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November 4, 2005
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State Librarian appoints 3 Library Programs Consultants to Library Development Services
Sacramento - State Librarian of California Susan Hildreth today announced that she has appointed three new library programs consultants to the California State Library’s Library Development Services bureau. The consultants’ permanent appointments at the California State Library are effective immediately. The new library programs Consultants are:
Jacquelyn Brinkley, served as the literacy program coordinator at the Escondido Public Library. She has also served as community outreach manager for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in San Diego County, and as the assistant director of NC Kids Adoption and Foster Care Network in Greensboro, NC.
E. Suzanne Flint has contracted with the North Bay Cooperative Library System to coordinate their Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Reach Out and Read (ROR) grant. She has also been the executive director of California ROR and the director of San Mateo County ROR. Flint created one of the country's first pediatric consumer health libraries at Stanford University.
Cynthia Mediavilla, most recently the director of the California Center for the Book, has spent several years working for the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Information Studies as a lecturer and as associate director of Special Projects. Mediavilla has worked as a librarian for the cities of Downey and Orange and for the San Diego County Library and has a Ph.D. in Library Science from UCLA.
Brinkley, Flint, and Mediavilla will work under the direct supervision of new LDS assistant chief, Gerry Maginnity, who joined chief Tom Andersen in administering the bureau in October.
Of the new appointments, Hildreth says, "Jacquie, Suzanne, and Cindy bring a great variety of talents and new energy to the California State Library. We are excited to have these talented professionals on board!”