Virginia Library Association 2025 Election of Officers Results

Please join us in congratulating the newly elected members of the Virginia Library Association Executive Committee for 2025.

Vice-President/President-Elect - Nancy Falciani-White 

Nancy Falciani-White has been elected to a 3-year term as Vice-President/President-Elect.

Nancy Falciani-White (she/her) is the Library Director of the McGraw-Page Library at Randolph-Macon College (Ashland, VA). She has worked in academic libraries for over 20 years, beginning as an undergraduate interlibrary loan student employee at Wheaton College. She became the staff coordinator of the interlibrary loan office as her first “real job” and fell in love with the challenges of finding obscure materials for faculty and students and working small miracles to get them resources by their deadline. She eventually learned that a lack of planning on their part did not constitute an emergency on her part. She decided to pursue her MSLIS while working in ILL and then moved into reference and instruction, providing leadership for the first structured instruction program at the library, and she was then promoted to department head for reference, instruction, outreach, educational technology, and assessment before moving to Virginia to lead the McGraw-Page Library in 2016. 

Before all that time in academia, however, Nancy was a dedicated public library user. She grew up in New Jersey, homeschooled from second grade through high school, and the public library was central to her childhood. She grew up a voracious reader, and the magic of the public library for her was in the breadth of what was available to read, learn, and use, as well as in the welcoming staff who knew her by name.

Nancy has been a peer-reviewer for VLACRL presentations, a presenter and attendee at VLA, and a mentor in the Virginia Library Leadership Academy (VALLA), as well as involved with VIVA and VICULA.

Nancy earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (English, Education, Music) from Wheaton College, an MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an EdD in Instructional Technology from Northern Illinois University.

 Secretary - Kendra Hawkins

Kendra Hawkins has been elected to a 2-year term as Secretary.

Kendra Hawkins has served as the Coordinator of Library Services at the Tidewater Community College Portsmouth Campus Library since May 2021. In addition to overseeing budgeting and acquisitions for the libraries and tutoring centers, she leads staff teams in student engagement activities, collection services and providing technology support. She also serves on several TCC and Virginia library consortium committees, including serving as recorder for the TCC Faculty Professional Development Committee and chairing the Virginia Tidewater Consortium (VTC) Collections Committee.

Growing up in a military family, Kendra moved around a lot before settling down in the Tidewater area of Southeastern Virginia while she was in elementary school. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies from Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA and a Master of Library Science from Clarion University in Clarion, PA.  Since receiving her MLS, she has worked as an Acquisitions and Electronic Resources librarian for the Department of the Army, Manager of the Indian River Library in Chesapeake, VA and Technology and Content Strategy Manager at the Suffolk Public Library in Suffolk VA.

Kendra has been an active member of VLA for several years, most recently serving on the task force for the 2024 Virginia Library Leadership Academy (VALLA) Cohort. She also co-presented at the 2023 VLA Conference. She wholeheartedly believes in the purpose of the VLA “to develop, promote, and improve library and information services, library staff, and the profession of librarianship in order to advance literacy and learning and to ensure access to information in the Commonwealth of Virginia.” Kendra also believes the mission of libraries is rooted in the principles of access, education, community, and intellectual freedom, with the overarching goal of enriching lives and strengthening communities.

An avid reader and science fiction fan, Kendra finds solace in exploring new galaxies and going on interstellar adventures through her frequent Amazon book purchases and favorite TV series.

Nancy and Kendra will begin their terms at the conclusion of the Virginia Library Association's business meeting, held immediately before the closing session of the Annual Conference on Friday, October 18, 2024.