As director of the Development Office, Roman will be responsible for coordinating fund raising activities throughout the association and for creating and maintaining donor relationships. Roman brings to the position a broad range of library experience. Public Library, where she served first as Adult Reference Librarian and then as head of Children's Services. Public Library, where her role as head of youth services included the coordination of young adult and children's services. Before joining the ALA in 1986, Roman was director of the Reference Services Department at the American Medical Association in Chicago.
Roman is active in numerous professional organizations.
She is a frequent speaker, author of books and articles, and serves on several boards, national advisory committees and steering committees for non-profit organizations and national projects. She has led delegations of children's literature and service specialists to Russia, China, South Africa and Eastern Europe. As executive director of ALSC and ALTA, Roman was actively involved in fund raising. She was the consultant to and recipient of numerous grants from both public and private sector funders, including the U.S. Department of Education, the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Prudential Foundation, Ameritech Foundation and the National Science Foundation.