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Tompkins County Public Library Director Susan Currie was selected to join leaders from libraries throughout New York state in Albany September 21 and 22 as part of the inaugural retreat of the New York Library Association's Sustainability Initiative.

Developed in response to NYLA's 2014 Resolution on the Importance of Sustainable Libraries, the Sustainability Initiative recognizes the essential services libraries provide the communities they serve and is designed to ensure continued patron access to dynamic libraries.

"Libraries have always supported sustainability and are truly one of the best examples of a 'green initiative'," Currie said. "For every dollar we receive from Tompkins County, TCPL provides nearly $6 in services to our community."

Currie was one of just 23 library leaders selected to serve on NYLA's Sustainability Initiative, which will help libraries develop best practices for using sustainability as a guiding principle for decisions on facilities, operations, library policies, technology, programming and partnerships.

TCPL has approximately 40,000 registered cardholders and provides approximately a million in-person and online opportunities for access to resources and services each year. Currie was appointed director of Tompkins County Public Library in 2009 and has more than 30 years of library experience.  She has served on the American Library Association's Library Leadership Administration and Management Association, Library Journals' Advisory Board, the New York Library Association Public Library Section Board, the American Library Association's Library and Information Technology Association, the Tompkins County Civil War Sesquicentennial Celebration Commission, Tompkins County's Special Committee on Broadband Service and the Tompkins County Bicentennial Commission.

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