Is Herrera 'a Perfect Fit'?

摘要

I doubt that anyone qualifies as a 'perfect fit" to direct the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), but Luis Herrera, who just took the job, comes very close. To direct a major urban library has been his "career objective." His experience and education testify to his belief that "libraries are a vital government service." Along with the MLS, Herrera pursued a master's degree in public administration, instead of the MBA more common with library administrators. San Francisco has been tough on its library directors. Many good ones moved on after relatively short stints. In addition to answering to the library commission, mayor, and city council, the SFPL director is accountable in complicated ways to the leaders of the Friends group (which includes what was formerly the library foundation) and a comparatively strong library union. He's accountable to the city's citizens, too, as diverse a constituency as anywhere in America.