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<\/a>My name is Kathy Lussier, and I come to NOBLE as its new Executive Director having worked with member-driven library organizations for more than 20 years. Many of you may know me from the years I led the Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (MassLNC), a project where I worked with NOBLE and other Massachusetts networks to move to Evergreen. After the three participating networks were live on Evergreen in May 2012, I continued to work with these networks to coordinate shared development projects, help network staff with their Evergreen implementations, and advocate on behalf of Massachusetts libraries in the larger Evergreen community.<\/p>\nSince leaving MassLNC in December 2018, I have worked as Executive Director for the SAILS library network in the South Coast area of Massachusetts. As much as I enjoyed supporting SAILS libraries as they supported the needs of their library users, I am thrilled to return to working with NOBLE libraries again.<\/p>\n
I consider it a privilege to be in a position where I can go into work everyday to support libraries and help them provide new and innovative services to their users. I strongly believe in the mission of libraries to build information literacy skills at a time when the information landscape has become so complex, to provide equal access to information regardless of a person’s means, and to stand up for the intellectual freedom and privacy of all users. I am also an advocate for open-source software as a means to respond to the growing expectation of users while maintaining the fundamental values of the library profession.<\/p>\n
When I’m not working, I live in Seekonk with my husband, Paul; my two adult children, William and Emily; and my cat, Q-Tip (named for the small bit of white on the tip of the tail of this otherwise black cat). I enjoy hiking, biking and baking. Now that my youngest has graduated from high school, we plan to move further north, most likely to a NOBLE community.<\/p>\n
Over the coming months, I plan to visit the NOBLE libraries to become acquainted with everyone working in my new library community. I look forward to meeting all of you and working to support your libraries!<\/p>\n
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As I settle into my first day at NOBLE, I just want to say hello to everyone in the network and provide a brief introduction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exdir","category-noble"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noblenet.org\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noblenet.org\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noblenet.org\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noblenet.org\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noblenet.org\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.noblenet.org\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19493,"href":"https:\/\/www.noblenet.org\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643\/revisions\/19493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noblenet.org\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noblenet.org\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noblenet.org\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}