The acclaimed Cuyahoga County Public Library, which serves 47 of Cuyahoga County’s municipalities with its 27 branches, has just named its new CEO. He’s Jamar Rahming, currently executive director of Wilmington [Delaware] Institute Free Library. He succeeds retiring CEO Tracy Strobel, who stepped down June 1. Rahming will start his new job in Northeast Ohio on August 11. He will be the library’s first African-American director.
Rahming has a masters’ degree in library and information science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has worked in the library sector for two decades. In the seven years he led the Wilmington Institute Free Library, it won awards such as the 2022 National Medal for Museum and Library Service; the 2022 John Dana Cotton Public Relations Award; the 2024 Library Journal Marketer of the Year Award; and a Fodor’s Travel citation as one of the most beautiful libraries in the U.S. He’s previously worked in Charleston County, South Carolina; Austin, Texas; and Jackson County, Oregon.
Rahming brings another honor to CCPL: last month, he was chosen as president-elect of the Public Library Association, the largest association supporting public library professionals in the U.S. and Canada.
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