Current Position and Past Experience
Since 1999, Barbara Allen has been the Executive Director for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. She also currently serves as a Board Member with the Association for Collaborative Leadership, which she has been a part of four five years.

Allen served as a Director at the CIC Center for Library Initiatives for five years before stepping into her current role.

Before joining the CIC, Allen worked as a consultant working with the Missouri State Library for three years, the Virginia State Library for one year at the Illinois State Library for four years.

Education, Honors and Achievements
Allen earned her BA from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1985. She earned her MLS from the same institution in 1986.