WORCESTER, Mass. — Jason Homer, executive director of the Worcester Public Library for nearly six years, will leave to lead the Baltimore County Public Library in Maryland, the Worcester library’s board of directors announced on Thursday, Oct. 1. Homer’s last day in Worcester will be Nov. 6.
Tressa Santillo, the library’s director for library innovation and public services, will serve as interim executive director while the board conducts a national search for a permanent replacement.
“Leaving Worcester Public Library is incredibly bittersweet,” Homer said in a statement released by the library. “There is no way to adequately express what this community and this library have meant to me.”…