The LIS department’s graduation ceremony will be on Friday May 6 from 2:30 – 4:30 in SOE 120. All are invited to attend (please RSVP here). The speaker will be Susan Brown, director of the Chapel Hill Public Library. Her bio is below.
Susan Brown took her first library job to earn beer money while in college, never thinking it would turn into a career. After several years in academic and government libraries, she found her home at a public library. In 2013, she returned to the “Southern Part of Heaven” to become the Director of the Chapel Hill Public Library. Before that, she was the Marketing Director at Lawrence Public Library in Lawrence, KS, where she spearheaded the Banned Books Trading Card Project, which won a John Cotton Dana Award from the American Library Association. Before moving to Kansas, she worked at libraries in Virginia and North Carolina, including Wake County and Orange County Public Libraries. Susan holds a B.A. from Virginia Tech and an M.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She blogs about marketing, management, leadership, and libraries at www.658point8.com.