Brett W. Lear

Brett W. Lear was director of the Martin County Library System in Florida. From 2008 to 2011 he served as the reference, adult services, and programming coordinator for Multnomah County Library (MCL) in Oregon. While at MCL he worked with a team that planned, scheduled, coordinated, and produced more than 2,500 family and adult programs and special events each year. He worked as a library manager with the Jefferson County Public Library in Colorado from 1996 to 2008, where he chaired the Program Steering Committee several times over the years. He has been actively involved in adult programming since accepting his first professional position with the New York Public Library in 1992. From 1995 through 1999 he served on the Reference and User Services Association's (RUSA) Services to Adults Committee. This committee presented a program titled "Adult Programming: When You Have to Do It Yourself" at the 1996 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. While serving on the Services to Adults Committee, he participated in the writing of the RUSA publication Adult Programming: A Manual for Libraries. He was a panelist on the program "What Have You Done for Me Lately? Adult Programming in Public Libraries" at the 2002 Public Library Association Conference. He has presented programming workshops in Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, and Florida.