December 01, 2004
OCPL Board holds reception for new library leader
SYRACUSE ---On Thursday, Oct. 28, Onondaga County Public Library's Board of Trustees held a reception at the Everson Museum of Art to welcome Joyce M. Latham, the library system's new executive director. Latham, who came from Champaign, Ill., took over the position Aug. 16 this year.
OCPL is one of 23 public library systems chartered by the Board of Regents of the State of New York. It operates the Central Library, eight city branches, and two satellite libraries in community centers. It serves 20 independent suburban member libraries in the county. By contract with North Country Library System, it also provides full services to three member libraries in Oswego County.
Latham was named the winner of the 2004 Justin Winsor Prize by the American Library Association (ALA) Library History Round Table for her essay "Clergy of the Mind: William S. Learned, the Carnegie Corporation and the American Library Association." In the spring of 2004, Latham assisted with an assessment of the technology readiness in academic libraries in sub-Saharan Africa for the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
At the reception held in Latham's honor, OCPL Board President Edmund Sullivan and Onondaga County Deputy Director Ed Kochian introduced the new library director to local and state community leaders in attendance, including New York State Senator John DeFrancisco and Assemblyman William Barclay.
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