Don Chatham, Associate Executive Director for ALA Publishing, has announced that Laurie D. Borman will be the new Editor and Publisher of American Libraries publications, effective December 5, 2011.
Borman has a journalism degree from Indiana University and more than 20 years’ experience in magazine and digital publishing. Borman comes to American Libraries from Spertus Institute, where she was editor and writer for print and digital media and helped to promote its Asher Library. Her management experience also includes serving as editorial director at Rand McNally, where she was responsible for integrating print with website and other e-content, overseeing editorial strategy and developments, and initiating Rand McNally’s social media program.
American Libraries looks forward to welcoming Borman to lead and enhance the many initiatives underway, as well as continuing AL’s more than 100-year tradition of keeping library and information science and technology workers in touch with the profession’s most current concerns—in print and (increasingly) online.