Kratz, Romans elected to ALA Executive Board
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ALA Governance
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For Immediate Release
February 13, 2007
Kratz, Romans elected to ALA Executive Board
(CHICAGO) Charles E. Kratz and Larry Romans 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 2007 ALA Midwinter Meeting held January 19 to 24 in Seattle. Kratz and Romans will each serve three-year terms beginning in June 2007 and concluding in June 2010.
Kratz is dean of the Library and Information Fluency, University of Scranton in Scranton, Pa., and has been an active member of the ALA for more than 30 years. He has held leadership positions in the New Members Round Table (NMRT) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Kratz also served as president of the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) from 1997 to 1998. Kratz has chaired several ALA committees and juries including the Beta Phi Mu Award Jury, the ALA Awards Committee and the H.W. Wilson Library Staff Development Grant Jury. Kratz also was a divisional representative to the ALA Executive Director Search Committee from 1996 to 1998 and a member of the 2003 Lippincott Award Jury.
Kratz is currently serving his third term on the ALA Council and is the chair of the ALA Nominating Committee for the 2007 election.
Kratz is president of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) Board of Trustees and a member of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Library Network Board of Directors. He also served as president of the PALINET Board of Trustees in 1998, 1999, and 2001 and as president of OCLC Members Council from 2004 to 2005. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree and Master of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Maryland.
Romans is the head of Government Information Services at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and has been an active member of ALA since 1983. He has served on the ALA Council since 1992.
Currently Romans is chair of the ALA’s Committee on Membership Meetings. He has also chaired ALA’s Legislation Committee and the Special Presidential Task Force on the Membership Meeting Quorum. Romans is a past member of the ALA Committee on Committees, Resolutions Committee, Planning and Budget Assembly, Spectrum Initiative Minority Scholarship Jury and the Structure Revision Task Force. He also held leadership roles in both the Public Library Association (PLA) and the ACRL.
Currently Romans is a member of, and former chair, of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT), the national organization of government information librarians. He is the recipient of the 1995 ALA/GODORT Congressional Information Service Documents to the People Award. Romans is a past member of the Tennessee Library Association (TLA) Executive Board and past chair of the TLA Government Documents Round Table.
Romans received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stetson University, a Master of Arts degree from Tulane University, and a Master of Library Science degree from the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University.
ACRL, PLA and LAMA 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/ourassociation/governanceb/executiveboard/executiveboard.htm.
