The Cornucopia of Rhode Island is proud to endorse Kelvin Watson for the office of ALA President. Kelvin is the executive director of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, where he oversees 25 branches run by 600+ employees, spanning 8,000 square miles, with a budget of $77 million and a collection of 3.2 million items. Kelvin is an innovative library leader. Prior to leading the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, he served as the director of the Broward County Libraries Division which under his leadership was named the 2020 Library of the Year by the Florida Library Association. Kelvin was also named the 2019 Librarian of the Year by the Florida Library Association and the American Library Association (ALA) named the Broward County Libraries the Library of the Future.
Kelvin co-chairs the Joint Digital Content Working Group and is on the ALA Business Advisory Group. He has served on the Committee on Accreditation (2016–2017) and on an ALA Presidential Task Force. He was the Public Library Association’s director-at-large (2018–2021) and holds membership in EMIERT and BCALA, for which he served as president (2014–2016), executive board member (2006–2018), fundraising chair (2008–2010), and budget and finance chair (2010–2012).
Kelvin is the first ALA presidential candidate to receive both the American Library Association Spectrum & Association of Research Libraries Diversity scholarship awards.
The members of the Cornucopia of Rhode Island sincerely believe in Kelvin’s leadership to realize the full potential of all library communities.
About the Cornucopia of Rhode Island
The mission of Cornucopia of Rhode Island is to serve the library community of color. Our objectives are to promote library services to people of color within Rhode Island and the development of librarians and library staff of color.
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