[Nfbc-info] {Disarmed} Fw: [Blind_Democrats] National Library Services Gets a New Director:

Sat Feb 18 06:30:15 UTC 2012

I hope we will get the chance to meet and to hear Karen Keninger speak at 
our National Convention this summer.  I will be looking forward to that!

Joy

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>> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:57 AM
>> Subject: [Blind_Democrats] National Library Services Gets a New Director:
>>
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>>
>>
>> New director of NLS
>>
>>
>> Karen Keninger Appointed Director of the National Library Service
>> for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
>>
>> Librarian of Congress James H.  Billington today announced the
>> appointment of Karen A.  Keninger as director of the National
>> Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS),
>> effective March 26, 2012.  Keninger succeeds Frank Kurt Cylke,
>> who retired from federal service on February 28, 2011.
>>
>> "Ms.  Keninger's qualifications and experience are superb for
>> this position," said Billington in announcing the appointment.
>> "She has demonstrated leadership and strategic thinking
>> throughout her career." Since 2008, Keninger has been the
>> director of the Iowa Department for the Blind, a leading provider
>> in the United States of vocational rehabilitation and
>> independent-living programs and library services for blind and
>> visually impaired individuals.  Keninger was selected from an
>> impressive pool of candidates following an extensive search
>> process that began last year.
>>
>> "Keninger is no stranger to the NLS program," Billington noted.
>> "She is a highly respected administrator and a leader in the NLS
>> library network." As director of the Iowa Library for the Blind
>> and Physically Handicapped for eight years, from 2000-2008,
>> Keninger managed the statewide library program, the
>> machine-lending agency, instructional materials center, braille
>> production, and audio production units.  Keninger's initiatives
>> included the planning and implementation of a new, in-house
>> digital recording program with a state-of-the-art recording
>> studio and a corps of volunteers to expand and transform the
>> state's audio-production program.
>>
>> "Keninger has a proven track record of collaboration and
>> innovation," said Billington.  She served on the Digital
>> Long-Term Planning Group established by NLS in 2001 to guide
>> planning for the now successfully completed digital talking book
>> transition, and on the successor Digital Transition Advisory
>> Committee.  She led the transition in Iowa from analog to digital
>> talking books and players and was successful in securing funds
>> for the digital conversion of locally-produced talking books.
>> She is a daily user of the full range of information technologies
>> for the blind and visually impaired, including Web-Braille,
>> digital talking book machines and books, and online download
>> services.
>>
>> Throughout her career, Keninger has established and maintained
>> effective working relationships with a broad range of individuals
>> and organizations at the national, state, and local levels.
>> Keninger was elected 2012 president of the National Council of
>> State Agencies for the Blind.  From 2002-2008, she served as
>> chair of the Consortium of User Libraries.
>>
>> Keninger holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Drake
>> University in Iowa and a master's degree in English, business and
>> technical writing from Iowa State University.  She completed
>> graduate courses in library and information science at the
>> University of Iowa.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Karen Keninger was born and raised in Vinton, Iowa, the third of
>> seven children in a happy and lively farming family.  When she
>> was 16 months old her parents
>> discovered that she could not see very well, and she was later
>> diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa.  Although she had some
>> vision as a child, she was completely
>> blind by the age of 20.  She attended school at the Iowa Braille
>> and Sight Saving School in Vinton, graduating in 1970.  In 1973
>> she graduated from Drake
>> University with a B.A.  in Journalism.
>>
>> In 1987, after many years as a full-time homemaker and mother,
>> she established a freelance writing service in Newton, Iowa.  As
>> part of this effort, Keninger
>> went back to school and graduated in 1991 with a masters degree
>> in English with an emphasis in business and technical writing
>> from Iowa State University.
>> She continued her freelance work until 1995 when she accepted the
>> position of Rehabilitation Consultant with the Iowa Department
>> for the Blind.
>>
>> In 2000 she was promoted to Program Administrator for the Iowa
>> Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.  After eight
>> years in that position, she
>> was appointed by the Iowa Commission for the Blind to the
>> position of Director of the Iowa Department for the Blind
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