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Raymond Pun elected 2024-2025 ALA President Elect

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From an ALA email announcement:

“Raymond Pun, Academic and Research Librarian at the Alder Graduate School of Education in California, has been elected 2024-2025 president-elect of the American Library Association (ALA) by ALA members. He will take office as president at the end of Annual Conference 2025. 

Pun received 5,611 votes, while his opponent, Sam Helmick, Community & Access Services Coordinator at Iowa City Public Library, received 2,778 votes.

“Thank you to each and every member who voted and became part of the ALA community to make our profession and association stronger together,” Pun said. “I am truly honored for this opportunity to lead our association with you all. My deepest thanks to Sam Helmick for standing in the election with me during this critical time.”

Pun currently serves as the immediate past president of the Chinese American Librarians Association and was past president of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. Pun previously served on the ALA Council, ALA Policy Corps, and as a member of the advisory committees for two ALA past presidents. Pun is a member of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Pun is a member of the California Library Association (CLA) Advocacy and Legislation Committee, the Library Freedom Project (LFP), and other ALA affiliates, including the American Indian Library Association (AILA), the Black Caucus of ALA (BCALA), the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL), the Association for Rural and Small Libraries, and REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking. Pun is also a member of the International Relations Round Table (IRRT) and the Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT). In addition to librarianship, Pun is a member of the Committee of 100’s Next Generation Leaders program and a speaker for The Weave Speakers Bureau.

Pun holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from California State University, Fresno; a Master of Library Science from CUNY Queens College; a Master of Arts in East Asian Studies; and a Bachelor of Arts in History from St. John’s University in New York.

For more ALA election results throughout the day, check the ALA election page.”

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California Library Leadership Program applications open on July 9

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Golden Libraries received information today on the second cohort of Catalyst, the library leadership program in California. Applications open on July 8. For more information, see below.

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Dear California Library Community,

Applications for the second year of Catalyst, California’s statewide library leadership program, will open on Monday, July 8 at 9:00 AM. Catalyst is designed to equip and support California library workers with development opportunities that allow them to lead from anywhere.


If you are currently working in a California library, we invite you to apply for the 2024-2025 Catalyst cohort. Whether you are already in a leadership position, a front-line library worker, or someone who works behind-the-scenes, this program is open to you. Leadership potential exists in individuals from all roles within the library, and an MLIS degree is not required. We encourage you to consider applying or recommending potential candidates who have an interest in leadership, regardless of their current role. The goal is to create a strong learning cohort of 25 individuals, bringing together library workers with diverse perspectives, strengths, roles, locations, and lived experiences.

The program is projected to last for a total of 18 months. During the first 12 months, participants will be part of a cohort that meets both online and in-person to learn, reflect, and work on projects that apply their new skills and ideas. After the first year (and grant funds permitting), the cohort will continue to meet on a monthly basis for an additional six months to deepen their learning, network, and reflect on their experiences.

Catalyst participants will be required to attend two in-person sessions: Tuesday, Nov. 12– Friday, Nov. 15, 2024 at the Asilomar conference center near Monterey and Monday-Wednesday, March 3-5, 2025 in Southern California. Travel costs for these in-person events will be covered by the project.

Two Information Sessions will be held via Zoom for those interested in learning more about the Catalyst leadership development opportunity. Click the links below to register for a session.

Thursday, July 11 at 12:00 PM
Tuesday, July 16 at 11:00 AM

Office Hours will also be available July 8 to August 7 for those interested to ask questions and receive one-on-one application support from a friendly Catalyst team member.
Sign up for office hours

The Catalyst application will be available on the CALL website on Monday, July 8, 2024. Applications will be due by Wednesday, August 7 at 11:59 PM.

This program is brought at no cost to you by California Libraries Learn (CALL), which is a joint project of the California Library Association and California State Library.

For more information, please contact Maddy Walton-Hadlock at mwaltonhadlock@cla-net.org or Akiliah Manuel at amanuel@cla-net.org

Warm Regards,

The Catalyst Team

Madeline Walton-Hadlock (she/her)
Catalyst Leadership Development Team
An initiative of California Libraries Learn (CALL)
mwaltonhadlock@cla-net.org

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Dr. Ray Pun, ALA’s President-Elect, will step away from the presidency

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From the American Library Association in an email:

ALA’s next President-Elect, Dr. Raymond Pun, will not assume the role for health reasons. He was to take office after ALA Annual Conference adjourns, and he would have been president in 2025-26. 

The 2024-25 Executive Board will fill the vacancy within 30 days, subject to a confirmation vote by ALA’s Council. The process to fill the vacant position of president-elect is spelled out in the ALA Bylaws, Article IV. Officers. Section 3. 

A majority of members voted for Pun in the spring election, with the results announced on April 8. He is an academic and research librarian at the Alder Graduate School of Education in California. 

“We are devastated that Ray will be unable to serve as ALA’s member-elected president in 2025-26,” ALA President Emily Drabinski said. “The most important thing right now is that he takes care of himself and that we respect his privacy. We are grateful for his service to ALA and the entire profession.” 

Drabinski has convened a working group, which includes incoming and outgoing board members, to select and vet candidates for recommendation to the 2024-25 ALA Executive Board. Once a candidate is selected, the decision will go before the 2024-2025 ALA Council for final approval this July.

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California Library Calendar (June 2024 – Beyond)

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California Library & Reading Calendar was updated on May 28, 2024. If you have an event occurring in California or that might be of interest to California librarians and reading teachers, please send information to info(at)GoldenLibraries.com.

June 2024

DateEventLocationSponsor
6/2024Rainbow Book MonthLocal LibrariesAmerican Library Association
(Join ALA Here)
6/3/2024Reading League California Board of Directors Annual Meeting
Virtual
Reading League California
(Join TRLC Here)
6/4/2024Bookelicious Middle Grade Book Club: Jennifer LaGarde, Lisa Fipps (“And Then Boom“)

Webinar

Bookelicious
Register Here
6/12/2024AASL Virtual Membership Meeting
Sign Up Here
AASL
(Join AASL Here)
6/27 – 7/2/2024ALA Annual ConferenceSan Diego, CAAmerican Library Association

DateEventLocationSponsor
7/25/2024SLJ Picture Book PaloozaVirtualSchool Library Journal
(Subscribe Here)

September 2024

DateEventLocationSponsor
9/2024Library Card Sign-Up MonthLocal LibrariesALA
9/22 – 9/28Banned Books WeekLocal Districts/LibrariesALA

October 2024

DateEventLocationSponsor
10/2024TeenToberLocal Districts/LibrariesALA
10/4 – 10/5/2024California Reading Association Conference
Virtual

CRA
(Join CRA Here)
10/17 – 10/19/2024California Library Association ConferencePasadena, CACLA
10/20 – 10/26National Friends of Libraries WeekLocal LibrariesALA

January 2025

DateEventLocationSponsor
1/30 – 2/2/2025 CSLA ConferenceSan Jose, CACSLA
1/24 – 1/27/2025LibLearnX: The Library Learning ExperiencePhoenix, AZALA

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