Hogan, Matthews, and Young elected to ALA Executive Board
Contact: JoAnne Kempf
Office of ALA Governance
312-280-3212
jkempf@ala.org
NEWS
For Immediate Release
February 11, 2009
(CHICAGO) Patricia M. Hogan, Stephen L. Matthews and Courtney L. Young have been elected to serve on the American Library Association (ALA) Executive Board. The new board members were elected by the ALA Council in a vote taken at the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting held Jan. 23 to 28 in Denver. Hogan, Matthews and Young will each serve three-year terms beginning in July 2009 and concluding in June 2012.
Hogan is an administrative librarian at the Poplar Creek Public Library District in Streamwood, Ill. She has been a member of ALA since 1972 and has served on Council as the Illinois State Chapter Councilor (1989-1992) and as Councilor-at-Large since 1995. Hogan has served on numerous committees and chaired the Constitution & Bylaws Committee from 2001-2002. She is also a member of the Library Leadership & Management Association (LLAMA), the Public Library Association (PLA), the Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange Round Table (CLENE); the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT); Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT); and the Library Support Staff Interests Round Table (LSSIRT), and has held numerous committee positions with these organizations. Hogan is a graduate of Rosary College and holds an MA degree in English, Language & Literature from the University of Chicago, as well as an MALS Degree from Dominican University.
Matthews, a librarian with the Currier Library at the Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Va., has been a member of ALA since 1977 and has served on ALA Council since 1985. His committee service has included chairing the Committee on Organization and the Policy Monitoring Committee. He is an active member of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the Intellectual Freedom Round Table and the Freedom to Read Foundation. Matthews has held numerous leadership positions in the Virginia Library Association and served as the VLA president from 1991-1992. Matthews is a graduate of Hiram College and holds and AMLS degree from the University of Michigan School of Information and an MAT degree from Connecticut College.
Young is a reference librarian and professor of Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University, Beaver Campus, in Monaca, Pa. She has been a member of ALA since 2002 and has served on Council as the New Members Round Table councilor (2005-2008) and has served as Councilor-at-Large since 2008. She is an active member of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), serving on several ACRL committees, and the New Members Round Table, which she currently serves as vice-president/president-elect. Young is a graduate of the College of Wooster and holds and MS degree from Simmons College.
AASL, ACRL, LLAMA, PLA, RUSA and YALSA are divisions of the ALA.
The ALA Executive Board manages the affairs of the association. It is composed of the president, president-elect, immediate past president, treasurer, executive director and eight members elected by Council from among the members of that body. For more information on the Executive Board, please visit http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/governance/officers/index.cfm .
