Jeffrey Trzeciak

About Jeffrey Trzeciak

An accomplished administrator with more than 30 years of library experience in a variety of libraries including public and academic. For the past fifteen years I have held senior leadership positions including my current position as Executive Director of the Dayton Metro Library. In 2018 I was honored by the New Jersey Association of Library Assistants with their Recognition Award, an award that is given to Directors who show commitment to their staff and to staff development. I am even more honored to say my staff nominated me.As Director of Newark Public Library I launched a successful community-based strategic planning process with significant board, staff and public participation. Under my leadership the Newark Public Library has developed a reputation as “the place to be in Newark.” This past year alone I successfully secured a special allocation from the State of New Jersey through resolutions passed through the State Senate, State Assembly and, finally, the Governor’s Office. I also secured the largest corporate gift in the history of Newark Public Library,$2 million from Prudential toward capital improvements. Under my leadership in 2008 the McMaster libraries became the first Canadian recipient of the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award in recognition of our transformation and our adoption of technological innovations. In the 2004 Library Journal “Movers and Shakers” edition I was highlighted as “The Regionalist” for my efforts at bringing together Detroit cultural arts institutions.

Experience

1. Executive Director

   Dayton Metro Library

   Mar 2021 — Present · Dayton, OH, US

   Reporting to a seven-member Board of Trustees, the Executive Director manages a budget of approximately $46 million and a staff over 300 at 18 locations around the Dayton, Ohio metro area. Collections number around 1 million items and growing. E-resource downloads reached more than 2 million for the first time in 2025. Most recent projects completed (2022) include the building and opening of two new branches including the largest in the system at over square feet. Two more branches are currently being built with completion within the next year. The Dayton Room at the Main Library offers materials related to local history including poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, Wright Brothers and others. Bookmobile service is provided in areas underserved by current branches.

Education

• University of Dayton

  BSc, Secondary Education (History and Spanish)

  1984 — 1987

• Indiana University Bloomington

  MLS, Library Science

  1987 — 1991

Skills

• Educational Leadership
• Archives
• Libraries
• Library Services
• Metadata
• Library
• Library Management
• Special Collections
• Digital Libraries
• Library Research
• Library Instruction
• Digitization
• Library 2.0
• Library Reference
• Electronic Resources
• Library Science
• Interlibrary Loan
• Virtual Reference
• Collection Development
• Integrated Library Systems
• Academic Libraries
• Information Literacy