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The city of Sunnyvale has continued with its 2005 goal of filling four key director vacancies by announcing on Jan. 25 that it had found its new library director. This announcement comes less than a week before swearing in the new director of the Department of Public Safety.
Some three months after former library director Victoria Johnson left office, City Manager Amy Chan announced that Watsonville's library director, Deborah L. Barrow, will be taking over Sunnyvale's library staff of almost 130 people on Feb. 28.
Barrow has been in Watsonville since 1995 and has held management positions in the Chula Vista Public Library system. She has a bachelor's degree from Scripps College and a masters of library sciences degree from the University of Southern California.
According to Johnson, the library circulates more items hourly than any other library in the state. More than 2 million items were checked out and returned last year alone.
Johnson attributed that number to the fact that Sunnyvale--a city of more than 130,000 people--has only one public library, serving a highly educated, tech-savvy population.
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