Los Angeles City Librarian Martin Gomez Leaving LAPL for Vice Dean Position at USC
From The Daily Breeze:
Martin Gomez is leaving his post as the head librarian of the city of Los Angeles to become vice dean of libraries USC, it was announced Friday.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in announced Gomez’s resignation, said the librarian’s three-year tenure at the helm of the 72-branch public system was “outstanding.”
Villaraigosa credited Gomez with galvanizing support needed to pass a charter amendment last year that boosted funding for public libraries. The increased funding allowed Gomez last July to re-open branches on Mondays.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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