The Canadian Library Association has announced the results of its first election under its new governance structure. MALT would like to extend congratulations to all those elected, but especially to Karen Hildebrandt and to John Tooth.
Karen is the Access Services Coordinator at Concordia University College of Alberta, and the only Library Technician to run for the executive. She was formerly convenor of the CLA Library Technician Interest Group and served as president of the Alberta Association of Library Technicians. She was the winner of the 2011 CLA LGIT Award of Merit. We are very proud of Karen’s achievements and happy to have such strong representation for Library Technicians at the national level.
John is the Coordinator of the Instructional Resources Unit, Manitoba Education and has long been an active member of the Manitoba library community. He has won numerous awards for his contributions, including the Margaret B. Scott Award for Leadership in School Libraries in Canada, the Manitoba Library Association Librarian of the Year, the Angela Thacker Memorial Award (with the other members of the CASL Publications Editorial Board) and most recently the Manitoba School Library Association Distinguished Service Award.
