![]() Let them know it’s a safe environment, they can do what they need to do safely and they have what they need to succeed,” she said. Three, surround yourself with smart, competent people. If it doesn’t work, go back, reassess why it doesn’t work, try something else. The one way I see it is not necessarily the way. “One, leading and accepting different personalities to the table. She says they and others she’s encountered over the years helped her form the principles that make Glenna, Glenna. “The people that supported me and encouraged me had more faith in me than I had in myself,” Wisniewski says. Karen Ingham and Dorothy Morgan on the library staff and Donald MacLaughlin from the library board of trustees. Linda Mann, Kay Budmen and Nancy Silverman at the school district. Elaine Wisowaty and Dennis Connors at Onondaga Parks. Professor Antje Lemke at Syracuse University. Wisniewski will retire as LPL director at the end of July. It winds through the LPL as adult services librarian, coordinator of children, adult and teen services and assistant director before being appointed director in 2016. That history includes becoming full-time at the LPL when her school district position was eliminated in 2009. When her position was cut to half-time in 2003, Wisniewski also became a part-time substitute librarian at the Liverpool Public Library. She ended up working for the school district for 20 years. “What a great schedule to be on,” she says she thought at the time. While expecting the birth of her daughter, Wisniewski heard of a job at the Liverpool Central School District’s Educational Communication Center, like a BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services) for the big school district. “Ding!” Wisniewski says with a laugh about that revisit to the bookmobile suggestion of her high school days. Then an out-of-the-blue query letter brought a slot as a children’s librarian at the Onondaga County Public Libraries’ Mundy Branch, which was followed by a beloved slot as a bookmobile librarian out of the central branch of OCPL. Then came her first professional librarian position in the office of Museums and Historic Sites for Onondaga County Parks. That bachelor’s degree led to a master’s in Archives and Museum Librarianship at SU. Alas, Wisniewski already had it in her mind to study American history at Syracuse University. Taking a career assessment test years later in high school, one of her choices came out as bookmobile librarian. She also remembers riding her bike to the village library, located at the time in a house with creaky floors on Charlotte Street. Yes, she had real-life experience to draw upon. “I’d say, ‘I think you need to read this.’ I’d give due dates.” “We would have our books and checkout cards,” she says. When Glenna Wisniewski was a kid growing up in Baldwinsville, she recalls, on a rainy day she might be found at her friend Jimmy Pirong’s house playing library. ![]()
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