Brey-Casiano Elected ALA President;
Switzer Wins as Treasurer
Carol A. Brey-Casiano, executive director of the El Paso (Tex.) Public Library, has been elected 2004–2005 president of the 64,000-member American Library Association. Brey-Casiano received 4,221 of the 9,844 votes cast and will serve one year as vice-president/president-elect before she takes office at the end of the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando in July 2004.
“I am extremely pleased to be elected the next president of ALA, and want to thank my colleagues for their faith in my abilities,” Brey-Casiano said. “Together, we can tell our story to the American people, making it clear that libraries—and the people who work in them—are essential to our democracy.”
Currently a member of ALA's governing Council and manager of her own consulting firm, Brey-Casiano has served as director of the Thomas Branigan Memorial Library System in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She was also director of the Oak Park (Ill.) Public Library and served as the youngest director of the Muskogee (Okla.) Public Library at age 24.
Brey-Casiano defeated Robert R. Newlen, head of the Legislative Relations Office at the Library of Congress, and Herman L. Totten, regents professor in the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas in Denton.
Teri R. Switzer, assistant director for Human Resources and Budget, Auraria Library in Denver, was elected, with 2,903 votes, to fill the remainder of the ALA treasurer term vacated by Liz Bishoff. Her one-year term begins in June.
Switzer defeated Donna Dziedzic, director of Naperville (Ill.) Public Library, and JoAnn G. Mondowney, assistant director of the Flint (Mich.) Public Library.
Council election results are available from the ALA Public Information Office.
Posted May 5, 2003.
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