Capitol Hill resident Valerie Wonder has been named to The Seattle Public Library’s Citizen Implementation Review Panel (CIRP), which provides citizen oversight of the “Libraries for All” building program.
Wonder is a resource development specialist with the International Rescue Committee, a refugee resettlement agency. She has worked as a researcher with the Public Access Computing Project and as a trainer for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s U.S. Library Program.
She has a master’s degree in Library and Information Science and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Administration, both from the University of Washington. She is a participant in Seattle Works’ The Bridge program, is a member of the Refugee Forum, and volunteers with Treehouse. She also has served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Benin. Her term expires Dec. 31, 2007.
The Seattle City Council and The Seattle Public Library board of trustees established CIRP after voters passed the $196.4 million Libraries for All bond measure in 1998. The 15 CIRP members – Seattle residents from neighborhoods throughout the city – meet monthly to monitor and provide feedback on implementation of the building program. The bond money, which can be used only for construction of libraries, is funding new and improved branches and the new Central Library. Each library has a designated CIRP steward.
CIRP volunteers are appointed to staggered three-year terms by the Library Board and the City Neighborhood Council (CNC) and are confirmed by the City Council.
For more information on the Library’s building program, visit the Library’s Web site at www.spl.org.
(For more information, call Caroline Young Ullmann, Library communications assistant, at 206-615-1627.)
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