Ruth F. Metz

Ruth F. Metz is Deputy Director of the Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon, and a consultant in private practice. She has served as a librarian for twenty-seven years, working as Administrative Librarian for Community Services at the Oakland Public Library, Director of the Bay Area Library and Information System in the San Francisco Bay Area, Director of Library Development and Adult Services at the Colorado State Library in Denver, and Director of the Learning Resources Center at St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron, Michigan. Metz earned her master's degree in library science from the University of Michigan.

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