Dean and President Cynthia Briggs Kittredge has announced that Alison O'Reilly Poage, interim director of the Booher Library at Seminary of the Southwest, has been offered and has accepted the position of director of the Booher Library.
"I am happy to announce that the search committee recommended unanimously that she be appointed to this position based on her qualifications and her excellent work since her arrival in January," said Dean Kittredge.
Alison served most recently as director of the Cutchogue New Suffolk Free Library in Cutchogue, NY. She has lived in Austin before, having worked for the Austin Public Library system from 2007-2010. She received her Master’s of Library Science from City University of New York in 2001.
Academic Dean Scott Bader-Saye says, "We are fortunate to have found a candidate with strong administrative skills, a gift for hospitality, a collegial management style, and a true commitment to the mission of this school. Alison has already proven herself able and willing to carry the Booher Library through a time of transition and innovation. She is exactly what we need in a permanent director."
