DC Libraries Hires High-Priced Librarian

D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams takes home $152,000 a year, The D.C. Board of Library Trustees has hired Ginnie Cooper as the system’s newest executive director, at $179,946 a year. Cooper will come to D.C. after three-and-a-half years leading the Brooklyn Public Library system, which has 60 libraries and serves some 3 million people and for which she was paid $200,000.
dcist.com Asks Is she worth that much? They say there is little doubt that anyone charged with fixing the District’s notoriously troubled public library system will need a good financial incentive to stay on the job, but is being paid almost $50,000 more than the city’s chief executive a fair investment? Maybe not in this case, they say.

May 22, 2006 by Uncategorized 0

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