John Hill, chair of the Board of Library Trustees, informed the Federation late Wednesday that we were no longer invited to sit at the dais during Board of Library Trustees meetings. Mr. Hill stated that his intention was to allow the Chief Librarian to have a separate yet strong relationship with the Friends instead of [...]
At the DC Council’s June 20 legislative meeting, Councilmember Kathy Patterson (D-Ward 3) successfully moved an amendment to provide the D.C. Public Library (DCPL) system with $740,000 in fiscal year (FY) 2006 reserve funding to begin a summertime, “fix-it-now” initiative for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library and the branch libraries. Patterson, who chairs [...]
On Thursday, May 18, 2006, the Board of Library Trustees for the District of Columbia Public Library System met and voted unanimously to hire Ginnie Cooper, Executive Director of the Brooklyn (NY) Public Library as the new Executive Director of the DC Public Library System. Mrs. Cooper will start her new position by August, 2006.