1. Carla Diane Hayden was born on August 10,1952 and is an American librarian who is serving as the 14th librarian of Congress.
27 Facts About Carla Hayden
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Carla Hayden began her career at the Chicago Public Library, and earned a Ph.
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Carla Hayden was born in Tallahassee, Florida, to Bruce Kennard Carla Hayden Jr.
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Carla Hayden's parents met while attending Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.
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Carla Hayden had a younger half-brother from her father's second marriage, Bruce Kennard Hayden, III, who died in 1992.
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Carla Hayden has said that her passion for reading was inspired by Marguerite de Angeli's Bright April, a 1946 book about a young African-American girl who was in the Brownies.
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Carla Hayden attended MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, and then transferred to Roosevelt University.
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Carla Hayden didn't consider a career in libraries until after she had graduated from Roosevelt University with a degree in political science and African history in 1973.
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Carla Hayden received her master's degree in library science in 1977, and a doctorate in library science in 1987, both from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School.
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Carla Hayden began her library career at the Chicago Public Library telling stories to children with autism.
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From 1982 to 1987, Carla Hayden worked as a library services coordinator at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
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Carla Hayden then moved back to Chicago and became Deputy Commissioner and Chief Librarian of the Chicago Public Library, posts she held from 1991 to 1993.
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From 1993 to 2016, Carla Hayden was executive director of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library.
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On July 1,1993, Carla Hayden was appointed to director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the public library system in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Carla Hayden left the position on August 11,2016, when she was appointed to the Library of Congress.
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Carla Hayden is the first African American to have received this award.
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Carla Hayden was publicly opposed to the Patriot Act, voicing concerns about library users' privacy.
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Carla Hayden especially objected to the special permissions contained in Section 215 of that law, which gave the Department of Justice and the FBI the power to access library user records.
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Carla Hayden debated publicly with then-Attorney General John Ashcroft over the language of the law.
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Carla Hayden asserted that Ashcroft should release information as to the number of libraries that had been visited under the provisions of Section 215.
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On February 24,2016, President Barack Obama nominated Carla Hayden to serve as the next librarian of Congress.
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Carla Hayden opposed the 2000 Children's Internet Protection Act, which was a sticking point in her nomination to become Librarian of Congress.
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Carla Hayden was sworn in by Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts on September 14,2016.
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Carla Hayden is first woman and the first African American to hold the position.
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Carla Hayden is a librarian by profession, whereas many past librarians of Congress have been scholars and historians.
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In January 2017, Carla Hayden hosted 4-year-old Daliyah Marie Arana as Librarian of Congress for the day.
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In 1995, Carla Hayden received the Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal, becoming the first African American to receive the award.