Andy Ackerman is the Chair of the Fort St John Library Board and Vice President of the BCLTA. He is also vice-chair of the new North East Library Federation. Andy is a a trainer for BCLTA, having put on a number of Trustee Orientation Program workshops during the past year. Andy is a strong advocate for libraries and co-chaired the group that developed the North Peace Community Literacy Plan. Andy retired from the BC Ministry of Environment at the end of June, 2007 and is president of his own consulting company, Myriad Consulting Inc. |
Loring Bohach is a project manager in the securities exchange industry. Loring is the immediate past-president of Friends of the Vancouver Public Library, who were recognized by the BCLTA in 2007 for their contribution to advocacy on behalf of the Vancouver library system. As a lifelong user of school and public library services, Loring has developed a deep appreciation of the contributions that libraries make to our society, and for the many roles that make up a successful library system - including library trustees. Loring is currently a Vice-chair of the Vancouver Public Library Board of Trustees. |
Colleen Chambers is currently a Senior Analyst in Corporate Finance with the TSX Venture Exchange in Vancouver. Ms. Chambers holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Lakehead University and is a graduate of BCIT in Administrative Management. Previous board positions include Director on the Board of the North Fraser Port Authority, Member of the Property Assessment Review Panel, Director of BC Police Victim Services Board, Board Chair and Trustee for the Richmond Public Library Board for eight years and Treasurer and President of BC Library Trustees' Association. |
Donald Hamilton has had a long career as teacher, librarian and educator in British Columbia. He retired in 2000 from the University of Victoria where he had served as Education Librarian for 29 years with responsibilities for preparing teacher-librarians.
He is currently in his 8th year as a citizen Trustee for Victoria on the Greater Victoria Public Library Board.
Donald has been a Director on the BCLTA Executive and served on the Canadian Library Trustees Association executive. In 2008 he received a Super Trustee award from BCLTA for service on the Greater Victoria Library Board.
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Philip Mantler is the chair of the Prince George Public Library Board. Prior to joining the library board, Phil has served on the boards of a number of organizations, including the BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils. Professionally, he has been an accountant in industry and public practice for over 20 years and is currently employed as an auditor for the Canada Revenue Agency. |
Roberta represents Regional District of the East Kootenay, Area C, on the Cranbrook Public Library Board. After attending the "Off the Shelf" conference in Richmond in 2008 Roberta decided that being a TOP trainer was one way of keeping the information she learned up to date and that passing that information along to others was of interest to her.
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Lois has been a trustee on the North Vancouver
City Board since January
2005, and this experience has proved to be both inspiring and
informative. An adult educator for the past 20 years, Lois has designed
and delivered education and training programs for a wide range of adults
from every walk of life. Lois also has extensive experience working with
government, industry and corporate clients in the management and
delivery of career transition and labour market integration initiatives.
As well, Lois delivers training in curriculum design, effective
instruction, adult learning theories, and evaluation of learning and
instruction in the BC Provincial Instructor Diploma Program. She is
looking forward to conducting TOP sessions on behalf of the BCLTA. |
