Jonathan Lu selected as GLA Sponsored ALA Emerging Leader

Congratulations to Jonathan Lu, who was selected as this year's GLA sponsored ALA Emerging Leader.

Jon is presently the Adult Services Librarian in the Cartersville Library of the Bartow County Library System. In his present position, he offers reference assistance, plans programming, and maintains the library's MySpace page. He also provides leadership in the areas of interlibrary loan and lab management at his branch.

He was selected for his enthusiasm in serving patrons, his contributions to committee service, and his documented creativity and hard work.

Jon completed his MLIS at the University of Pittsburgh in 2005.

The American Library Association's Emerging Leaders Program was begun in 2007 by then president Leslie Burger. The program "is a leadership development program which enables newer library workers from across the country to participate in problem-solving work groups, network with peers, gain an inside look into ALA structure, and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity. It puts participants on the fast track to ALA committee volunteerism as well as other professional library-related organizations"

Kristin Stout GLA's 2010 ALA Emerging Leader

Kristin Stout has been selected as the GLA sponsored participant in the 2010 group of ALA Emerging Leaders. Kristin will receive funding from GLA to attend the ALA midwinter and annual conferences next year, where she will receive leadership training and work on collaborative leadership projects with the American Library Association and its state chapters.

Kristin is a Reference & Instruction Librarian and Instructor of Library Science at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah. She's held her current position, her first since receiving her MLS, since January 2008.

You can read more about Kristin here, and read more about ALA's Emerging Leaders program here.