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CHICAGO—The 2022 91´«Ã½/Core elections open Monday, March 14. The Core ballot will include candidates for three Core Board positions: President-Elect, Councilor, and Director-at-Large.
The Core President is elected to a three-year term that begins at the conclusion of the 2022 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference and ends at the conclusion of the 2025 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference, serving one year each as President-Elect (2022–2023), President (2023–2024), and Immediate Past-President (2024–2025). The Division Councilor and Directors-at-Large are elected to three-year terms (2022-2025).
Meet the Candidates
President-Elect
Maurini Strub
Director of Performance & User Engagement
University of Rochester (NY)
Wendy Tressler
Director, Capital Projects and Project Management
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Councilor
Rachel Fleming
Scholarly Communications Librarian
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
George E. Gottschalk
Director, Acquisitions
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Director-at-Large
Andrea Berstler
Executive Director
Carroll County Public Library (MD)
Lauren Corbett
Director of Resource Services
Wake Forest University, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Marty Kurth
Associate University Librarian for Technical Services
Yale University
TJ Lamanna
Head of Community Engagement
Poughkeepsie Public Library District
Jamen McGranahan
Associate Director of Library and Technology Services
Vanderbilt University
91´«Ã½ Election
The following are candidates for 91´«Ã½ President-Elect:
Learn more about the Core election candidates.
Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures is the national association that advances the profession of librarians and information providers in central roles of leadership and management, collections and technical services, and technology. Our mission is to cultivate and amplify the collective expertise of library workers in core functions through community building, advocacy and learning. Core is a division of the 91´«Ã½. Follow us on our , or .
Contact:
Brooke Morris-Chott
Advocacy and EDI Program Officer
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Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures
bmorris@ala.org
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