Carmel Clay Public Library hires new director

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September 16, 2015

On Aug. 17, Carmel Clay Public Library (CCPL)’s new director, Carolyn Goolsby, began work. She replaced the acting director, Nancy Newport, who replaced Wendy Phillips, the previous director of 15 years who retired this past summer.

As director, Goolsby represents the library to other organizations and works for the library board, which consists of seven individuals appointed by the community, to allow the library to develop in the direction the community wants.

“As the new director, I hope to continue the really good work that the library has been doing,” she said. “I hope to continue (Phillips’s) great job, and I’m hoping that as the profession of library science changes and as library changes, our students and the adults who come in the afternoon change over time, we will be able to keep up with that. I hope to create a culture where people will really like being at the library and working at the library.”

Kimaya Raje, sixth-year member of Teen Library Council (TLC) and senior, said she looks forward to working with Goolsby.

“We have never really directly worked with a library director outside of the young adult department, so I am excited,” Raje said via email. “We will be able to be more involved in the library than we have before and be able to continue to promote the library more as well. I believe that she will bring a fresh perspective to the library’s program. She also especially seems to be invested in the progress and future of the library which is just the sort of goal the library should keep pursuing. I would love to see the CCPL follow the upward path for progress it has been on by way of these hopes or goals.”

According to Goolsby, she, the library’s staff and TLC members work to have CCPL to reach out to members of the community. Goolsby said a large part about being a director is being the public face for CCPL in collaborating with other organizations such as schools in the Carmel Clay school district in order to keep the library in the public eye. She said the public library and its staffs will work with these organizations to adapt and to meet the needs of the community.

Goolsby said, “I think (the library’s staff’s) jobs will change because the library will change. We’ll start doing different programs that we want to do. Perhaps, some things that we talked about but never have gotten quite done.”

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