The Verona Town Council announced at tonight’s meeting that Verona Public Library Director Jim Thomas will retire at the end of this month. Thomas has been a library employee for 30 years.
Thomas said after the meeting that the library’s board of trustees is meeting now to review resumes of possible replacements, and that there is one internal candidate among them.
Under New Jersey law, the libraries in towns with populations above 10,000 must be headed by someone with a a library science degree and a state-issued professional librarian’s certificate.
