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CHICAGO - The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (ALA) Council has elected Latrice Booker, Larry Neal and Alexandra Rivera to serve on the ¾«¶«´«Ã½Executive Board. The Executive Board election took place during the 2020 ¾«¶«´«Ã½Midwinter Meeting held Jan. 24-28, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Elected board members will begin a three-year term beginning in July 2020 and concluding in June 2023.

Latrice Booker is the dean of library services at Indiana University Northwest. She holds a B.A. in Spanish from IU Northwest, an MLS from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis and an MBA from IU Northwest. Booker is currently pursuing an Ed.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University Bloomington. She serves as Indiana Library Federation president-elect; an executive board member of the Black Caucus of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ (BCALA); an ¾«¶«´«Ã½councilor at-large; and a member of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½Committee on Organization and the ¾«¶«´«Ã½Council Orientation Committee. Her professional affiliations include the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA); the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL); the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT); the Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT); the Library Research Round Table (LRRT); the Rainbow Round Table (RRT); the Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT); the National Association to Promote Literacy and Information Skills to Latinos and Spanish Speaking (REFORMA); and the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC).

Larry Neal is the director of the Clinton-Macomb Public Library in Clinton Township, Michigan and adjunct clinical associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He holds a B.A. in Spanish and German and an MBA from Oakland University as well as an MSI-LIS from the University of Michigan. He is a past president of the Michigan Library Association and the Public Library Association (PLA), a division of ALA. He currently serves as a member of ¾«¶«´«Ã½Council and the ¾«¶«´«Ã½Planning and Budget Assembly. Neal is an ¾«¶«´«Ã½Public Policy and Advocacy Office Policy Corps fellow and a member of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½Policy Corps Workgroup. His professional affiliations include LLAMA, PLA, United for Libraries, International Relations Round Table, RRT, Michigan Library Association and the Freedom to Read Foundation.

Alexandra Rivera is the student success and community engagement librarian at the University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Rivera holds an MLIS from the University of Michigan School of Information and a BS from Northern Arizona University in Communications, Broadcasting and Production. She is an ¾«¶«´«Ã½Spectrum Scholar, has served as an Association of Research Libraries Leadership and Career Development Program fellow and is an ¾«¶«´«Ã½Equality Award recipient. Rivera currently serves as an ¾«¶«´«Ã½councilor at-large, chair of the ¾«¶«´«Ã½Nominating Committee and vice president of the (JCLC). Rivera has served as a past chair of ACRL - University Libraries Section. Her professional affiliations include ACRL, EMIERT, IFRT, Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT), New Members Round Table (NMRT), JCLC, REFORMA, BCALA, and the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA).

The ¾«¶«´«Ã½Executive 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. For more information on the Executive Board, please visit .