2025 Election Information
ACRL Candidates for 2025
A complete listing of ACRL Board and section candidates, including bios of vice-president/president-elect candidates Dawn Behrend and Alexia Hudson-Ward (will be posted in C&RL News, January 2025).
Statements from the Vice-President/President-Elect Candidates
ACRL vice-president/president-elect candidates Dawn Behrend and Alexia Hudson-Ward share their plans for ACRL (will be posted in C&RL News, February 2025).
Meet the Candidates
Profiles of the candidates for ACRL vice-president/president-elect, director-at-large, and councilor of the ACRL Board of Directors from ACRL Insider. One candidate will be featured each day beginning February 26, 2025.
Dawn Behrend (vice-president/president-elect)
Alexia Hudson-Ward (vice-president/president-elect)
Andrea Falcone (director-at-large)
Arianne Hartsell-Gundy (director-at-large)
Kimberley Bugg (director-at-large)
Elaine Hirsch (director-at-large)
Millie Gonzalez (councilor)
Cassandra Kvenild (councilor)
ACRL members running for ALA Council in the 2025 election will be listed here.
ACRL 2024 Election Results including the proposed amendments to the Bylaws (PDF)
Brad Warren elected Vice-President/President-Elect - ACRL Insider Announcement; Official Press Release.
Rachel M. Minkin, Interim Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning at Michigan State University, has been elected to the ACRL Board of Directors as Director-at-Large.
Carrie Forbes, Ph.D., University Librarian and Director of the School of Undergraduate Studies and the University Library at Southern Oregon University, has been elected to the ACRL Board of Directors as Director-at-Large.
Election Details
Voting in the 2025 ALA/ACRL election begins March 10, 2025, with members receiving an email announcement between March 10-11 containing voting instructions.
Any individuals whose emails bounced will be sent a "snail-mail" letter with their voting credentials. To be eligible to vote, individuals must have been members in good standing of ALA as well as applicable divisions as of January 31, 2025. Although the election is being conducted online, there remains one exception. Members with disabilities and without Internet access may obtain a paper ballot by contacting ALA customer service at 1 (800) 545-2433. Those without Internet access at home or work can easily access the election site by visiting their local public (or in many instances academic or school) library. Anyone who reinstates their membership after January 31, 2025, will be ineligible to vote in the 2025 elections.
If you don't receive the email, please contact ALA Member Relations and Services at 1-800-545-2433, or customerservice@ala.org.
The 2025 ALA/ACRL election will close on April 2 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, and the results will be made public the afternoon of April 7. More details are available on the ALA Election Page.