Kati Irons

Kati Irons is currently the audiovisual collection development librarian for the Pierce County Library System, Tacoma, Washington. She selects and maintains a 500,000-item audiovisual collection for the eighteen-branch system, which serves 560,000 people and manages an AV budget that has increased from $30,000 in 1991 to more than $700,000 in 2014. Irons works with in-staff and Friends groups to develop programming and educates staff on appropriate marketing and licensing for film programs. She has presented on libraries and film programming at ALA in 2011 and at WLA conferences in 2011 and 2012.