Services, operations and capital planning for the Newark Public Library will not be impacted while its leaders search for an interim executive director after firing Christian Zabriskie from the library’s top post, its board vice president said Thursday

“All of that is in the very capable hands of the leadership team,” Rosemary Steinbaum, vice president of the Board of Trustees, told NJ Advance Media. “The community and our partners in the community are our first concern.”

Steinbaum said she and others were “deeply engaged” in the search for interim and permanent replacements for Zabriskie, who was named to the $180,000 post in July 2023.

“The leadership team at the library has stepped up in extraordinary ways, collaborating, cooperating with each other, with board, with the staff,” sa

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