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[with apologies for cross posting] For Immediate Release May 6, 2002 President Margaret Law is pleased to announce the appointment of a Search Committee of CLA members to assist in the selection of the Executive Director of the Canadian Library Association (CLA). The Search Committee will work with Association Resource Centre (ARC), Canada's pre-eminent consulting resource to not-for-profit organizations. ARC provides a range of services relating to the needs of associations including executive recruitment. ARC senior partners worked extensively with the Canadian library community during the Commission on the Future of the CLA. Jack Shand, Managing Partner, will be the principal in this assignment, assisted by ARC partner Ken Thacker. The members of the Search Committee represent the breadth and depth of CLA membership in different types of libraries across Canada. Marnie Swanson, a past president of CLA and the University Librarian at the University of Victoria, will chair the committee. The five other members are: Donna Bourne-Tyson, Systems Manager/Reference and AV, North Bay Public Library and Secretary-Treasurer of CAPL; Claudette Cloutier, Manager, Gallagher Library of Geology and Geophysics, University of Calgary, and a former President of CASLIS; Michael Colborne, Coordinator of User Services, Nova Scotia Provincial Library and a member of the CLA Executive Council; Michael Ridley, Chief Librarian of the University of Guelph and Past President Ontario Library Association (OLA); and Steve Salmons, CEO of Windsor Public Library. The process for identifying, recruiting and selecting the Executive Director, approved by the Executive Council, will begin immediately. It is hoped that the process can be completed by the end of June. There will be communications from the Search Committee, as it makes progress in this important task. The Executive Council wishes to thank the members of the Search Committee for assuming this responsibility. If members of the library community have suggestions, they are invited to forward the names of potential candidates to Association Resource Centre by e-mailing Jack Shand in confidence at [log in to unmask] All other enquiries relating to the process should be addressed to President Margaret Law at [log in to unmask] Canadian Library Association 328 Frank Street Ottawa, Ontario CANADA K2P 0X8 (613) 232-9625; Fax: (613) 563-9895 http://www.cla.ca