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For Immediate Release: June 3, 2004 Contact: Kathlin Smith 202-939-4754 Nancy Davenport Named President of CLIR Washington, D.C. - The Board of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to announce the appointment of Nancy Davenport as its president, effective July 5, 2004. Ms. Davenport has served for twenty-six years in the Library of Congress, where she has had very broad experience and held several leadership positions. She is currently Director of Acquisitions at the Library. Previously, she was Head of the Congressional Research Service Inquiry Section, Coordinator of Member and Committee Relations for the CRS, and Director of Special Programs. Over the years, the Library has turned to her to direct the divisions of Rare Books and Special Collections, Prints and Photographs, and the CRS while the Library searched for permanent directors. From 1990 to 1997, Nancy directed a training program for librarians in the new democratic states of Central and Eastern Europe which was sponsored by Congress and carried out by the Library of Congress. Ms. Davenport has been very active in professional library associations. She is now on the Council and Executive Board of the American Library Association and previously served as Chair of the President's Program Committee and the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws. She has chaired the Editorial Advisory Board of the Library Administration and Management Association and the Section on Acquisitions and Collections Development of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. She is the former president of the Federal Librarians Roundtable and of the Library of Congress Professional Association. CLIR Board Chairman Stanley Chodorow, in making the announcement, said: "The Board is very pleased to have Nancy Davenport as the new president of CLIR. We look forward to working with her to develop CLIR's agenda of programs and projects and to her leadership of this important organization." The Council on Library and Information Resources is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the management of information for research, teaching, and learning. CLIR works to expand access to information, however recorded and preserved, as a public good. # # #