The ALA Nominating Committee announced its nominees for ALA offices October 13. Seeking the 2003–2004 ALA presidency are Carla Hayden, executive director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore; and Katina Strauch, head of collection development at the College of Charleston Libraries in South Carolina. The committee also selected 81 candidates for ALA Council who will be named in the December issue of American Libraries.
Ballot mailing for the election will begin March 4 to all ALA members current as of January 31. Candidates’ statements will appear in the March issue of AL. The results of the president’s race and the race for seats on ALA Council will be posted May 2 on the ALA Web site as well as in the June/July issue of AL.
Barbara J. Ford, assistant commissioner at the Chicago Public Library, chaired the nine-member Nominating Committee.
Posted October 15, 2001.