The Public Library Association (PLA) has announced that Carolyn Anthony, director of the Skokie (Ill.) Public Library, has been elected the 2013-2014 president of the PLA.
Anthony has been actively involved in PLA throughout her career, serving on the PLA Board from 1987–1989 and again from 2005–2009, chairing the Public Libraries Advisory Board, representing PLA at ALA’s Congress on Professional Education and now chairing PLA’s Leadership Task Force. She is a past-president of the Illinois Library Association and was Librarian of the Year in Illinois in 2003. Under her leadership, the Skokie Public Library was recognised by the Institute of Museum and Library Services with a National Medal in 2008.
Anthony will become PLA president-elect at the conclusion of the 2012 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference this June and will assume the PLA presidency in June 2013 for one year, presiding over the PLA 2014 Conference.
