Sarah P.
🗣 I am passionate about building communities through education, literacy, technology and cultural awareness. Libraries are community empowerment engines. Executive Library Director (III) Niagara Falls Public Library
- Role
- Executive Library Director (Iii) at Niagara Falls Public Library
- Location
- Niagara Falls, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sarah P.
As the coxswain of our library rowboat, I, the Library Director am responsible for…
Experience
Executive Library Director (Iii)
Jun 2017 — Present · Buffalo/Niagara, NY, US
Create a policy with 7 trustees to oversee a Central Library budget and maintenance of facilities, overseeing the remodeling of physical buildings to become ADA compliant Building relationships with elected officials and other stakeholders.Services offered in the main building (80 sqft) and branch (12 400 sqft) Manage civil service / unionized staff of 36 Creation of Library’s annual budget, presentation of budgetary responsibilities to City Council and Board of Trustees and securing alternative forms of funding to supplement 2.4 million annual budget. Donor Trust and Dunlap Trust’s annual budget 1.2 M investments (FY22) 27k cardholders; 187 489 transactions; 259,978 holdings; 202,483 visits. Implementing a yearly collection conspectus Initiated and implemented a 5-year strategic plan, short/medium and long-range planning; assessing and prioritizing projects and policies Creation of a facilities management plan, Tech Plan Grant writing totaling 6M (FY 20••••23) Experience with project management of facilities improvements Raised 408k to inventory LH collection, online catalog Unique community partnershipsFY23-24 Digitization of LH collection,500K grant funded Installation of Makerspace, Chromebook/ MS Surface Tablet/Wifi Hotspot loan program, Privacy Zoom Pods, Tool Library LED light conversion of the main building, installation of ADA drinking fountains, security door locking system, window replacement through 160K grantTech infrastructure upgradeFY 22-24
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