An Arlington Heights built-in and above Huntley library administrator has been called the new top librarian in Elk Grove Village.
Patrick McDonald replaces longtime Elk Grove library administrator Lee Maternowski, who retired in June afterwards 17 years at the helm, and a absolute of 38 years at the library. McDonald has been on the job for about a anniversary afterwards his hiring was accustomed absolutely by the library lath of trustees.
McDonald, 39, served as administrator of the Huntley Area Accessible Library District from 2009 to 2013 and administrator of library adventures in Arlington Heights afore that. For the aftermost 10 months, McDonald served as a agents affiliate of the World Scholar's Cup, an all-embracing alternation of bookish competitions for average and aerial academy students, but he said that job appropriate added traveling than he capital to do, so he was attractive to acknowledgment to the bookstacks.
He begin the accessible administrator position at the Elk Grove library, a 63,000-square-foot architecture in the centermost of boondocks with a 385,000-item accumulating and $5.3 actor anniversary budget.
"I'm amorous about our mission as a accessible library and facilitating admission to advice for the community," McDonald said. "We appetite to accommodate the best accessible library account to the community."
The library lath apprenticed with Lynn Elam Consulting to aggregate applications and do prescreenings of those absorbed in the Elk Grove library administrator job. Elam, authoritative librarian of the Algonquin Area Accessible Library, presented the lath with a half-dozen finalists, and the lath conducted interviews with the top three, according to lath President Bruce Barnett.
Board associates were afflicted by McDonald, Barnett said.
"He's a abundant communicator," Barnett said. "That's what we like about him."
McDonald will be paid a abject bacon of $105,000 and will accept the library's accepted account package.
He says his actual affairs for the library accommodate afterward through on projects in progress, including lighting improvements throughout the architecture and accurate aliment at the architecture entrance.
"Beyond that, I anticipate it's continuing to body on the account we're alms here, blockage in blow with the association with what they appetite and need, and authoritative abiding we're accouterment that."
McDonald accustomed a masters of library science amount from the University of Illinois in 2006, a bachelor's amount from Stanford University, and is a alum of Hersey Aerial School.
Title : New Elk Grove library administrator comes from jobs in Huntley, Arlington Heights
Description : An Arlington Heights built-in and above Huntley library administrator has been called the new top librarian in Elk Grove Village. Patric...