Purpose/Duties
To serve as a resource body and liaison to the Board of Supervisors, the Director of County Library Services, and the community and to find ways and means of enlisting public interest in supporting and improving Library services. To serve as the Measure A Advisory Committee to provide independent citizen oversight for Measure A, a special tax for the Marin County Free Library.
For more information about the Library Commission, please visit the Board of Supervisors, opens a new window page.
How to Apply
Applications may be obtained from the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Room 329, Administration Building, Marin Civic Center (415-473-7331), or access the Application online.
Meetings
The next Library Commission meeting will be held at 10 am on Friday, August 16, 2024, at the Marin City Library.
Please check back closer to the meeting date for agenda information.
Regular meetings are held the second Wednesday of the month, unless a holiday. Location rotates among Library branches. For information, please call 415-473-6051.
Members
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Sally Hauser
District 1
First appointed 01/27/2015
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Linda Ward
District 1
First appointed 01/27/2015
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Vacant
District 1
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Sue Ream
District 2
First appointed 07/18/2017
President
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Patricia Anya Schandler
District 2
First appointed 03/03/2015
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Vacant
District 2
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Ann Laner Kaplan
District 3
First appointed 03/03/2015
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Amelia Lahn
District 3
First appointed 03/07/2023
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Vacant
District 3
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Loretta Farley
District 4
First appointed 07/10/2012
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Nick Javaras
District 4
First appointed 02/03/2015
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Claudia Wilson
District 4
First appointed 01/11/2022
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Ali Iqbal
District 5
First appointed 01/31/2017
Vice President
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Alison Blume
District 5
First appointed 05/10/2022
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Glynda Christian
District 5
First appointed 12/06/22