Dziedzic elected new ASCLA president

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ALA News Release


For Immediate Release


August 2000

Dziedzic elected new ASCLA president

Donna Dziedzic, director of the Naperville (Ill.) Public Library, is the new president of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). She assumed office in July.

“During my year as president I plan to concentrate on enhancing the division’s funding base and increasing the visibility of ASCLA and its constituencies within ALA,” said Dziedzic.

Dziedzic was the sole principal of Organization Transition Solutions, a firm that assists associations, small businesses and libraries with administrative, organizational and development support. Dziedzic has served as interim executive director of the Illinois Library Association, senior program director of the ALA and director of the Andrew Heiskell Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of The New York Public Library. Other positions include assistant state librarian for the New Jersey State Library, director of the Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and three positions at the Chicago Public Library.

Dziedzic has a bachelor's degree from Salve Regina University, Newport, R.I. and a master's degree in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

An active member of ALA, Dziedzic has served on the ASCLA Roads to Learning National Advisory Board, the ALA Special Committee on Elections and on a number of accreditation teams for the ALA Office of Accreditation. In 1997, Dziedzic received the ASCLA Service Award.

Dziedzic also was the project director and chair of the advisory committee that prepared the “Revised Standards and Guidelines of Service for the Library of Congress Network of Libraries for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, 1995.”

ASCLA is devoted to the development of specialized and cooperative library activities. Its 1,000 members represent state library agencies, specialized library agencies, multitype library cooperatives and librarians who work outside of traditional library settings.