Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Carla Hayden
Carla Hayden
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| Other authors / contributors: | Hayden, Carla Diane, 1952- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2010 July 16.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Librarian Carla Hayden was born on August 10, 1952. She received her B.A. degree from Roosevelt University and worked as a library assistant in the Chicago Public Library in 1973. She later received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago's Graduate Library School and worked as library service coordinator for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. She was chief librarian for the Chicago Public Library System. She was the second African American to become executive director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Hayden was elected president of the American Library Association in 2003 where she opposed sections of the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, declassifying some of its invasive provisions. She was nominated as fourteenth Librarian of Congress by President Barack Obama and assumed office in September 2016. She was the first woman and first African American to the position of Librarian of Congress.
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