The Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library’s new CEO hosted a public event Friday.
Coming from Mobile, Alabama, Kinney says there are a lot of similarities in the types of library patrons he’ll be serving in Evansville. He said there a couple of areas where he would like to increase the library’s offerings.
“I think we’ve always had strong children’s programming in this library system, but I think that recently we’ve transitioned to doing some different types of programming. Now, I think it’s probably time to do some more things with teen and adult programming, and library outreach.”
It was a year ago this week that a controversy over Drag Queen Story Hour jammed local government meeting agendas and prompted police protection for a children’s story time event. Kinney said the event has prompted protests at libraries across the country, including at his previous location in Mobile.
