Loriene Roy, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, has launched her campaign to be the first American Indian president of the American Library Association.

Roy is a professor of library and information science at the University of Texas School of Information. She founded If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything, a national reading club for Indian children. If elected, she hopes to draw more attention to Indian communities.

Roy attended the Oregon Institute of Technology and earned a master's in library science from the University of Arizona and her Ph.D in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Professor begins bid to be first American Indian library president (The Daily Texan 12/12)

Relevant Links:
Loriene Roy - http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~loriene
If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything - http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~ifican
American Library Association - http://www.ala.org