Carla Hayden was sworn in as the 14th Librarian of Congress on Sept. 14, 2016. Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to lead the national library, was nominated to the position by President Barack Obama. Prior to this, she served, since 1993, as CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Hayden was a member of the National Museum and Library Services Board, and she was deputy commissioner and chief librarian of the Chicago Public Library from 1991 to 1993. Hayden was president of the American Library Association from 2003 to 2004. In 1995, she was the first African American to receive Library Journal’s Librarian of the Year Award in recognition of her outreach services at the Pratt Library, which included an after-school center for Baltimore teens offering homework assistance and college and career counseling.