Wayne Disher is a retired public Library Director for the City of Hemet Public Library. He served as President of the California Library Association in 2012. He received his Master of Library and Information Science degree at San José State University in 1994. He serves as part-time lecturer at the SJSU School of Information where he has twice been selected as “Instructor of the Year”. He began his library career at UCLA’s Music Library, and then worked at San José Public Library System for 22 years managing library branches and units. Mr. Disher is the author of several library science textbooks, a library trainer, and a professional development speaker for library staff.