[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 26, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H5171]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONGRATULATING WANDA KAY BROWN, AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

  The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from North Carolina 
(Ms. Foxx) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. FOXX of North Carolina. Madam Speaker, I rise to congratulate 
Wanda K. Brown on her inauguration as president of the American Library 
Association, the oldest and largest library association in the world.
  Ms. Brown has an exemplary record as the director of library services 
at Winston-Salem State University's C.G. O'Kelly Library in North 
Carolina's Fifth Congressional District. She also served as associate 
dean of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University.
  During her tenure as president of the North Carolina Library 
Association, Ms. Brown received many national awards recognizing her 
leadership in numerous library organizations, including the Black 
Caucus of the American Library Association. Ms. Brown's presidency of 
the American Library Association is the culmination of an extraordinary 
career in librarianship.
  I wish Ms. Brown the best in her new endeavors to expand valuable 
library services in America and around the world, and I know that the 
ALA is in great hands.

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