Barbara K. Stripling, assistant professor of practice in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, is now the leader of world's largest and oldest association for library professionals. Membership in the organization numbers more than 60,000.
Courtney Louise Young, head librarian at the Allegheny campus of Pennsylvania State University, 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.