Anne Turner

Anne M. Turner has been the Director of the Santa Cruz City-County Library System since late 1983. Prior library service included directorships in Lowell and Amherst, Massachusetts, and a stint as a Reference Librarian at a small college in Western Massachusetts.

Librarianship is her second career: she studied planning and political science in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for five years for a housing advocacy organization in Philadelphia.

Her Master of Science and Doctor of Arts degrees are from the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston.

Despite these East Coast credentials, she grew up in California.

A past President of the California Library Association, she now edits that organization’s magazine, CLARION. She has written extensively for the library press, and is the author of four books: It Comes with the Territory—Handling Problem Situations in Libraries (revised edition McFarland, 2004), Getting Political (Neal-Schuman,1997), Vote Yes for Libraries (McFarland,2000), and Managing Money—A Guide for Librarians (McFarland, 2007).