Carol A. Brey-Casiano is an information resource officer, a librarian administrator and former president of the
American Library Association
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with 49,727 members a ...
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Education
Brey-Casiano earned a master's degree in library science from University of Illinois. Brey-Casiano earned a PhD from University of Texas at Austin's Graduate School of Library & Information Science.
Career
From 1991 to 1995, she was the Director of the
Oak Park Public Library
The Oak Park Public Library is the public library system serving the village of Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb just west of Chicago. Founded as a public library in 1903, the library has three locations offering books, magazines, movies, music, com ...
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Brey-Casiano served as executive director of the El Paso Public Library.
In 2001, Brey-Casiano stood up against the Texas Ranger, mayor of El Paso, Texas, a lawyer named Francisco DomÃnguez, and the El Paso police for the purpose of protecting intellectual freedom and privacy of library users.
From 2004 to 2005, Brey-Casiano served as the president of the American Library Association.
Brey-Casiano also served as an information resource officer for the United States Department of States.
In September 2017, as the Regional Public Engagement Specialist, Brey-Casiano was an opening ceremony speaker at the Argentine Binational Center Executive Directors Meeting in Argentina.
Awards
* 2012 Jean E. Coleman Library Outreach Lecture
See also
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List of presidents of the American Library Association
The American Library Association, founded in 1876 and chartered in 1879, is the largest professional organization for librarians in the United States. The headquarters of the American Library Association is in Chicago, Illinois.
Table of ALA presi ...
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Intellectual freedom#LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund
References
External links
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Brey-Casiano Delivers 2012 Coleman Lecture at ala.org
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American librarians
American women librarians
Presidents of the American Library Association
21st-century American women