The Waukesha Public Library has found a new director.
The Waukesha Public Library Board of Trustees voted 7-2 to accept the unanimous recommendation of the WPL Human Resource Committee to hire Grant Lynch of Princeton, Ill., as their new director.
He will begin June 11 and receive a salary of $91,800 per year, and be eligible to receive $4,000 for moving expenses.
Lynch, who has served as the director of the Princeton Public Library in Illinois since 2008, replaces Jane Ameel, who retired earlier this month after serving as Waukesha’s director since 1984.
Lynch was also the director of the Community Workshop Series for the University Library System at the University of North Carolina from 2006 to 2008.
Before that, he was a high school English teacher in Virgina for five years. Lynch grew up in Connecticut and attended Indiana University for his undergraduate work from 1997 to 2001.