Dear Brothers,
Congratulations to Bro. Andrew Kosmowski
Bro. Andrew Kosmowski, director of library services at NACMS, has been named vice-president/treasurer of the Catholic Library Association (CLA). This is ultimately a six-year commitment, as the first two years are vice president/treasurer, the next two are president, and the final two are past president. He also serves as chair of CLA's finance committee and of the academic libraries, archives, and library education (ALALE) section.
Bro. Andrew has been an active member of CLA. He first attended the Saint Louis Chapter's conference in 2014. Since then, he has attended occasional Greater Cincinnati Chapter conferences as well as the CLA conferences since 2017, when he became vice-chair of the ALALE section. Since 2019, he has served as chair of that same section. As part of his major responsibilities of the ALALE section, he has prepared nominations and presented recipients of the Saint Jerome Award, named after the patron saint of libraries, and awarded in recognition of outstanding contribution and commitment to excellence in scholarship, which embodies the ideals of the Catholic Library Association. He has also presented "Religious Orders and Their Libraries: Pursuing the Mission of the Church" with a library school classmate at CLA's October 2020 conference as a result of his cataloging work with the NACMS library.
Bro. Andrew, on behalf of the province, thank you for your commitment to this important work for the Church.