Schlow Centre Region Library’s next director is already a familiar face around the downtown State College institution.
Lisa Rives Collens, currently head of patron services at Schlow, will succeed Cathi Alloway as the library’s director. Alloway is retiring on April 2 after 50 years in the library profession, including the last 10 at Schlow.
The Schlow Library Board of Trustees unanimously approved Collens’ appointment last week and the Centre Region Council of Governments General Forum confirmed the appointment on Monday night.
The search for the next director drew applications from candidates all around the eastern United States, COG executive director Eric Norenberg said.
Mayor Ron Filippelli and former Councilwoman Cathy Dauler will seek a return to State College Borough Council in this year’s election.
In a joint statement on Friday, both said that they will run as a team on the Democratic ballot in the May 18 primary.
Filippelli previously was elected to two terms on borough council from 2006 to 2013, serving one term as council president and one year as the chair of the Centre Region Council of Governments. He was appointed interim mayor of State College in December 2019 to fill the remaining two years of Don Hahn’s term after Hahn was elected district judge.