'Moving to the other side of the desk': Paula Kiely reflects on 27 years as a librarian
“If you can read, you can do just about anything, but when you can’t, you hit a wall,” Paula Kiely says on the library system’s early outreach literacy programming. (File photo by Alhaji Camara) A self-proclaimed lover of books, Paula Kiely never gave much thought to becoming a librarian and instead chose to pursue a fine arts degree. But a conversation with a supervisor changed that. “The lightbulb went off, and I thought, ‘I should be a librarian,’ ” Kiely said. Kiely, who served as the director of the Milwaukee Public Library since 2006, retired in August. The road to lib...
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