Sue Considine, Executive Director of the Fayetteville Free Library is running for PLA Director-at-Large!!
If you are a PLA member, please consider a vote for Sue during the upcoming ALA PLA election.
Sue Considine is a librarian, a lover of hockey, travel, good food, and good wine, a mother to two children—Jay and Ryan—and the executive director of the Fayetteville (NY) Free Library (FFL). Ms. Considine has had the honor to serve the FM community as Executive Director of the FFL for 18 years. As an administrator of a busy, progressive public library, she has successfully recruited and developed a team of dynamic professionals, support staff, and community members who offer cutting edge library services in a state-of-the-art environment to an engaged community.
Ms. Considine is a leader of innovation in the library field, pioneering new transformative methods of community engagement including integration of participatory STEAM learning into all library services and launching the first ever fabrication laboratory, the FFL Fab Lab, in a public library. She is a passionate advocate for librarians and is committed to the development of the next generation of librarian leaders through the identification and creation of leadership opportunities in the information field for new graduates and emerging library leaders. She is also a seasoned national and international public speaker who has presented on contemporary library issues including, future libraries, innovation, leadership, organizational design, team development, and more.
Sue is a proud recipient of the 2012 NYLA Mary Bobinski Innovative Public Library Director Award and both the 2013 Library Journal Mover & Shaker and the WCNY Women Who Make America Awards. She received the White House “Champion of Change” Award and had the honor to participate in a panel discussion, representing the FFL, CNY, and public libraries, at the White House. In 2015, Sue received the Central New York Business Journal Not for Profit Excellence Award and was invited to present on a panel at the first annual day of Making at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. In 2016, Sue Considine received the PLA Charlie Robinson Award for innovation and excellence in public library leadership. In 2017, she received the Business of the Year award on behalf of the Fayetteville Free Library from the FM Chamber of Commerce.
Personal Statement
“Active participation in our professional associations contributes to continuous improvement and positive changes in our profession. ‘Strategic Doing’ is a concept that I work to integrate into all of my professional work and activities. I will be honored to enthusiastically and actively participate in the good, transformative work of PLA through participation in PLA leadership as a director-at-large.”
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