{"id":26742,"date":"2019-08-25T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=26742"},"modified":"2019-08-22T08:31:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T12:31:38","slug":"new-library-director-hired-at-paulding-county-carnegie-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/new-library-director-hired-at-paulding-county-carnegie-library\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW LIBRARY DIRECTOR HIRED AT PAULDING COUNTY CARNEGIE LIBRARY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ellen-Williams-Librarian.jpg?resize=257%2C311&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26743\" width=\"257\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ellen-Williams-Librarian.jpg?w=318&amp;ssl=1 318w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ellen-Williams-Librarian.jpg?resize=260%2C315&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ellen-Williams-Librarian.jpg?resize=160%2C194&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Paulding County Carnegie Library Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that a new Director of the Library System has been hired, effective July 29, 2019.&nbsp; The Board has hired Ms. Ellen Williams of Payne, Ohio to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of former Director, Ms. Susan Pieper. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Williams brings eighteen years of Ohio public school library service to Paulding County Carnegie Library. &nbsp; Thirteen years of service was as the District Librarian at Paulding Exempted Village Schools; and, three years of service was as District Librarian at Defiance City Schools.&nbsp; Ms. Williams also has one year of experience as a Media Specialist with Fort Wayne Community Schools; as well as, two years of service as a Business and Technology Reference Librarian with Allen County Indiana Public Library System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Williams has an MLS degree, is licensed as a State of Ohio certified Library Media Specialist and has a BA business degree.&nbsp; Also, Ms. Williams possesses an Ohio teaching license; she is an Ohio Department of Education Master Teacher.&nbsp; Ms. Williams is also a certified purchasing manager through the National Association of Purchasing Management.&nbsp; The professional organizations that Ms. Williams has membership with, in the State of Ohio, are: OELMA (Ohio Educational Library Media Organization) and INFOhio, an Ohio PreK-12 digital Library Board member and is a member of the Executive Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The skill base that Ms. Williams brings to the Library includes: managing collections, negotiation, technology instruction and electronic database navigation proficiency.&nbsp; She is passionate about instilling a love of reading by helping patrons find the books, or materials, that they need or want.&nbsp; The Director position will allow her to reach a more extensive user base and she looks forward to serving the residents of Paulding County.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paulding County Carnegie Library Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that a new Director of the Library System<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Ellen-Williams-Librarian.jpg?fit=318%2C385&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-6Xk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 21:03:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}