The Executive Committee of Cyrenius H. Booth Library Board of Trustees has announced that Beryl Harrison, assistant library director, will assume the responsibilities of interim director, effective December 17.the announcement last month that current Library Director Brenda McKinley has accepted the position of Director of Ridgefield Library. Ms McKinley will succeed Chris Nolan, who is retiring December 31 after 16 years of service, according the Ridgefield Library website.Ms Harrison told The Newtown Bee in February 2015.  She has always been happy, she said last year, to help as needed.

Robert  Geckle, president of the Board of Trustees, stated that: "The board is very appreciative and delighted that Beryl has agreed to assume this important responsibility while we search for a new director. The search process, which is now underway, is expected to be completed  in early 2017."

Ms Harrison will be stepping into the role of interim director - a position she previously held - following

Ms McKinley's last day at Booth Library is scheduled to be December 16.

Beryl Harrison celebrated her 25th anniversary with Newtown's library in February 2015.  She  was hired as the library's first reference librarian, the day after Martin Luther King Day, in 1990.

She continues to work within the reference department, but was also named Assistant Director to then Library Director Janet Woycik in 1998. She was named Assistant Library Director in September 2012, as Ms Woycik's retirement neared.

Nine months later she was again named Assistant Director and Head of Circulation, after a new library director left his post 12 weeks after beginning work at 25 Main Street. She served in that temporary post until Ms McKinley was promoted to Library Director in July 2014.

Being an interim director has worked well for Ms Harrison, who still enjoys helping library patrons solve problems and find answers. Becoming director of the library has never been her goal,