Mississippi Library Association

Library System promotes staff; St. Amant, Carlisle, and Simpkins (People in the News)

Recently, the Jackson-George Regional Library System promoted staff to new positions within the administrative services to fill vacancies for Assistant Director, Youth Services Coordinator, and the position of assistant computer trainer.

Library director Carol Hewlett said, “Since public library use goes up during difficult financial times we were feeling the stress on our human resources and definitely needed to fill these long-vacant positions. By doing this, we will once again offer more public computer training; establish a finer mandate to focus on library services to preschoolers, school-age children, and teens; and continue to enhance facilities throughout our system. We filled all of these positions from within by promoting three current employees. The fact that we found the talent, skills and experience we needed right here among our own speaks well for our staff because we use the same criteria in-house as we do when we advertise outside our system.”

Alisa St. Amant was selected to the Assistant Library Director position. Alisa was previously the Technical Services Manager/cataloger in the administration office at Pascagoula Public Library. Her new duties will include facilities maintenance, expansion, furniture and equipment, safety, coordinate daily delivery services, statistics, technology, and other library service issues.

Bethany Carlisle was selected to the Youth Services Coordinator position to coordinate, plan and implement all youth services activities and programming in the eight-branch system. The previous youth services coordinator Mary Ann Louviere is retiring in March. Bethany was promoted from the Vancleave Public Library where she worked as the youth services assistant for the branch.

Leanna Simpkins will fill a position in the library system that will enhance public computer training. She will work as the assistant trainer to provide the popular, free computer classes within the branch libraries. Leanna was also promoted from the Ocean Springs Municipal Library where she worked as library clerk.

For information about local libraries, visit the library website at www.jgrls.org.

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Posted on: February 3rd, 2010