“If you can read, you can do just about anything, but when you can’t, you hit a wall,” Paula Kiely says on the library system’s early outreach literacy programming. (File photo by Alhaji Camara)
A self-proclaimed lover of books, Paula Kiely never gave much thought to becoming a librarian and instead chose to pursue a fine arts degree.
But a conversation with a supervisor changed that.
“The lightbulb went off, and I thought, ‘I should be a librarian,’ ” Kiely said.
Kiely, who served as the director of the Milwaukee Public Library since 2006, retired in August.
The road to librarian