RUSA is proud to sponsor Margaret Breen, who is a member of the 2025 Class of Emerging Leaders.
Margaret Breen is a public librarian at the Hopkins Branch of the Hennepin County Library. She specializes in adult services, with a focus on community outreach and programming. Margaret started with the Hennepin County Library in 2023, after completing her MLIS degree from US Madison iSchool. Margaret is passionate about trying innovative services that meet community interests and needs. As a new librarian, she brings fresh energy and ideas to the library and is excited about the variety of work that comes with being a public librarian. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to further develop her leadership skills in the ALA Emerging Leaders program and is grateful for the support of RUSA to participate in this program.
For her participation in the EL program Margaret stated “I look forward to participating in the program and further develop my leadership skills.
The American Library Association (ALA) Emerging Leaders (EL) program is a leadership development program which enables newer library workers from across the country to participate in problem-solving work groups, networks with peers, gain an inside look into ALA structure, and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity. It puts participants on the fast track to ALA Committee volunteerism as well as other professional library-related organizations.
You can read more about the Emerging Leaders program at ALA Emerging Leaders Program
The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) is a division of the American Library Association. RUSA serves all types of libraries in reference, user services, adult readers advisory and collection development as well as resource sharing, genealogy and archives, business reference and reference technology.
RUSA has six specialty sections that are free to RUSA members: BRASS (Business Reference and Services Section), CODES (Collection Development and Evaluation Section), ETS (Emerging Technologies Section), HS (History Section), RSS (Reference Services Section), and STARS (Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section).