Feb 2, 2015 2 min read

On Jan. 5, Diane Klinefelter took over as Library Director of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, a position that she held previously from October 2006 to March 2012.

“I feel as though I never left,” Klinefelter laughed. “I mean that positively – it’s like coming home.”

In fact, Klinefelter, of Peters Township, has been back at the Library since January of 2014 as part-time curator of the Captain Thomas Espy Post No. 153. She will continue her duties as curator.

“Diane has put together an extraordinary roster of programming to mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the War, of Lincoln’s assassination,” said Maggie Forbes, executive director. “I expect the same sort of vision and energy from her as library director.”

Nate Wyrick, who has served as the Library’s interim director since June 2013, is resuming his position as assistant library director. He will oversee the day to day running of the library and is taking on additional responsibilities in terms of facility management.

Klinefelter’s experience – as a librarian, as someone with 35 years business experience, as someone who’s written two books on the Civil War, as a professional genealogist, as someone with deep understanding of the ACFL&MH and the community it serves – combines to make her the ideal Andrew Carnegie Free Library director. To that mix she adds something less quantifiable. “I fell in love with this building the first time I walked into it. And that was before I even thought of going to library school,” Klinefelter said.