Library Board of Trustees
Regularly scheduled Library Board of Trustees meetings are held at 6 pm on the second Tuesday of the month inside City Hall in the Council Chambers.
Anyone wishing to speak in person at the Library Board of Trustees meeting during public comment or on a particular item will be required to fill out a blue slip. Blue slips must be turned in prior to public comment beginning or before an agenda item is taken up. Blue slips will not be accepted after that time.
To comment by email, submit your comments no later than 4:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting by emailing your name, agenda item you are commenting on and your comments to librarycomments@ontarioca.gov. All comments received by the deadline will be forwarded to the City Council for consideration before action is taken on the matter and will be entered into the record.
A five member Library Board of Trustees, appointed by the City Council, makes recommendations to the City Council regarding the operation of the Library.
Board of Trustees
Aaron Bratton- President
Jessica Hernandez- Vice President
Devlin Smith- Secretary
Crisol Mena- Trustee
Wayne Bradley- Trustee
Library Director- Shawn Thrasher
More About the Library Board of Trustees
The Library Board of Trustees provides citizen leadership in maintaining and developing a high level of library services to the city of Ontario acting in an advisory capacity to City Council. Trustees should understand, believe in, and commit to the educational, informational, community and economic development, and recreational roles of Ontario City Library.
A successful Library Board of Trustee member advocates for the library, the library’s mission and vision, and the community of library patrons. Trustees support modern library tenets found in American Library Association’s essential core values of librarianship that definite, inform, and guide professional practice: access, confidentiality & privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, the public good, preservation, professionalism, service, social responsibility, and sustainability. Trustees should have some understanding of the basic topics that are important to modern librarianship, including:
- Youth and Adult Literacy
- Technological Advances in a Library Setting
- Library’s role in economic and workforce development
- The Library Bill of Rights, Intellectual Freedom & the Freedom to Read
- Confidentiality of Patron Records
- the Public's Right to Information