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Online Pressroom - Press Release
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Doug Tattershall, Lexington Public Library
Marketing Department
(859) 231-5515
August 26, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Committee named to lead search for new director
The Lexington Public Library Board of Trustees, with the help of representatives from the community, library staff and Friends of the Library, has begun the process of selecting a new executive director for the Lexington Public Library. The full committee will meet for the first time on Wednesday, Sept. 2.
The Executive Director Search Committee’s community representatives are Susan Brown, director of the Transylvania University Library; Guy Huguelet, owner and president of the executive search firm, G. Alexander & Associates, and past president of Commerce Lexington; and Jonathan Weatherby, an attorney for Thomas & King.
The Friends of the Library will be represented by Jake Gibbs, president of the Friends organization, and the library staff will be represented by Central Library Reference Department Reference Librarian Wendy Miller and Village Branch Assistant Manager Rebecca Montano-Smith.
The following members of the library’s Board of Trustees and Advisory Board also will serve on the search committee:
? Larry Smith, Board of Trustees chairman and an independent market research consultant.
? Louis “Buzz” Carmichael, Board of Trustees member and vice president for capital markets at CBA Pharma.
? Ling-yuh “Miko” Pattie, Board of Trustees member and senior advisor to the vice president of information and technology at the Council on Postsecondary Education.
? David Fleenor, Advisory Board member and an attorney with Stoll Keenon Ogden.
? Jeremy Horton, Advisory Board member and former executive director of the Kentucky Democratic Party.
? Kent Lowe, Advisory Board member and president and CEO of Lowe Promotions and chairman of the Better Business Bureau board.
The search committee is chaired by Smith, who said the first order of business for the committee will be to select a search firm. The committee will create a list of characteristics and traits desired in the new executive director, the search firm will work to find qualified applicants, and the committee will then conduct interviews.
Smith said he hopes the committee will have a short list of candidates to interview by the end of the calendar year.
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