The American Library Association (ALA) announced on March 7 a change to the slate of candidates for 2026–2027 ALA president on the 2025 ALA election ballot.
The full statement reads as follows:
Andrea Jamison, assistant professor of school librarianship at Illinois State University in Normal, has withdrawn her candidacy for ALA president-elect and Intellectual Freedom Round Table director-at-large. Her name will be removed from the election ballot, which will be sent to ALA members on Monday, March 10.
Two candidates remain in the race: Lindsay Cronk, dean of libraries at Tulane University in New Orleans, and Maria McCauley, director of libraries at Cambridge (Mass.) Public Library.
Lindsay Cronk currently serves as a member of Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures. She is a member of the Core Five-Year Fundraising Team and served as 2021–22 president of Core. She led the Core Communications Working Group and has also served on ALA Council, co-authoring ALA’s Resolution to Condemn White Supremacy and Fascism as Antithetical to Library Work. Before that, she served on the board of the Library Information Technology Association and edited its popular LITA Blog. She is the first woman to serve as dean of libraries at Tulane University. Cronk is 2024–2025 vice chair of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Advocacy and Public Policy Committee.
Cronk also serves on the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries board, Clarivate North American advisory group, and editorial board of The Serials Librarian journal. She is cocreator and founder of PeMento: Peer Mentoring for Mid-Career Library Workers.
Maria McCauley, who was a Spectrum Scholar, is a current member of Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures; the Public Library Association (PLA); and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). She is also a member of the Rainbow Round Table, Sustainability Round Table, Intellectual Freedom Round Table, and the International Relations Round Table. She is also a member of the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, Chinese American Librarians Association, Black Caucus of ALA, Reforma: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking, the American Indian Library Association, the Freedom to Read Foundation, the Massachusetts Library Association, and the New England Library Association.
McCauley has held several leadership positions, including at-large councilor of ALA Council, ALA Executive Board member, and member of ALA’s Fiscal and Audit Committee. She the 2022–23 PLA president and a PLA board member.
Ballot mailing for the ALA election will run through April 2, 2025. Individuals must be members in good standing to vote in the 2025 ALA election. Renew your membership online or by calling 800-545-2433 (choose option 1).
To learn more about the candidates, please visit the ALA Election webpage.
