Director of the Kirkwood Public Library and Past President of the Missouri Library Association.
Wicky Sleight has been Director of the Kirkwood Public Library since 1994. Prior to that she was Director of the Marshall, Missouri, Public Library. She has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Her professional experience includes work in school, special, and junior college libraries.
Wicky is active in the American Library Association, the Missouri Library Association of which she is the immediate past-President, the Missouri Public Library Directors group, the Kirkwood Special Business District, the Kirkwood Historical Society and the Kirkwood Area Chamber of Commerce. She is past Chair of the Fund-Raising and Financial Section of the Library Administration and Management Association, a division of ALA. She is also a member of the Missouri Association of School Librarians.
She was instrumental in beginning ReadMOre , a Missouri state-wide project in which all Missourians read and discuss the same book. Under her direction, the Kate Chopin Society of North America was founded and is headquartered at Kirkwood Public Library. Each year the society awards the Kate Chopin medal to an important new work of fiction.
Kirkwood Public Library has received the Public Relations Award from the Missouri Library Association and a Carnegie-Whitney Publishing Award from the American Library Association. A trustee at Kirkwood Public Library was awarded “Trustee of the Year” by the Missouri Library Association. The Friends of Kirkwood Public Library has been named the Outstanding Friends Group for 2006 by Friends of Library U.S.A. (FOLUSA). They also won recognition from FOLUSA as 2005 small public library winner for special project publicity and honorable mention for their newsletter.
Wicky was awarded the 2002 Governor’s Humanities Award for Excellence in Public Involvement by the Missouri Humanities Council.
Currently, she is active in the Kirkwood Rotary Club and serves on the board of the Mary Culver Home for the Visually Impaired.
updated 9/20/07
