Africana Librarians Council
Past and Current Chairpersons
| Term | ALC Chairperson | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-2013 | Esmeralda Kale | Northwestern University |
| 2011-2012 | Timothy Johnson | New York University |
| 2010-2011 | Emilie Ngo-Nguidjol Songolo | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2009-2010 | Deborah LaFond | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| 2008-2009 | Mattye Laverne Page | Library of Congress |
| 2007-2008 | Miki Goral | UCLA |
| 2006-2007 | Peter Limb | Michigan State University |
| 2005-2006 | Lauris Olson | University of Pennsylvania |
| 2004-2005 | Marieta Harper | Library of Congress |
| 2003-2004 | Gretchen S. Walsh | Boston University |
| 2002-2003 | Alfred Kagan | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 2001-2002 | Gregory A. Finnegan | Harvard University |
| 2000-2001 | Jill Young Coelho | Harvard University |
| 1999-2000 | Ruby Bell-Gam | UCLA |
| 1998-1999 | Joanne Zellers | Library of Congress |
| 1997-1998 | David L. Easterbrook | Northwestern University |
| 1996-1997 | Joseph Caruso | Columbia University |
| 1995-1996 | Helene Baumann | Duke University |
| 1994-1995 | Gregory A. Finnegan | Dartmouth College / Harvard University |
| 1993-1994 | Alfred Kagan | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 1992-1993 | Nancy J. Schmidt | Indiana University |
| 1991-1992 | Onuma Ezera | Michigan State University |
| 1990-1991 | Peter Malanchuk | University of Florida |
| 1989-1990 | Phyllis B. Bischof | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1988-1989 | John Bruce Howell | University of Iowa |
| 1987-1988 | Mary Alice Kraehe | University of Virginia |
| 1986-1987 | Gregory A. Finnegan | Dartmouth College |
| 1985-1986 | Doris M. Hull | Howard University |
| 1984-1985 | Joseph J. Lauer | Michigan State University |
| 1983-1984 | Gretchen S. Walsh | Boston University |
| 1982-1983 | Maidel K. Cason | Northwestern University |
| 1981-1982 | Leon P. Spencer | Talladega College |
| 1980-1981 | Daniel A. Britz | Northwestern University |
| 1979-1980 | Elizabeth A. Widenmann | Columbia University |
| 1978-1979 | David L. Easterbrook | Syracuse University |
| 1977-1978 | Yvette H. Scheven | University of Illinois |
| 1975-1977 | Corinne E. Nyquist | SUNY College at New Paltz |
| 1971-1974 | R. Gordon Collier | Center for Research Libraries |
| 1968-1970 | Hans E. Panofsky | Northwestern University |
| 1968 | Conrad C. Reining | Catholic University of America |
| 1966-1967 | Alan R. Taylor | Indiana University |
| 1965 | Daniel F. McCall | Boston University |
| 1964 | Robert D. Baum | U.S. Department of State |
| 1963-1964 | William A. Hance | Columbia University |
| 1962-1963 | Peter J. Duignan | Hoover Institution |
| 1959-1961 | Robert D. Baum | U.S. Department of State |
| 1957-1958 | D. Vernon McKay | Johns Hopkins University |
Compiled from:
- Recent ALC Business Meeting minutes.
- "The Africana Librarians Council and the Cooperative Africana Microform Project since 1989" / Gregory Finnegan, in: Africanist librarianship in an era of change / edited by Victoria K. Evalds and David Henige. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2005, pages 31-47.
- "The Archives-Libraries Committee and the Cooperative Africana Microform Project: a brief history" / David L. Easterbrook, in: Africana resources and collections: three decades of development and achievement, a festschrift in honor of Hans Panofsky / edited by Julian W. Witherell. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1989, pages 18-38.





