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Sioux Falls council confirms appointment of new Siouxland Libraries director

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Summary

The City Council unanimously approved the mayor's nominee, Alyssa Boysen, to serve as director of Siouxland Libraries; Boysen outlined the library's challenge-and-appeal process and a July 1 state law change that affects appeals.

The Sioux Falls City Council voted 8-0 June 3 to advise and consent to the mayor's appointment of Alyssa Boysen as director of Siouxland Libraries; Boysen is scheduled to begin on June 23.

The appointment matters because Siouxland Libraries is a joint city–county system with county representation on its Board of Trustees and the director oversees library collections, programming and service delivery across the city and Minnehaha County.

Mayor (unnamed in the transcript) presented Boysen as an internal candidate with roughly 20 years of service in the library system, describing her as "committed to our existing programming" and open to new delivery models. Boysen…

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