Loida Garcia-Febo


Loida Garcia-Febo is a Puerto Rican American librarian and library consultant. Garcia-Febo serves on the Governing Board of the International Federation of Library Associations 2013-2015 and 2015-2017 and she is a member of the Executive Board of the American Library Association. She was President of the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking from 2009-2010. Garcia-Febo is the President of Information New Wave, an international charity seeking to enhance the education of minority groups in the USA and in developing countries. She was a candidate in the 2017 election for President of the American Library Association. In April 2017, she was elected president-elect of the American Library Association 2018–2019.

Career

Garcia-Febo has served as an elementary school librarian in Puerto Rico, librarian at the Centro de Informacion of the Unidad de Servicios Bibliotecarios para Personas con Impedimentos de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, , Chief of the SBPI, and Manager at Queens Library.
Garcia-Febo was a co-founder of the IFLA New Professionals SIG, an international forum for library and information services students and newly qualified librarians.
Garcia-Febo has served on the Access to Learning Award Advisory Board for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Global Libraries, the Library 2.0 Advisory Board from the San Jose State University School of Information, Library Advisory Board of Praeger an imprint of ABC-Clio, and the Public Libraries Advisory Committee and has been associated with REFORMA serving on the board from 2008–11, including a term as president from 2009-10.
Garcia-Febo represented the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions as a speaker at the United Nations Development Programme Meeting on Data Accountability for the Post-2015 Development Agenda in New York.
Garcia-Febo is president of the American Library Association 2018–2019.

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