BCR Welcomes New Executive Director / Several Iowans Members of the Board
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June 15, 2006 02:18 PM
The Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) has announced the Board of Trustees' appointment of Brenda Bailey-Hainer as the new executive director of the multistate, nonprofit library network. She will assume her new position July 17.
As director of Networking and Resource Sharing at the Colorado State Library since 1999, Bailey-Hainer has been responsible for the Colorado Virtual Library, oversees statewide resource sharing initiatives for Colorado libraries as well as the AskColorado statewide collaborative virtual reference services and serves as program manager for a digital resource called Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection. Previously, she served in a variety of positions at OCLC, as well as at the UnCover Company and CARL Corporation, both in Denver; Reed Library, Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo.; and Hickman Johnson Furrow Library, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa.
State Librarian Mary Wegner; Greg Cotton, Cole Library, Cornell College; Emily Navarre, Southeastern Library Services; and Suzann Holland, Oskaloosa Public Library are members of the BCR Board of Trustees. Navarre and Holland will complete their terms of office on June 30, 2006.
As director of Networking and Resource Sharing at the Colorado State Library since 1999, Bailey-Hainer has been responsible for the Colorado Virtual Library, oversees statewide resource sharing initiatives for Colorado libraries as well as the AskColorado statewide collaborative virtual reference services and serves as program manager for a digital resource called Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection. Previously, she served in a variety of positions at OCLC, as well as at the UnCover Company and CARL Corporation, both in Denver; Reed Library, Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo.; and Hickman Johnson Furrow Library, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa.
Iowans on the BCR Board
State Librarian Mary Wegner; Greg Cotton, Cole Library, Cornell College; Emily Navarre, Southeastern Library Services; and Suzann Holland, Oskaloosa Public Library are members of the BCR Board of Trustees. Navarre and Holland will complete their terms of office on June 30, 2006.