Waukesha names new library executive director

May 15, 2012

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By Laurel Walker of the Journal Sentinel

May 15, 2012 0

Waukesha - The Waukesha Public Library will have a new executive director beginning June 11 - former Princeton (Ill.) Public Library director Grant C. Lynch.

The Library Board hired Lynch to replace Jane Ameel, who retired May 1 after 27 years of leading the library. He'll be paid $91,800 a year and receive a $4,000 relocation package for his move.

Lynch spent four years as Princeton's library director, which served a regional population of about 35,000. Prior to that, while working on his graduate degree in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was director of the Community Workshop Series, a computer literacy educational program in four partnering urban libraries. Before his library career, Lynch taught Shakespeare and the classics at a rural high school in Virginia.

He is currently working on a second graduate degree in public policy and administration through a distance-learning program through Northwestern University.

The Waukesha Public Library was named Wisconsin Library of the Year last year.

About Laurel Walker

Laurel Walker covered local, school and county government for 20 years -- the last half of that at the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- before she was named Waukesha County columnist in 1997. Today she writes about the people, places and events around metropolitan Milwaukee with a broad suburban focus. She was the youngest of nine children raised on a central Wisconsin farm before leaving the nest for journalism studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a masters degree at the University of Oregon. She has spent the last half of her life in Waukesha County, where she and her husband raised two sons. Though she has a fondness for life in Waukesha, she eagerly partakes in the culture of the big city to the east and the recreation of the forests to the west. With sons in the arts, she has a special fondness for symphonic music concerts and art museums. She finds peace in a good book at a Northwoods getaway weekend, adventure in family visits to the east and west coasts, and satisfaction in a column well-written that reaches readers.