The American Library Association (ALA) announced on April 7 that Larry Neal, library director of Clinton-Macomb Public Library (CMPL) in Michigan, has been elected treasurer of ALA for 2025–2028.
Neal received 7,312 votes in the uncontested election. He will step into his role as treasurer at the close of ALA’s 2025 Annual Conference and Exhibition, to be held June 26–30 in Philadelphia.
Upon learning the outcome of the election, Neal provided the following statement:
“It is an incredible honor to serve the profession in this capacity as we prepare to celebrate ALA’s sesquicentennial. I look forward to working with the ALA staff and member leaders to resolve the Association’s financial challenges and ensure it is well positioned to serve current and future generations of librarians and library workers.”
Neal has been the director at CMPL since 2006. Prior to that, he was CMPL’s assistant director. He also worked at Rochester Hills (Mich.) Public Library as head of technology and a page, clerk, systems, and facilities manager. He served as an adjunct clinical associate professor at University of Michigan’s School of Information from 2017 to 2023.
Neal is a member of the Public Library Association (PLA) and served as PLA president (2014–2015). He is currently on the PLA Budget and Finance Committee and is an ALA Policy Corps Fellow. He is a member of the Rainbow Round Table and Intellectual Freedom Round Table. He served on the ALA Executive Board (2020–2023), ALA Council (2017–2023), ALA Budget and Review Committee, and ALA Finance and Audit Committee. He was also president of the Michigan Library Association earlier in his career.
Neal holds an MSI-LIS from University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, an MBA from Oakland (Mich.) University, and a bachelor’s in Spanish and German from Honors College at Oakland University.
