Telephone:
412-561-7876
Electronic
Mail: < gawalsh@andrewcarnegie.cc
>
Internet
Web Site: < http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc
>
2007
June 1
Cynthia K. Richey,
Library Director
Dear Ms. Richey:
While attending the May 21meeting
of the Board of Directors of the Allegheny County Library Association (ACLA), I
learned that there is a vacancy in the Director position, serving the South
ACLA Region, on the Board of Directors of the Allegheny County Library
Association. With this letter, I hereby request consideration for my election,
by the library directors of the South ACLA Region, as the Director to represent
the South libraries on the ACLA Board.
Please note that I reside
within the South ACLA Region, having lived at
As you may be aware, I have
many years of experience with public libraries in Allegheny County, as well as
having attended many meetings of both the ACLA Board and the Board of
:Directors of the :Allegheny Regional Asset District, over more than a decade.
I served as a Life Trustee,
on the Board of Trustees, of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall
from 1995 to 2000. This included serving in the position of Library Treasurer
from 1995 to 1996. I also was the delegate from the Andrew Carnegie Free
Library to ACLA from 1995 to 1999.
Starting as the Library Historian for the Andrew
Carnegie Free Library, since leaving the Library Board I am now a noted
authority on the life and philanthropies of Andrew Carnegie. I was the
Consulting Editor for the April, 1999 issue of Cobblestone Magazine, the
theme of which was the life and philanthropies of Andrew Carnegie. I also participated
in a three-person panel for the Carnegie Libraries:
Challenges and Solutions educational session at the 2006 National Preservation
Conference in
I have read the web page
titled, “Board Member Job Description,” on the ACLA web site, and I find these
duties acceptable. I certainly would work to maintain good communications with
all of the libraries within the South Region.
You can read a fairly
comprehensive biography of me, and the many activities I have been involved
with, at the following link which is posted on my web sites:
< http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/#GAW
>
(Hold
down the “Control” button, while clicking on this link, to reach my bio.).
I hope you, and other
representatives from the ACLA South Region, will feel free to contact me with
other questions and comments, regarding this application, at Telephone:
412-561-7876 or E-Mail: < gawalsh@andrewcarnegie.cc
>.
I look forward to the
opportunity to work with you and other South Region representatives, to ensure
the South Region is well represented on the ACLA Board.
Sincerely yours,
Glenn A. Walsh
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