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BOARD OFFICERS | BOARD MEMBERS | COUNCIL


Board of Directors 2007–2008

Officers

Lewis Lapham,
o Honorary Chair

o Editor Emeritus,
o Harper’s Magazine

Jeffrey A. Scherer,
o Chair

o Principal, Meyer Scherer
o
& Rockcastle, Ltd.

Nancy Dunnan,
o Vice-Chair

o Financial Advisor,
o Economist, and
o Security Analyst;
o Publisher, Travel Smart

 

John Lazarus,
o Treasurer

o President, Retail Resources,
o Inc.

 
Jill Brett,
o Secretary

o Former Director of
o
Communications,
o Library of Congress

Bruce Astrein,
o Executive Director


Board

Deborah Hill Bornheimer
o President,
o Edgar David Hill
o Management Company

Christopher Cerf
o Co-Founder,
o Sirius Thinking, Ltd.
o Executive Producer,
o Between the Lions (PBS)

George Cigale
o Chairman and CEO,
o Tutor.com

 
Dennis Donohue
o Mayor, Salinas CA
 
Diane Filippi
o Director, Urban Center,
o San Francisco Planning
o and Urban Research
o Association (SPUR)

 

Charles Matheson
o Software Specialist in
o Media and Entertainment

Fred Rodriguez
o The Rodriguez Law Group

Tania Tetlow
o Professor of Law,
o Tulane University
o Chair, New Orleans
o Library Board

Kendall Wiggin
o State Librarian
o of Connecticut;
o Former State Librarian
o of New Hampshire




Americans for Libraries Council

The following civic leaders, representing an array of expertise and experience, share a commitment to strengthening our nation’s communities through strong public libraries. They have been named members of the leadership group, Americans for Libraries Council.

Note that from 2004–September 2007, LFF operated under the organizational name Americans for Libraries Council. Today the Council serves as an advisory body to the LFF board.

Kitty Benedict
o Former Senior Editor,
o Harper & Row Publishers

  
John Brademas
o Former Congressman (D-IN);
o Former Chair, President’s o
o Committee on the Arts
o and the Humanities;
o Former President, NYU

 
Craig Buthod
o Director, Louisville Free
o Public Library

 
Benjamin Carson, M.D.
o Professor of Neurosurgery,
o Plastic Surgery,
o Oncology & Pediatrics,
o Johns Hopkins University

 
Schuyler Chapin
o Former Commissioner
o of Cultural Affairs,
o City of New York;
o Dean Emeritus,
o Columbia University

Matt Dunne
o Former Vermont State Senator
 
Maurice J. Freedman, Ph.D.
o President, American Library
o Association
(2003-2004)

Toni Garvey
o Director,
o Phoenix Public Library;
o President, Public Library
o Association
(2001)

Neal Goff
o Executive Vice President,
o Weekly Reader Corporation;
o Former President,
o Scholastic Library Publishing

 
Peter Gomes
o Plummer Professor of
o Christian Morals and
o Pusey Minister
o in the Memorial Church,
o Harvard University

 
Patricia Grey
o Former Director of Elementary o Education, Norwalk Public o
o
Schools

 

 

 

Lawrence K. Grossman
o Co-Chair,
o Digital Promise Project;
o Former President, PBS

Susan Hildreth

o
State Librarian of California

Sanford Kravitz
o Foundation Advisor;
o Former Senior Vice
o President for Programming,
o Arizona Community Foundation

 
Kenneth Miller
o Trustee, Cooper-Hewitt
o National Design Museum
o and Member,
o Education Committee,
o Smithsonian Institution

Peter Pearson
o President, Friends of the
o St. Paul Public Library

 
Susan Petersmeyer
o Board Member,
o Petersmeyer Family
o Foundation

 
Karen Pritzker
o President,
o Seedlings Foundation;
o Secretary of the Board,
o Pritzker Cousins Foundation;
o Board Member, Read to Grow

 
Molly Turner
o Executive Director,
o The Viburnum Foundation

 
James Welbourne
o Director, New Haven (CT)
o Free Public Library

 
Richard Wendorf
o Stanford Calderwood
o Director and Librarian
o of the Boston Athenaeum

 

 
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