Aldine ISD’s Cindy Buchanan Honored With TLA’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Cindy Buchanan, the Program Director for Library Services at Aldine Independent School District (Aldine ISD), was recognized with the Texas Library Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Cindy Buchanan honored by TLA.

Under her leadership, the Aldine ISD library program has been through a great deal of growth and change. She managed a massive project to realign library collections to meet new grade level groupings that impacted most of the schools in the district.
Buchanan has hired, trained, and championed her librarians to become state leaders in their work, with programming such as STEM and Makerspace integration and Name That Book competitions.

Through her relationship building and advocacy, Buchanan was able to grow the library services department staff to include a digital learning specialist to help her train and support the 80 libraries and 67,000+ students in her district.

Buchanan has served as the Program Director for Library Services at Aldine ISD since 2012. Previous to that, she was a system administrator, librarian, and teacher with Aldine ISD for many years.