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2023-2024 BCLA Board of Directors

Tracey Therrien Headshot

President (2023-2025)

Tracey Therrien
Pronouns: she/her
Nelson Public Library

Suzanne Rackover headshot

Incoming President

Suzanne Rackover
Pronouns: she/her
Langara College

Sarah Felkar headshot

Treasurer

Sarah Felkar
Pronouns: she/her
West Vancouver Memorial Library

Sajni Lacey Headshot

Incoming Treasurer /Treasurer-Elect

Sajni Lacey
Pronouns: she/her
UBC Okanagan Library

Jorge Cardenas Headshot

Director (1st year of 2-year term)

Ignacio Albarracin
Pronouns: he/him
College of New Caledonia

Alyssa Green Headshot

Director (1st year of 2-year term)

Saara Itkonen
Pronouns: she/her
Creston Valley Public Library

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Director (1st year of 1-year term)

Aditi Gupta
Pronouns: she/her
University of Victoria Libraries

Shideh Taleban Headshot

Director (2nd year of 2-year term)

Shideh Taleban
Pronouns: she/her
North Vancouver City Library

Jorge Cardenas Headshot

Director (1 year Presidential appointment)

Jorge Cárdenas
Pronouns: he/him
Belzberg Library, SFU Vancouver

 

David Gill Headshot

BCALS Chair

David Gill
Pronouns: he/him
Vancouver Island University

 

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YAACS Chair

Emily Gow
Pronouns: she/her
Vancouver Public Library

Rina Hadziev Headshot

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