For the first time in the city’s history, an African-American woman was appointed as the head of a major public library system Thursday.
Dionne Mack-Harvin will serve as executive director of the Brooklyn Public Library, the fifth largest system in the country.
She was voted in unanimously by the board of trustees earlier this week.
"I have to tell you Dionne earned her position the old fashioned way: she earned it, very, very simple," said Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.
“My vision for Brooklyn Public Library is that every Brooklyn library will be the center of the community,” said Mack-Harvin. “We will increase access so that the library doors are open at all 60 of our locations when they should be."
Mack-Harvin started her career as a librarian at the Crown Heights branch more than a decade ago.
