Statement from the Board of Trustees:
The Board of Trustees of the Russell County Public Library wants to share our excitement for this new chapter for Lindsey. As our Library Director since 2012, she has led the most transformative era in library services in Russell County since its beginning under the leadership of Elizabeth Phelps. While our happiness is genuine, we also, like this community, will deeply miss her in this role.
One of Lindsey’s strengths in this role has been to build a solid foundation for our library’s future growth. Our staff is second to none. Our operational and fiscal position is secure and sustainable. Our construction project for The Green is underway and there are several other exciting projects to improve library services on the task list. We have a clear mission to connect our community by making space and offering resources to all, and our Board is committed to ensuring continuity of all these things as we move forward in the hiring process.
Statement from Lindsey Westerfield:
To my beloved community,
Serving as the director of your public library for the last 13 and a half years has been the greatest professional honor of my life. I am humbled by the trust you have placed in me to be your steward of this treasured space.
Alongside visionary trustees and a staff of dedicated and passionate community servants, we have built one of the very best public libraries in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. We accomplished this with steadfastness, intentionality, forward thinking, and a deep commitment to making the best possible decisions for our community. It is only because of this solid culture of excellence and the capable hands I leave it in that I could consider a new opportunity.
In February, I will close my chapter as the Director of the Russell County Public Library and begin a new one as the Community Engagement Coordinator of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Kentucky. I am incredibly excited both to stay in Russell County and to continue meaningful work on a broader scale for a program I believe in wholeheartedly. One in which my own child runs to the mailbox to receive her own book every month.
Please visit me to say hello, reminisce, or better yet, check out a book during my remaining weeks at RCPL. And continue visiting, reading, sharing the love of books with the children in your life, attending programs, utilizing our services, and telling everyone you meet that Russell County has the very best library, many years into the future. I can’t wait to be a library patron right alongside you and do the same.
With deepest gratitude,
Lindsey
Lindsey B. Westerfield
Library Director
Russell County Public Library
(270) 343-7323
PO Box 970 / 535 N. Main St.
Jamestown, KY 42629
russellcountylibrary.com
