From the Baltimore Sun:
Carla D. Hayden, director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, has just vaulted into national prominence as the president-elect of the 63,000-member American Library Association. But in Baltimore, she has found a rockier road to acceptance.
Election to the influential post means that Hayden will be regularly testifying before the nation\’s lawmakers, shaping policy on library matters such as Internet access and copyright law.
Yet her nine years here have produced a rare thing: polarized library politics. There is little neutral ground between those who think Hayden is a brilliant visionary and those who say she is dismantling the city\’s system of neighborhood libraries . . .
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