Following the news that California Independent Booksellers Alliance executive director Calvin Crosby is buying Betsy Burton's interest in the King's English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, Utah, CALIBA has begun looking for a new executive director.
CALIBA's board of directors will work with a hiring committee consisting of president Melinda Powers of Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz; incoming president Mary Williams of Skylight Books, Los Angeles; board member Mark O'Neal of Karel/Dutton Group; Julia Cowlishaw of Vroman's and Book Soup, Pasadena and West Hollywood; Andy Perham of Books Inc. and Compass Books in the Bay Area; Tina Ferguson of Face in a Book, El Dorado Hills; and Katie Orphan of Chevalier's Books, Los Angeles, as well as Calvin Crosby.
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The CALIBA board of directors congratulated Crosby "on this next adventure in his bookselling career and [we] thank him for the leadership, vision, and dedication he has devoted to both NCIBA and then CALIBA, newly formed in 2019 under his stewardship."
CALIBA president Melinda Powers added, "Calvin has led with passion, grace, and unending hard work, bringing CALIBA through an unprecedented pandemic and the challenges of 2020, and positioning us to innovate and thrive together as an all-California power in the years to come. We will dearly miss Calvin and the energy he has brought to the Alliance, even as we are excited to move forward with the opportunities provided by this bittersweet transition."
CALIBA noted that the new executive director "will join an existing, experienced office staff. The CALIBA hiring committee will explore alternative organizational and pay structures for the CALIBA office as a whole to best match the qualifications and skills of the applicants to the open position. We are also looking for candidates who value diversity, equity, and inclusion in our book community and will further the organization and the membership's anti-racist growth and training." The full job description can be found here. Applicants should e-mail a cover letter and resume here.