning for Results: A Streamlined Approach (2001) and she is co-author of Creating Policies for Results: From Chaos to Clarity (2003), Wired for the Future: Developing Your Library Technology Plan (1999) and Managing For Results: Effective Resource Allocation for Public Libraries (2000), all published by ALA. She is currently the Senior Editor of the PLA Results series.

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