Gretchen Pruett, director of the New Braunfels Public Library, and current president of the Texas Library Association is the newest Bowden Fellow. Pruett brings her deep experience in library leadership and her work through TxLA on intellectual freedom issues and through the her post on the Board of the Tocker Foundation, her knowledge of rural libraries.
Director Pruett will be advising the Bowden Professor on how to better connect and serve public libraries.