The American Library Association (ALA) has announced that Dora T. Ho, Sylvia K. Norton and Michael Porter have been elected to serve on the ALA Executive Board. The new board members were elected by the ALA Council in a vote taken at the 2011 ALA Midwinter Meeting held January 7-11, 2011, in San Diego. Ho, Norton and Porter will each serve three-year terms beginning in July 2011 and concluding in June 2014.
Ho has served on Council as councilor-at-large since 2003. She has also served on numerous committees and was president of the New Members Round Table (NMRT) 2001-2002. She is also a member of the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) as well as the California Library Association, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) and the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), which she served as both president and treasurer.
Porter, communications manager with WebJunction in Seattle, has served on ALA Council since 2010. He has served as a member of the Equitable Access to Electronic Content Task Force and is an instructor for the ALA-APA Certified Public Library Administrator (CPLA) programme.
Norton, a state level coordinator for school libraries in Maine, has served on Council as the American Association for School Librarians (AASL) councilor since 2006. She currently serves on the executive committee of the AASL board of directors and has held numerous leadership positions within AASL.
The ALA Executive Board manages the affairs of the association. It is composed of the president, president-elect, immediate past president, treasurer, executive director and eight members elected by Council from among the members of that body.
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