Our History
After having graduated from NYU in 1970 young Wesley Staples returned to the Island with two thousand books in tow. In a subsequent “book talk” with a childhood friend, Ed Wheaton, he suggested that the Island needed a library. This was an idea whose time had come.
Staff
Megan Tripler, Library Operations Manger
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Chelsea Riedel, Community Programs Manager
Taylor Rossini, Island Institute Fellow
Board of Directors
Carol Petraitis, president
Laurie Farley, vice president
Karin Hagopian Draper, secretary
Wesley Staples, alternate secretary
John Conley, treasurer
Members:
Nancy Davis
Jerry Goto
Jessica Harrington
Pamela Macfie
Siobhan Ryan