District 9
Serving Northwest Texas.
Welcome to District 9! Our district’s membership includes librarians, staff, trustees, full-time library students, and other interested individuals representing school, public, academic, and special libraries. We are located in Northwest Texas.
District 9 includes 29 Texas counties: Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crane, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Ector, Floyd, Gaines, Garza, Glasscock, Hale, Hockley, Howard, King, Lamb, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Midland, Motley, Terry, Upton, Ward, Winkler, and Yoakum.
2019-2020 officers
Chair: Brianna Barnard, Midland College bbarnard@midland.edu
2019-2020
Past Chair: Kristi Starr, Lubbock ISD kristi.starr@lubbockisd.org
2019-2020
Councilor: Lacy Sage, Roosevelt ISD
lsage@risdtx.us
2019-2022
Alt-Councilor: Joshua Salmans, Texas Tech University joshua.salmans@ttu.edu
2019-2022
Webmaster: Jessica Miesner, South Plains College jmiesner@southplainscollege.edu
2019-2020
EB liaison: Mark Gottschalk, South Plains College markgottschalktxla@gmail.com
2019-2021
(EB = executive board)
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