Freedman Tops ALA Election Slate
Staff -- School Library Journal, 6/1/2001
Maurice "Mitch" Freedman, director of New York's Westchester Library System, has been elected president of the American Library Association (ALA) for 2002–2003. Freedman, who received 4,304 votes, defeated Ken Haycock (3,575 votes), director of the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and William Sannwald (1,888 votes), assistant to the city manager, library design and development, for the city of San Diego, CA.
The American Association of School Librarians chose Nancy Zimmerman, associate professor at the College of Library and Information Science of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, president-elect with 1,118 votes.
Barbara Genco, director of collection development for Brooklyn (NY) Public Library, was voted vice president/president-elect of the Association for Library Service to Children with 418 votes.
Caryn G. Sipos, a librarian at the North Bend Library of the King County (WA) Library System, was elected vice president/president-elect of the Young Adult Library Services Association with 270 votes.
Librarians Jana Fine of the Clearwater (FL) Public Library, Sara Kelly Johns of the Lake Placid (NY) Central School District, and Sharon Coatney of Oak Hill School in Overland Park, KS, were the third-, fourth-, and fifth-highest vote-getters, respectively, elected to ALA's council. All three librarians work with young people.
