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Tammy Westergard, MLS

Library Director | Public-Sector Executive

 

Executive leadership across municipal, county, district, and state library systems, with responsibility for public-sector budgets ranging from $1.5M to $13.8M, teams of up to 60 FTE, and statewide, multi-agency initiatives.
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Advancing public libraries as education, workforce, and economic-development infrastructure.
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ABOUT

Tammy Westergard is a senior public-sector executive and library director with more than 20 years of leadership experience across municipal, county, district, and state library systems. Her roles have included Library Director, Interim Director, Deputy Director, Nevada State Librarian and Division Administrator, and current statewide leadership embedded within the Governor’s Office of Economic Development.

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She is nationally, internationally, and statewide recognized for advancing libraries as education, workforce, and economic-development infrastructure, and for leading organizations through strategic resets, fiscal constraint, failed ballot measures, staffing instability, and crisis conditions while maintaining service continuity, staff confidence, and public trust.

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Tammy is also a published and presenting practitioner-scholar at the International Conference on Education, Research and Innovation (iCERi), where her applied research focuses on labor-market literacy, workforce-aligned library services, and the use of immersive technologies and assessment tools to improve real-world outcomes. Her research directly informs executive strategy, evaluation, and decision-making in public library systems.

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Executive Scope & Authority

  • Executive leadership of public-sector organizations and initiatives with budgets ranging from $1.5M to $13.8M

  • Direct management of teams of up to 60 full-time equivalent staff

  • Statewide and multi-agency leadership across libraries, workforce systems, education, and economic development

  • Board governance and statutory compliance, including public meetings and regulatory environments

  • Legislative, Interim Finance Committee, and Board of Examiners engagement

  • Crisis leadership, including continuity of operations planning and emergency response

  • Oversight of facilities planning, consolidation, and operational modernization as well as grew a single branch system into multiple branches

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