ABA Announces 2007 Board Election Results

The results of the American Booksellers Association's 2007 Board of Directors elections have been certified by the association's auditors, Marks Paneth & Shron LLP. Candidates chosen by ABA's bookstore members to serve as directors, with terms ending in 2010, are Steve Bercu of BookPeople in Austin, Texas; Tom Campbell of The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, North Carolina; and Cathy Langer of Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver. Langer, who currently serves on the Board, was elected for a second three-year term.

ABA membership also ratified the Board's choice of Russ Lawrence of Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, Montana, for a second one-year term as ABA president, and Gayle Shanks of Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona, for a second one-year term as vice president/secretary.

Ending their terms on the Board are Carla Jimenez of Inkwood Books in Tampa, Florida, and Linda Ramsdell of The Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick, Vermont.

Other directors on the nine-member Board are Becky Anderson of Anderson's Bookshops in Naperville, Illinois; Collette Morgan of Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis; Beth Puffer of Bank Street Bookstore in New York City; and Michael Tucker of Books Inc. in San Francisco.

The Board transition will take place at ABA meetings to be held in conjunction with BookExpo America.