Carla Hayden
| Carla Hayden | |
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| 14th Librarian of Congress | |
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Assumed office September 14, 2016 |
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Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | David Mao (Acting) |
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August 10, 1952 Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. |
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Roosevelt University (BA) University of Chicago (MA, PhD) |
 Meet President Obama's Nominee for Librarian of Congress, (3:46), The White House
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Librarian of Congress Nominee Carla Hayden Confirmation Hearing, (1:01:03), C-SPAN
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Carla Diane Hayden (born August 10, 1952) is an American librarian and the 14th Librarian of Congress. Even though more than eighty percent of American librarians are women, for over two hundred years the position of Librarian of Congress was filled exclusively by white men. Hayden is the first woman and the first African-American to hold the post.Fortune magazine ranked Hayden among the World's 50 greatest leaders in 2016.
From 1993 until August 11, 2016, she was the CEO of Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland, and president of the American Library Association (ALA) from 2003 to 2004. During her presidency, she was the leading voice of the ALA in speaking out against the newly passed United States Patriot Act.
Hayden was born in Tallahassee, Florida. Her passion for reading was inspired by Bright April, a book about a young African American girl in the Brownies written by Marguerite De Angeli. At Chicago's South Shore High School, Hayden became interested in books on British history and “cozy mysteries”. While she loved libraries she didn’t consider it as a career until after she had graduated from Roosevelt University and received her master's and doctorate degrees in Library Science from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. From 1970 and 1980, Hayden worked in several positions in the Museum of Science and Industry and the Chicago Public Library. Around this time, she encountered Michelle and Barack Obama. Hayden served as library services coordinator for Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry from 1982 to 1987. She taught as an Assistant Professor of Library Science at the University of Pittsburgh before returning to Chicago to begin her professional career as a children's librarian at Chicago Public Library. She was appointed second-in-command at Chicago Public Library in 1991.
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