Freedman Elected
2002–2003 ALA President
Maurice J. (Mitch) Freedman, director of the Westchester (N.Y.) Library System, has been elected president of the 61,000-member American Library Association for the 2002–2003 term. Freedman received 4,304 votes beating challengers Ken Haycock, professor and director at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies in Vancouver, and William W. Sannwald, assistant to the city manager, library design and development, for the city of San Diego, who received 3,575 and 1,888 votes respectively.
“The three key positions of my campaign were to fight externally imposed filtering software; to work vigorously to support diversity in the organization, librarianship, and our society; and to improve the salaries of librarians and library workers and achieve pay equity,” Freedman said. “I will take the results of this election as a validation of these important initiatives.”
A 35-year ALA member, five-term ALA councilor, and past president of ALA’s Library and Information Technology Association, Freedman is publisher and editor-in-chief of The Unabashed Librarian. He has a master’s degree in library science from the University of California/Berkeley, and a doctorate from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Freedman will become president-elect in July 2001, and will begin his one-year presidential term in July 2002 following the ALA Annual Conference in Atlanta.
Posted May 7, 2001.
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