The Board of the Umatilla County Special Library District (UCSLD) has hired Erin McCusker as its new library director.
McCusker has extensive experience in a variety of library service fields. Starting her library career in 1992, she spent 11 years in the Boise Basin Library District in Idaho, becoming its director in 1997.
She helped build partnerships to improve library services throughout the district. She also worked with her peer directors in Idaho to expand opportunities for group purchasing and other shared benefits. McCusker then moved into the position of library consultant for the Idaho Commission for Libraries in Boise.
She worked for seven years at the Commission for Libraries before moving on to Flagstaff, Ariz., when her husband was transferred with the Forest Service. In Arizona she worked at the main branch of the Flagstaff City – Coconino County Public Library as an adult and youth services librarian for a year before becoming a branch supervisor.
McCusker received her bachelor of science degree in secondary education from Idaho State University and earned her MLS in 2004 from Emporia State University. She and her husband have settled in Pendleton. McCusker has worked in Pendleton for a private firm in records management for the past three years.
