Updated Board Member roles and responsibilities were approved by the Board on April 14, 2014.
2023-2024 BCLA Board of Directors
President
Tracey Therrien
Pronouns: she/her
Nelson Public Library
Incoming President
Suzanne Rackover
Pronouns: she/her
Langara College
Treasurer
Sarah Felkar
Pronouns: she/her
West Vancouver Memorial Library
Incoming Treasurer /Treasurer-Elect
Sajni Lacey
Pronouns: she/her
UBC Okanagan Library
Director (1st year of 2-year term)
Ignacio Albarracin
Pronouns: he/him
College of New Caledonia
Director (1st year of 2-year term)
Saara Itkonen
Pronouns: she/her
Creston Valley Public Library
Director (1st year of 2-year term)
Aditi Gupta
Pronouns: she/her
University of Victoria Libraries
Director (2nd year of 2-year term)
Shideh Taleban
Pronouns: she/her
North Vancouver City Library
Director (1 year Presidential appointment)
Jorge Cárdenas
Pronouns: he/him
Belzberg Library, SFU Vancouver
BCALS Chair
David Gill
Pronouns: he/him
Vancouver Island University
YAACS Chair
Emily Gow
Pronouns: she/her
Vancouver Public Library
Recording Secretary (ex officio, non-voting)
Rina Hadziev
Pronouns: she/her
BCLA Executive Director
Past BCLA Presidents
- 2021-2022; 2022-2023 Todd Mundle
- 2019-2021 Chris Middlemass
- 2018-2019 Shirley Lew
- 2017-2018 Anne Olsen
- 2016-2017 Daphne Wood
- 2015-2016 Caroline Daniels
- 2014-2015 Heather Buzzell
- 2013-2014 Gwen Bird
- 2012-2013 June Stockdale
- 2011-2012 Christopher Kevlahan
- 2010-2011 Marjorie Mitchell
- 2009-2010 Kenneth Cooley
- 2008-2009 Lynne Jordon
- 2007-2008 Deb Thomas
- 2006-2007 Inba Kehoe
- 2005-2006 Melanie Houlden
- 2004-2005 Diana Guinn
- 2003-2004 Alison Nussbaumer
- 2002-2003 Carol Elder
- 2001-2002 Carol Elder
- 2000-2001 Julie Spurrell
- 1999-2000 Sybil Harrison
- 1998-1999 Greg Buss
- 1997-1998 Frieda Wiebe
- 1996-1997 Ron Clancy
- 1995-1996 Nancy Levesque
- 1994-1995 Leonora Crema
- 1993-1994 Gordon Ray
- 1992-1993 Sylvia Crooks
- 1991-1992 Nancy Hannum
- 1990-1991 Paul Whitney
- 1989-1990 Paula Pick
- 1988-1989 Brian Owen
- 1987-1988 Linda Kabush
- 1986-1987 Linda Hale
- 1985-1986 Jack Mounce
- 1984-1985 Garth Homer/Margaret Friesen
- 1983-1984 Margaret Friesen
- 1982-1983 Harry Newsom
- 1981-1982 Maureen Willison
- 1980-1981 Mary Beth MacDonald
- 1979-1980 James C. Scott
- 1978-1979 Ron Willey
- 1977-1978 Fred White
- 1976-1977 William Watson
- 1975-1976 John Backhouse
- 1974-1975 Donald W. Miller
- 1973-1974 Margaret Burke
- 1972-1973 Delburt Affleck
- 1971-1972 Robert Harris
- 1970-1971 Sheila MacDonald
- 1969-1970 Joy Scudamore
- 1968-1969 Anna Leith
- 1967-1968 Aileen Tufts
- 1966-1967 Enid Dearing
- 1965-1966 Dean W. Halliwell
- 1964-1965 Lois Bewley
- 1963-1964 Theodora Rhodes
- 1962-1963 Doreen Fraser
- 1961-1962 Jack C. R. Lort
- 1960-1961 Dorothy E. Salisbury
- 1959-1960 Samuel Rothstein
- 1958-1959 Peter Grossman
- 1957-1958 Robert L. Davison
- 1956-1957 Muriel Laing
- 1955-1956 Margaret Brunette
- 1954-1955 Anne B. Berry
- 1953-1954 Ronald Ley
- 1952-1953 Thressa A. Pollock
- 1951-1952 Marjorie B. Sing
- 1950-1951 Eleanor B. Mercer