Library Director

Tara  joined the Bertha Bartlett Public Library as the Library Director in September 2023. 

She completed her MLIS at the University of Iowa and has worked

at the Urbandale and Woodward Public Libraries. image.png

Tara is passionate about libraries being a community gathering place for learning, reliable information, culture, and FUN!! 

She has too many favorite books to list...but loves anything Fredrik Backman and was inspired by "Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life" by Eric Klinenberg.

Stop in and meet Tara - she would love to hear what you are passionate about and what you would like to see at our library. She loves hearing what we can do to make the library THE connection point in the community.

 

Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.

R. David Lankes