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New library director Joan Johnson addresses a crowd during the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Good Hope Library in July. Also pictured are former library director Paula Kiely and Mayor Tom Barrett. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
Johnson was officially named the director of the Milwaukee Public Library after
Johnson, 59, joined the Milwaukee Public Library system in 2006. She is the first African American woman and the fourth woman overall to be named library director.
Here are five things to know about Milwaukee’s new library director.
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“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/NNS.
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.
“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