ALP Summit

Dr. Julie Todaro’s professional career includes academic library manager; library educator (management, public libraries,) and public librarian as well as extensive work with school libraries.  She was the 2016-2017 President of the American Library Association, the 2007-2008 President of the Association of College and Research Libraries and the 2000-2001 President of the Texas Library Association.  In her other association work she was on numerous ALA presidential initiative committees and is the author of the 2006 ACRL “The Power of Personal Persuasion” designed to support library managers and librarians in their work and legislative initiatives.  She is a retired community college dean (2022) and is the author of several monographs on mentoring, emergency preparedness and the 2022 The Post Pandemic Library Handbook, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.  Her 2nd edition of Bloomsbury’s Library Management for the Digital Age will be available Fall of 2025.