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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.

To provide public comment, you must attend in-person. 

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

Elisabeth Armijo- President  
Aaron Bratton- Vice President  
Devlin Smith- Secretary 
Crisol Mena- 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