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Library Advisory Board
The Library Advisory Board is a subcommittee to the Department of Community Services Board mandated in 9 Del. C Section 1352 and New Castle County Code Section 2.05.403.
Regular meetings are the second Wednesday of the month at 5:30.
Any meeting may be postponed to an alternate date agreeable by the Board.
Board Responsibilities
The Library Advisory Board is a 13 member board made up of general citizens and library friends groups responsible for advising the county library manager, recommending programs concerning local library needs, implementation of an effective county library system, and for reviewing and making recommendations on such matters as:
- All new and modified administrative policies
- The budget
- Long-range plans
- Site selection for new libraries
- Conceptual plans for the construction and expansion of new and existing libraries
- Material changes in the master plan
Membership Requirements
The county executive, with the advice and consent of County Council, shall appoint twelve members:
- One from the 1st or 7th District
- One from the 2nd or 8th District
- One from the 3rd or 9th District
- One from the 4th or 10th District
- One from the 5th or 11th District
- One from the 6th or 12th District
- Six members from among existing friends groups, such members to be nominated by the friends groups, particularly those associated with new and/or existing libraries currently under construction
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Diana Brown
Staff Person to the Board
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Library Advisory & Review Board
Physical Address
77 Reads Way
New Castle, DE 19720
Phone: 302-395-5617
Regular Meetings
- 5:30 p.m.
- Second Wednesday of the month
Members
- Abdullah Rashid Muhammad, Chair
- 1st and 7th District, vacant
- Rose Passarella, 2nd and 8th District
- Janet S. Dean, 3rd and 9th District
- Subira Ibrahim, 4th and 10th District
- Judith A. Taggart, 5th and 11th District
- Linda Goodman, 6th and 12th District
- Cheryl Rice-Moore, Friends of Appoquinimink
- Kay Bowes, Brandywine Hundred Friends
- Gerri Krolin-Taylor, Hockessin Friends
- Anita Sterling, Claymont Friends
- Constance Malin, Bear Friends
- Sophia Sotilleo, Newark Friends (DE Council of Lib.)
- Woodlawn Friends, vacant
- Margaret Ann Ryan, Contract Library
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