Live Oak Public Libraries Announces Candidate for Executive Director

For Immediate Release

Interim Executive Library Director:

Stephen Whigham

912-652-3601 O

whighams@liveoakpl.org

Communications Coordinator:

Sarah Collier

912-652-3665 O

912-429-5665 C

colliers@liveoakpl.org

Savannah, GA, May 11, 2018 - The Search Committee of Live Oak Public Libraries Regional Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that it has selected a candidate for the position of Library Executive Director, to be presented to the Board of Trustees for vote.

Tom W. Sloan has more than thirty years of library experience and has been a library director in systems in Florida, Illinois and most recently New York. He has served as the State Librarian and Director in Delaware as well as a U.S. Library Speaker/Specialist – Office of International Information Programs for the Department of State.

Sloan earned a Masters in Library and Information Science from Florida State University and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Delaware.

The Regional Board of Library Trustees will vote on Sloan’s candidacy on May 24, 2018 at the Regional Board of Trustees meeting at 5:00 PM at Bull Street Library.

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