Live Oak Public Library welcomes Kerry Jamieson as Development Director for the system.

Jamieson has more than twenty years of experience in development, communications and public relations and most recently worked for the Lost Tree Foundation, a private residential foundation of ultra-high-net-worth individuals, where she raised and distributed more than $5 million annually.

Jamieson is the first professional Live Oak Public Library has employed in at least a decade to diversify and supplement its traditional funding resources.

"One of the five pillars of our 2025 strategic plan is 'Stewardship'," said Lola DeWitt, Executive Director. "We have a responsibility to the community to diversify our funding base for financial health and stability and to sustain the expanded programs and resources we know the community is looking for from its library system."

"Kerry is starting from the ground up to build a donor base. She has the experience, energy and resourcefulness we needed to get the department up and running after so many years of dormancy," DeWitt continued.

LOPL funding priorities are early literacy (ages 0 to 5), community engagement through mobile libraries and improving existing library spaces.

The first public development campaign for LOPL started April 1, Library Giving Day, with opportunities to underwrite the 2026 Summer Reading Program. Learn more or donate online at www.liveoakpl.org/about/development.