Slate for 2014 FTRF trustee election announced

For Immediate Release
Tue, 03/11/2014

Contact:

Jonathan Kelley

Program Officer

Freedom to Read Foundation

312-280-4226

CHICAGO — The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) Nominating Committee has slated 11 candidates for the 2014 FTRF board of trustee election. The FTRF Nominating Committee is composed of Robert P. Doyle, Eva Poole and Carol Brey-Casiano, chair.

Five trustees will be elected to two-year terms in this spring's election.

Candidates for Freedom to Read Foundation Board, 2014–2016

Michael Baldwin, director, Benbrook Public Library, Benbrook, Texas.

Thom Barthelmess, curator, Butler Children’s Literature Center, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, River Forest, Ill.

Martin Garnar, reference services librarian and professor of library science, Regis University, Denver.

Robert Hubsher, executive director, Ramapo Catskill Library System, Middletown, N.Y.

Gretchen McCord, attorney/trainer/consultant, Austin, Texas.

Kathy Ishizuka, executive editor, School Library Journal, New York.

Julius C. Jefferson Jr., information research specialist, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Em Claire Knowles, assistant dean for student affairs, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Boston.

Pattie Piotrowski, assistant dean for public services, Illinois Institute of Technology, Paul V. Galvin Library, Chicago.

Julia Warga, social sciences librarian, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio.

Michael Wright, interim associate university librarian and director, Collections and Scholarly Communication, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Ballots will be mailed April 1 to all current (2014) FTRF members. To join the Freedom to Read Foundation, renew a membership, or confirm membership status, please visit http://www.ftrf.org/?Membership or call (800) 545-2433, ext. 4226.

The Freedom to Read Foundation, an affiliate organization of the American Library Association, was founded in 1969 to promote and defend the right of individuals to freely express ideas and to access information in libraries and elsewhere. FTRF fulfills its mission through the disbursement of grants to individuals and groups, primarily for the purpose of aiding them in litigation, and through direct participation in litigation dealing with freedom of speech and of the press.