Live Oak Public LIbrary Director Elected to Public Library Association Board of Directors
Friday, April 24th, 2026
Live Oak Public Library Executive Director, Lola DeWitt, was elected to a three-year term as director-at-large for the Public Library Association (PLA) board at its annual conference earlier this month in Minneapolis.
PLA is the largest association dedicated to supporting the unique and evolving needs of public library professionals across the United States and Canada.
DeWitt's term on the twelve-member board begins with the 2026 ALA Annual Conference, June 25 - 29th, in Chicago, and will continue through the 2029 ALA annual conference.
DeWitt has been Executive Director of Live Oak Public Library for three and a half years. She has more than twenty years of library experience in Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico and Georgia and earned her Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also has a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management from Eastern University.
In its more than one hundred years of existence, Lola is the first African American, and one of a just few women, to be named Executive Director of the Live Oak Public Library system.
She is the first Executive Director of Live Oak Public Library to be elected to the board of PLA.
For more information about Live Oak Public Library programs, resources and services, visit www.liveoakpl.org. To find out more about supporting the library go to www.liveoakpl.org/about/development .
