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Skye Patrick
Skye Patrick is an American librarian who has served as Library Director of LA County Library since February 2016.
Patrick grew up in Lansing, Michigan where she was partially in foster care. She worked as a library page while in high school and graduated from Northern Michigan University in 1996 with a bachelor of fine arts degree.
While at NMU, she helped create the Ten Percent Club which became the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersexed Student Union. Her master’s degree in library and information science is from the University of Pittsburgh.
Patrick was the Director of Libraries for Broward County, Florida where she was the second African American, the first openly LGBTQ person, and first woman to hold the position. Before that she was Assistant Director of the Queens Public Library and San Francisco Public Library.
Patrick has served as Library Director of LA County Library since February 2016 and is its first African American Director.
As of 2023, the Library Director oversees Los Angeles County's 85 libraries, 1 institutional library, 4 Cultural Resource Centers, and a mobile fleet of MākMō maker mobiles and Bookmobiles which serve 3.5 million people with an annual operating budget of over $200 million.
Under Patrick's tenure, the Library started a fine-forgiveness program where patrons under 21 can "read away" their late fees, resulting in 13,000 previously blocked accounts being reinstated. The Library also eliminated fines for overdue books and materials in August 2021.
Patrick implemented LA County Library’s iCount initiative, which prioritizes the design and development of services and programs that address the needs of diverse customers and their varying age groups, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, social-economic status, physical abilities, nationalities, and legal status.
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Skye Patrick
Skye Patrick is an American librarian who has served as Library Director of LA County Library since February 2016.
Patrick grew up in Lansing, Michigan where she was partially in foster care. She worked as a library page while in high school and graduated from Northern Michigan University in 1996 with a bachelor of fine arts degree.
While at NMU, she helped create the Ten Percent Club which became the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersexed Student Union. Her master’s degree in library and information science is from the University of Pittsburgh.
Patrick was the Director of Libraries for Broward County, Florida where she was the second African American, the first openly LGBTQ person, and first woman to hold the position. Before that she was Assistant Director of the Queens Public Library and San Francisco Public Library.
Patrick has served as Library Director of LA County Library since February 2016 and is its first African American Director.
As of 2023, the Library Director oversees Los Angeles County's 85 libraries, 1 institutional library, 4 Cultural Resource Centers, and a mobile fleet of MākMō maker mobiles and Bookmobiles which serve 3.5 million people with an annual operating budget of over $200 million.
Under Patrick's tenure, the Library started a fine-forgiveness program where patrons under 21 can "read away" their late fees, resulting in 13,000 previously blocked accounts being reinstated. The Library also eliminated fines for overdue books and materials in August 2021.
Patrick implemented LA County Library’s iCount initiative, which prioritizes the design and development of services and programs that address the needs of diverse customers and their varying age groups, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, social-economic status, physical abilities, nationalities, and legal status.
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