List of presidents of the American Library Association

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The following is a list of presidents of the American Library Association.

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Background

The American Library Association (ALA), 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.

Role and responsibilities

Since 1889, the President of the ALA serves a term of one year, and during each election (held every two years), the president's immediate successor is also elected, serving as Vice President until the start of their own term. The Vice President appoints members of committees on recommendation of the presidents-elect of the divisions, subject to approval from the Board.

In practice, despite being the legal head of the Association, the President of the ALA is mostly a figurehead, with most of their unique duties revolving around representing/acting as spokesperson for the Association to the public and other organizations, maintaining unity and values in the organization, protecting the Executive Director from inappropriate interference by members, and presiding at Board and Council Meetings, although they can appoint interim members of committees in the case of a vacancy until a successor is determined. The Executive Board administers established policies and programs and manages overall affairs of the organization (such as financial and progress reports) while giving policy recommendations to the Council, while the Executive Director (elected at the pleasure of the Board) manages day-to-day operations and the headquarters. The President, Vice President, immediate past President, Treasurer, and Executive Director are all members of the Executive Board (along with other members selected by the council for three-year terms), with the President acting as Chairperson. The governing body is the Council, which determines the policies of the Association, and to which all American Library Association units are responsible. Members of the Board are also ex-officio members of the Council, although the Executive Director cannot vote, and the President can only vote in case of a tie. [1] [2]

Table of ALA presidents

ImageNameTermOther ALA postsOther accomplishments
Justin Winsor 2.JPG Justin Winsor [3] 1876–1885Also served as president July–Oct. 1897.President of the American Historical Association, 1887. Director, Boston Public Library; Director Harvard Library.
WilliamFPoole BostonAthenaeum15.png William Frederick Poole [4] 1885–1887President of the American Historical Association, 1888. Librarian, Boston Mercantile Library; Director, Boston Athenaeum; Director, Cincinnati Public Library; Director, Chicago Public Library; Director, Newberry Library.
CharlesAmmiCutter BostonAthenaeum.png Charles Ammi Cutter [5] 1887–1889Developed the Cutter Expansive Classification system which became the basis for the top categories of the Library of Congress Classification; Director of the Boston Athenaeum,1869-1892. [6]
Frederick Morgan Crunden ALA.jpg Frederick Morgan Crunden 1889–1890Director St. Louis Public Library, 1877-1909; First president of the Missouri State Library Association.
Melvil Dewey.jpg Melvil Dewey [7] 1890 – July 1891Also served as president 1892–1893; Served as treasurer, 1876–1877 and 1880–1881; Served as secretary 1879–1890 and 1897–1898.Developer of the Dewey Decimal System.
Samuel Swett Green.jpg Samuel Swett Green July–Nov. 1891"Father of reference work." [8]
KA Linderfelt photo.jpg Klas August Linderfelt October 16, 1891 – May 22, 1892Councilor 1883–1891, vice president 1890–1891. Resigned following his arrest for embezzling from the Milwaukee Public Library and the executive board voted Fletcher the new president, retroactive to the beginning of the term. To this day, Linderfelt is absent from official ALA lists of its past presidents. [9] [10] First librarian of the Milwaukee Public Library, 1880–1892
William Isaac Fletcher.jpg William Isaac Fletcher May 22, 1892 – 1892Editor of ALA Index to General Literature.Director, Amherst College library, 1883-1911.
Melvil Dewey.jpg Melvil Dewey1892–1893See above.
Josephus Nelson Larned.jpg Josephus Nelson Larned [11] 1893–1894Chair ALA Advisory Committee to select 5,000 volumes for a model library at the World's Columbian Exposition President of the New York Library Association in 1896.
Henry Munson Utley.jpg Henry Munson Utley 1894–1895Director of the Detroit Public Library 1885-1913. [12]
John Cotton Dana 01.jpg John Cotton Dana [13] 1895–1896Founder of the Newark Museum, 1909. Founder of the Special Libraries Association.
William Howard Brett.jpg William Howard Brett 1896–1897Developed the library school program at Western Reserve University. Dean, 1903.
Justin Winsor 2.JPG
Justin WinsorJuly–Oct. 1897See above.
Rutherford Platt Hayes.jpg Rutherford P. Hayes Oct. 1897-Jan. 1898Vice-president Hayes (son of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes) assumed the office of Acting President upon the death of Winsor without election by the executive board, despite the fact that it was unclear whether or not the ALA constitution allowed this. His successor, Putnam, was elected president following a special election. [14]
HERBERT PUTNAM - LCCN2016860842 (cropped).tif Herbert Putnam [15] Jan.–Aug. 1898Also served as president 1903–1904. Librarian of Congress, 1899–1939.
William Coolidge Lane.jpg William Coolidge Lane 1898–1899Served as ALA secretary and treasurer for fourteen years and as chairman of its publishing board.Director of Harvard University Library, [16] President of the Bibliographical Society of America.
Reuben Gold Thwaites.png Reuben Gold Thwaites 1899–1900President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1910.
Henry James Carr.jpg Henry James Carr 1900–1901Also served as treasurer, 1886–1893; Served as secretary 1898–1900.Director of Scranton Public Library, 1891-1929.
John Shaw Billings 001.jpg John Shaw Billings [17] 1901–1902First director of the New York Public Library. Modernizer of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office.
James Kendall Hosmer.jpg James Kendall Hosmer 1902–1903Director, Minneapolis Public Library, 1892–1904. Author of many history books including The American Civil War. [18]
HERBERT PUTNAM - LCCN2016860842 (cropped).tif Herbert Putnam1903–1904See above.
Ernest Cushing Richardson ALA.jpg Ernest Cushing Richardson [19] 1904–1905Richardson Classification. [20]
Frank Pierce Hill.jpg Frank Pierce Hill 1905–1906Also served as secretary 1891–1895.First director of the Newark Public Library, 1889.
Clement Walker Andrews 1907.jpg Clement Walker Andrews 1906–1907President of the American Library Institute from 1922 to 1924.
Arthur Elmore Bostwick.jpg Arthur Elmore Bostwick 1907–1908Director of Saint Louis Public Library, 1909-1938.
Mr. Charles H. Gould in Montreal, Canada.tif Charles Henry Gould [21] 1908–1909Chaired ALA Committee on Interlibrary Loan. [22] First university librarian at McGill University, 1892, President of the Bibliographical Society of America
N C D Hodges (cropped).jpg Nathaniel Dana Carlile Hodges 1909–1910Director of the Cincinnati Public Library, 1900-1924.Notable Ohio Librarians Hall of Fame, 1980.
J. I. Wyer Jr (cropped).jpg James Ingersoll Wyer 1910–1911Also served as secretary, 1902–1909. From 1916 to 1920, chaired Library War Service Committee.Director of the New York State Library, 1908-1938. [23]
Theresa Elmendorf 1912 (cropped).jpg Theresa West Elmendorf 1911–1912American Library Association's first woman president.President of the New York Library Association 1903–1904.
Henry E Legler (cropped).jpg Henry Eduard Legler 1912–1913Secretary, Wisconsin Library Commission, 1904-1909. Librarian, Chicago Public Library, 1909-1917. Curator, Wisconsin Historical Society
Portrait of Edwin H. Anderson.jpg Edwin Hatfield Anderson 1913–1914Also served as treasurer, 1895–1896Director of the New York Public Library, 1909–1934.
Hiller Crowell Wellman 1914 (page 556 crop).jpg Hiller Crowell Wellman 1914–1915Librarian for the Springfield (Massachusetts) City Library from 1902- 1948.
Mary wright pratt.jpg Mary Wright Plummer 1915–1916Member of the first class taught by Melvil Dewey at the School of Library Economy, 1887.
1916 WalterLBrown AmericanLibraryAssociation.jpeg Walter Lewis Brown 1916–1917Created the ALA War Service Committee 1917.Director of the Buffalo, NY Public Library, 1906-1931; President of the New York Library Association, 1906. [24]
Thomas Lynch Montgomery 001.jpg Thomas Lynch Montgomery 1917–1918Founded the Pennsylvania Library Club, 1890.

Established the first branch of the Philadelphia Free Library, 1892.

William Warner Bishop (cropped).jpg William Warner Bishop [25] 1918–1919Director University of Michigan Library, 1915-1941, reorganized Vatican Library and archives, President of the Bibliographical Society of America
Chalmers-hadley-president-of-c85284.jpg Chalmers Hadley 1919–1920Also served as secretary, 1909–1911.Director, Denver Public Library,1911–1924. Director Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, 1924–1945.
Alice S. Tyler (cropped).jpg Alice S. Tyler 1920–1921Dean of the School of Library Science at Western Reserve University, 1912–1929
Azariah Smith Root ALA.png Azariah Smith Root [26] 1921–1922Founding member of the ALA College Library Section, 1899.Director, Oberlin College Library, President of the Bibliographical Society of America
Librarian Utley Jacksonville Free Public Library (cropped).jpg George Burwell Utley 1922–1923Also served as secretary, 1911–1920.First director of the first tax supported public library in the state of Florida, Jacksonville Public Library, 1905.
Judson Toll Jennings.tif Judson Toll Jennings 1923–1924Director of the Seattle Public Library, 1907-1942.
H. H. B. Meyer.tif Herman H. B. Meyer 1924–1925Initiated the Library of Congress services for the blind,President of the Bibliographical Society of America
Charles F. D. Belden.jpg Charles F. D. Belden 1925–1926Director of the Boston Public Library, 1917. [27]
George H Locke (cropped).jpg George H. Locke 1926–1927Chief Librarian at Toronto Public Library, 1908–1937.
Carl B. Roden.jpg Carl B. Roden 1927–1928Also served as treasurer, 1910–1920.Chief librarian of the Chicago Public Library, 1918 to 1950, President of the Bibliographical Society of America
Linda Eastman (cropped).tif Linda A. Eastman 1928–1929Founding member and later president of the Ohio Library Association.
Andrew Keogh (cropped).tif Andrew Keogh 1929–1930Librarian at Yale University, President of the Bibliographical Society of America
Adam Strohm, 1917 (cropped).jpg Adam Strohm 1930–1931Director Detroit Public Library, 1912–1941
Josephine adams rathbone3.jpg Josephine Adams Rathbone 1931–1932Director, Pratt Institute Library School. [28]
Harry Miller Lydenberg, 1919 (cropped).jpg Harry Miller Lydenberg [29] 1932–1933Director of the Board of International Relations of the American Library Association, 1943–1946.Director of New York Public Library, 1934–1941, President of the Bibliographical Society of America.
Gratia Alta Countryman 1917.jpg Gratia A. Countryman 1933–1934Director of Minneapolis Public Library, 1904–1936. President of the Minnesota Library Association,1904–1905.
Charles H. Compton 1934–1935 Library War Service Director, St. Louis Public Library, 1938–1950.
Louis Round Wilson.jpg Louis Round Wilson [30] 1935–1936Dean, University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Malcolm Glenn Wyer (cropped).jpg Malcolm Glenn Wyer 1936–1937 Library War Service President, Iowa Library Association, Nebraska Library Association, Colorado Library Association
Harrison W. Craver (cropped).jpg Harrison Warwick Craver 1937–1938Director, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh [31]
Milton J. Ferguson (cropped).jpg Milton James Ferguson 1938–1939Appointment of Librarian of Congress Committee 1937-1939President Oklahoma Library Association; State Librarian of California, President, California Library Association,Chief Librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library, President, New York Library Association.
Ralph Munn.jpg Ralph Munn 1939–1940Director, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1928–1964. Pennsylvania Library Association President, 1930–31
Portrait of Essae Martha Culver (cropped).jpg Essae Martha Culver 1940–1941First state librarian of Louisiana
Charles Harvey Brown.jpg Charles Harvey Brown 1941–1942Founder, Association of College and Research Libraries [32] Director, Iowa State University Library 1922- 1946
Keyes Metcalf, 1919 (cropped).jpg Keyes D. Metcalf 1942–1943
Althea Warren.jpg Althea H. Warren 1943–1944Director of the American Library Association, National Defense Book Campaign. [33] President, California Library Association, 1921; Director of the Los Angeles Public Library, 1933-1947 [34]
Carl Vitz, Librarian.jpg Carl Vitz 1944–1945Director, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, 1946–1955
Ralph A. Ulveling [35] 1945–1946Director, Detroit Public Library, 1941–1967. President, Michigan Library Association, 1937–1938.
Mary Utopia Rothrock Vanderbilt University 1911 yeabook page (cropped).jpg Mary U. Rothrock [36] 1946–1947Supervised the Tennessee Valley Authority libraries from 1934 to 1948; president of the Tennessee Library Association
Paul North Rice, WWI U.S. Army uniform.jpg Paul North Rice 1947–1948 U.S. Army World War I, Director of the New York University Libraries, Executive Secretary of the Association of Research Libraries
Errett Weir McDiarmid.jpg Errett Weir McDiarmid 1948–1949University Librarian of the University of Minnesota.
Milton E. Lord.jpg Milton E. Lord 1949–1950
Clarence R. Graham 1950–1951Director, Louisville Public Library, 1942-1977.
LoletaDawson1915.png Loleta Dawson Fyan 1951–1952Michigan Library Association President, 1934–1935. Michigan State Librarian, 1941–1961
Robert Bingham Downs.jpg Robert Bingham Downs [37] 1952–1953
Flora Belle Ludington.jpg Flora Belle Ludington [38] 1953–1954Chairman of the board on International Relations, 1942–1945Librarian, Mount Holyoke College, 1936–1964
Lawrence Quincy Mumford.jpg L. Quincy Mumford 1954–1955 Librarian of Congress, 1954–1974.
John S. Richards 1916.png John S. Richards 1955–1956President, Public Library Association Director, Seattle Public Library
Ralph Robert Shaw - National Agricultural Library (page 12 crop).jpg Ralph R. Shaw 1956–1957Director of U.S. National Agricultural Library, 1940–1954. Founder of Scarecrow Press.
Lucile M. Morsch 1957–1958First Chief of Descriptive Cataloging Division at Library of Congress, 1940. President, District of Columbia Library Association, 1954–1955
Emerson Greenaway.jpg Emerson Greenaway 1958–1959Chair, Intellectual Freedom CommitteeDirector, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Director, Free Library of Philadelphia
Benjamin E. Powell.jpg Benjamin E. Powell 1959–1960University Librarian, Duke University, 1946–1975.
Frances Lander Spain 1960–1961Head of Children's Services at the New York Public Library.
Florrinell F. Morton 1961–1962Director of the Library School at Louisiana State University, 1944 to 1971
James E. Bryan 1962–1963President, New Jersey Library Association, 1952–1954
Frederick H. Wagman 1963–1964
Edwin Castagna 1964–1965
Robert Vosper.jpg Robert Vosper 1965–1966Director of Libraries of University of Kansas, 1952-1961 [39]
Mary V. Gaver 1966–1967
Foster E. Mohrhardt National Agricultural Library (page 13 crop).jpg Foster E. Mohrhardt [40] 1967–1968Director of the United States National Agricultural Library, 1954–1968
Roger McDonough 1968–1969First State Librarian for New Jersey.
William S. Dix 1969–1970
Lilian Bradshaw.jpg Lillian M. Bradshaw 1970–1971
Keith Doms 1971–1972
Katherine Laich 1972–1973Librarian, University of Southern California
Jean E. Lowrie (cropped).jpg Jean E. Lowrie 1973–1974
Edward G. Holley [41] 1974–1975
Allie Beth Martin.jpg Allie Beth Martin 1975–Apr. 1976Author- A Strategy for Public Library Change. [42] Director, Tulsa City-County Library, Oklahoma.
Clara Stanton Jones.jpg Clara Stanton Jones 1976–1977She was the ALA's first African-American president, serving as its acting president from April 11 to July 22 in 1976 and then its president from July 22, 1976 to 1977. [43] Director, Detroit Public Library.
Eric Moon [44] 1977–1978
Russell Shank.jpg Russell Shank 1978–1979President, Association of College and Research Libraries Director of Libraries of the Smithsonian Institution; [45] Chief Librarian at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) [46]
Tom-Galvin.jpg Thomas J. Galvin 1979–1980Executive Director of American Library Association, 1985–1989
Peggy Sullivan.jpg Peggy A. Sullivan 1980–1981Executive Director of American Library Association, 1992–1994Library historian, [47] library educator, library administrator.
Elizabeth W. (Betty) Stone 1981–1982
Carol A. Nemeyer 1982–1983
Brooke E. Sheldon 1983–1984
E. J. Josey [48] 1984–1985
Beverly P. Lynch 1985–1986
Regina Minudri.jpg Regina Minudri 1986–1987
Margaret E. Chisholm 1987–1988
F. William Summers 1988–1989
Patricia Wilson Berger 1989–1990
Richard M. Dougherty 1990–1991 Association of College and Research Libraries Academic Librarian of the Year (1983),Joseph W. Lippincott Award Director of libraries at University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan.
Turq jacket.jpg Patricia G. Schuman 1991–1992Treasurer, 1984–1988. American Library Association Honorary Membership founder and President, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1973–2012
Marilyn L. Miller 1992–1993
Hardy R. Franklin 1993–1994
Arthur Curley crop.jpg Arthur Curley 1994–1995Deputy Director, New York Public Library Research Libraries. Deputy Director, Detroit Public Library. Director, Cuyahoga County Public Library. Director, Montclair Public Library. Director, Palatine Public Library. Director, Avon Public Library. [49]
BettyJTurockWikipedia.jpg Betty J. Turock 1995–1996 American Library Association Honorary Membership Dean and professor, Rutgers School of Communication and Information, Author, Envisioning a Nation Connected : Librarians Define the Public Interest in the Information Superhighway. [50]
Mary R. Somerville 1996–1997President of the Association for Library Service to Children Director of the Miami-Dade Public Library System
Barbara J. Ford.jpg | Barbara J. Ford 1997–1998President of the Association of College and Research Libraries Director, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003–2014.
Ann K. Symons 1998–1999Also served as treasurer, 1992–1996.
Sarah Ann Long 1999–2000
Nancy Kranich ALA (cropped).jpg Nancy C. Kranich 2000–2001Editor, Libraries & Democracy: The Cornerstones of Liberty. Chicago: American Library Association, 2001
John W. Berry 2001–2002President of the Freedom to Read Foundation; trustee, American Library in Paris
Maurice J. "Mitch" Freedman.png Maurice J. (Mitch) Freedman 2002–2003President, Library and Information Technology Association
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, 2020 Portrait Headshot (cropped).jpg Carla D. Hayden 2003–2004 Librarian of Congress (appointed 2016)
Carol A. Brey-Casiano 2004–2005
Michael Gorman 2005–2006Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century [51]
Leslie Burger TED (cropped).jpg Leslie Burger 2006–2007Established "Emerging Leaders Program" at the American Library Association. [52] Appointed interim Executive Director of the American Library Association in 2023. [53] President of the Connecticut Library Association. President of the New Jersey Library Association.
LorieneRoy (cropped).jpg Loriene Roy 2007–2008She was the ALA's first Native American president. [54] [55] Convener on Indigenous Matters for the International Federation of Library Associations, 2008-2009
Jim Rettig at the 2008 I Love My Librarian awards.jpg James R. Rettig 2008–2009
2010 Camila Alire AmericanLibraryAssociation.png Camila A. Alire 2009–2010She was the ALA's first Hispanic/Latina American president.
Roberta A. Stevens 2010–2011
Molly Raphael 2011–2012
Maureen Sullivan (cropped).jpg Maureen Sullivan 2012–2013
Barbara Stripling.jpg Barbara Stripling 2013–2014President of the Freedom to Read Foundation
Courtney Young at ALA Midwinter 2015 (cropped).jpg Courtney Young 2014–2015
Sari Feldman (cropped).jpg Sari Feldman 2015–2016
Julie Todaro 2016–2017President, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2007-2008.Dean of Library Services, Austin Community College. President, Texas Library Association, 2000-2001.
James G. Neal.jpg James G. Neal
[56] 		2017–2018Senior Policy Fellow, American Library Association to advise the Washington Office on Public Policy and Advocacy
ALA 2019 Loida Garcia-Febo (cropped).jpg Loida Garcia-Febo 2018–2019
2019-2020-ala-president-wanda-brown.jpg Wanda Kay Brown 2019–2020President, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 2006-2008.First president from a HBCU (historically black college or university). C. G. O'Kelly Library at Winston-Salem State University.
Julius Jefferson 2.jpg Julius C. Jefferson Jr. 2020–2021President of the Freedom to Read Foundation, 2013–2016.
Patty Wong in Santa Monica (cropped).jpg Patricia "Patty" Wong 2021–2022She was the ALA's first Asian American president.
Lessa Kananiʻopua Pelayo-Lozada 2022–2023ALA's first Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander American president.
Emily Drabinski headshot.jpg Emily Drabinski 2023–2024Associate Professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. [57]
Cindy Hohl.jpg Cindy Hohl 2024–2025First SPECTRUM scholar to be ALA President.President of the American Indian Library Association, 2020–2021.
Raymond Pun 2025–2026President, Chinese American Librarians Association, 2022–2023; President, Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, 2021-2022.

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