Library Board relaxes criteria
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After advertising nationally for a new library director with at least five years administrative experience, the East Baton Rouge Library Board voted Thursday to relax that requirement for members of its own staff.
Without opposition, the board also approved Chairman Dan Reed’s motion to extend the application deadline for library staffers. Instead of the advertised June 16 deadline, library staffers will have until Aug. 31 to apply for the post.
Unlike the previous applicants, the local staffers will only have to have at least three years experience as a library director or assistant director.
The national search drew only seven applicants, all from outside Louisiana.
After some discussion, the board agreed to invite four of the applicants to Baton Rouge for a round of interviews. Staffers who apply over the next 10 days would also be eligible for the interviews.
Those making the initial cut include:
The board had previously set the size of the new library to have two floors, both with 43,000 square feet, and a third floor with 13,562 square feet.
But a group known as Citizens for Library Independence has lobbied in recent weeks for the board to expand the third floor of the new main library to 43,000 square feet to make room for a genealogy section and special collections.
The board agreed Thursday to add an additional 15,000 square feet to the third floor, and to have the architects design the proposed building so the third floor can be built out in the future.
Without opposition, the board also approved Chairman Dan Reed’s motion to extend the application deadline for library staffers. Instead of the advertised June 16 deadline, library staffers will have until Aug. 31 to apply for the post.
Unlike the previous applicants, the local staffers will only have to have at least three years experience as a library director or assistant director.
The national search drew only seven applicants, all from outside Louisiana.
After some discussion, the board agreed to invite four of the applicants to Baton Rouge for a round of interviews. Staffers who apply over the next 10 days would also be eligible for the interviews.
Those making the initial cut include:
- Emily Eddy, library media specialist at the Alamo Navajo Community School in Magdelena, N.M., for the past four years.
- David Farrar, director of the Talladega, Ala., Public Library System since 2001.
- Michael Golrick, library director at L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire, Wis., for the past two years.
- Michael Lamb, whose résumé shows no current employment. Lamb worked as assistant director of the district library in Jackson, Mich., from 2004 until December, including a stint as interim director for six months in 2005.
The board had previously set the size of the new library to have two floors, both with 43,000 square feet, and a third floor with 13,562 square feet.
But a group known as Citizens for Library Independence has lobbied in recent weeks for the board to expand the third floor of the new main library to 43,000 square feet to make room for a genealogy section and special collections.
The board agreed Thursday to add an additional 15,000 square feet to the third floor, and to have the architects design the proposed building so the third floor can be built out in the future.
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