The new person in charge of the $77 million Clark County Library District is Kelvin Watson.
He comes most recently from Florida, and he’s the first person of color to be executive director of the library district, which has 25 branches and 700 employees.
In 2019, he won librarian of the year. In 2020, one of his branches won library of the year, and recently he won the Margaret E. Monroe Award for Innovative Leadership.
“What drew me to Clark County and the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District was just the reputation of the library district itself, Watson said, The opportunity to come in and share with the community some innovation, transformation of some of the services that I was able to offer and lead at my two previous libraries.”