Adult Services Manager
San Diego County Library
Leslie Ann Masland is an Adult Services Manager at the San Diego County Libraries. As a child of immigrants and a first-generation post-graduate she understands the nuances of navigating the professional library world and Spanish-speaking communities, specializing in outreach to Spanish-speaking communities, developing culturally relevant programming that meets the need and feeds the soul through art. She has produced the bi-national library conference Seguimos Creando Enlaces and presented at the conference in English and Spanish.
She holds the following from San Jose State Library: B.A. Humanities, M.A. in Museum Studies, and an MLIS in Special Collections and Archives.
She serves as a union steward for her department for SEIU 221, chairs the Labor History Caucus, and leads quarterly Labor Management Meetings. In 2022 she represented the library on the bargaining team for county contract, where she successfully negotiated equity pay raises for library technicians, added Rural Library Premium, and an additional compensation step for the Librarian classification in what would be the strongest ratified contract the County of San Diego has had in 30+ years. She looks forward to the next round of negotiations with vim and vigor.
Sunday, June 30, 2024
11:00am – 12:00pm Pacific