AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Samantha Oakley serves as the Deputy Director and Project Director at the American Library Association since February 2015, overseeing a project portfolio exceeding $23 million in grants and leading the Libraries Transforming Communities initiative with over 1,200 library grantees. Previously, Samantha held various roles including Program Manager, where key responsibilities involved research, partnership development, program proposal creation, and evaluation implementation. Prior experience includes positions at Randstad, focusing on technical writing and project coordination. Samantha holds a Master of Library & Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master of Arts from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and a Bachelor of Arts from Western Illinois University.
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AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
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Donate | Assistance | Trustees | Staff | Dr. LeRoy C. Merritt | Articles | Videos | Brochure | ReportsThe LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund was established in 1970 as a special trust in memory of Dr. LeRoy C. Merritt. It is devoted to the support, maintenance, medical care, and welfare of librarians who, in the Trustees' opinion, are: Denied employment rights or discriminated against on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, age, disability, or place of national origin; Denied employment rights because of defense of intellectual freedom; that is, threatened with loss of employment or discharged because of their stand for the cause of intellectual freedom, including promotion of freedom of the press, freedom of speech, the freedom of librarians to select items for their collections from all the world’s written and recorded information, and defense of privacy rights.