Courtney Louise Young Elected to Lead the American Library Association
Filed in Breaking News, Leadership on May 10, 2013
Courtney Louise Young, head librarian at the Allegheny campus of Pennsylvania State University, has been elected president-elect of the American Library Association. She was chosen by the association’s membership by a vote of 5,391 to 5,029 over Barbara Froling Immroth, professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin.
Young will become president-elect of the oldest and largest library association in the world at the conclusion of the 2013 annual conference in Chicago. A year later, she will become president of the association.
Young is a graduate of the College of Wooster, where she majored in English. She holds a master of library science degree from Simmons College.