2024 TLN Board Election Results

As announced at yesterday's TLN Board meeting, this year's TLN Board election results are in.

The following individuals have been elected by majority vote of the TLN library directors:

Class IV libraries - Ebony Duff was re-elected to a three-year term.

Class VI Libraries - Victor Cardenas was re-elected to a three-year term.

Class VI Libraries - Kathie Brown was elected to the Board for a three-year term.

Mark Wollenweber will be leaving the TLN Board. He is thanked for 18 years of service on the Board and for his leadership as Board Chair. The Board has formed a nomination committee and will make recommendations for officer elections which the Board will vote on in October, as per their Bylaws.

Board incumbents Duff and Cardenas received reappointments while Brown will serve as a new Trustee beginning October 1, 2024. Brown worked as a Library/IT Professional for 45 years and has a well-rounded, working knowledge of library interactions with patrons, staff and Library Board Trustees. She began as a Circulation Clerk at West Bloomfield Library and then Branch Head at Westacres. She was the Director at Brandon Township Library and Franklin Public Library. She worked at WOLF/TLN as the Library Automation Specialist/Software Support and Trainer and then at Providence Hospital Helen L. DeRoy Medical Library as the Library Information Systems Technician. She finished her library journey at Farmington Community Library where she was the Coordinator of Automation and Volunteers for twenty years.

Brown has previously served as the Polaris Users Group Enhancement Coordinator and Innovative Users Group Board Member and Enhancement Process Coordinator. She is affiliated with MLA, ALA and United for Libraries. She currently serves as a Farmington Community Library Board Trustee, and Treasurer, a Commissioner on the Farmington Hills Beautification Commission, the Staman Acres Civic Association COHA Representative, the Staman Acres Civic Association Treasurer, and an Election Inspector. She takes pride in all her civic activities. Kathie is retired and spends many wonderful hours with her grandchildren, great grandchildren and working in her gardens. She resides in Farmington Hills.

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