Viva
Lake Las Vegas:
Celebrating Nevada's Diversity
NEVADA
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Annual
Conference
August 11-14, 2004
Henderson, NV
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2004
Contact: Joan Vaughan
Phone: 702-492-6589
Enoch-Pratt’s Carla Hayden to Open Nevada Library
Conference
Henderson, NV—American Library Association (ALA)
President Carla Hayden will give the opening address during the 2004
Nevada Library Association (NLA)
Conference on Thursday, August 12, 2004, at the Hyatt Lake Las Vegas/
.
NLA President Felton Thomas, administrator of the West Las Vegas Library, is
excited about Hayden’s visit: “We’re very honored to have Carla
Hayden come to Nevada to speak on equity and access on behalf of all libraries
and library customers throughout the state.”
Hayden, executive director of the Enoch-Pratt Free Library in Baltimore,
was honored as one of Ms. Magazine’s Women of the Year
in 2003. Other accolades include Librarian of the Year from Library
Journal (1995), one of Maryland's
Top 100 Women from Warfield's Business Record (1996) and The Daily
Record (2003).
She is also a recipient of the Carver-Washington Award from the Baltimore Tuskegee
Alumni Association (1995), the Andrew White Medal from Loyola College (1997),
and the President's Medal from the Johns Hopkins University (1998).
Hayden’s Board memberships include the Maryland African American Museum
Corporation, Goucher College, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and
Library, the Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission, the University of Pittsburgh
School
of Information Sciences, and Washington College.
For more information about the 2004 NLA Conference, which runs August 11 – 14,
2004, please visit www.nevadalibraries.org.
