St. Tammany Library Director Kelly LaRocca, who successfully campaigned to renew the library's funding source in March while navigating a yearslong controversy around the library's collection, plans to leave her position for a job at the state library system at the end of September.

"I'm looking forward to being a private citizen again," LaRocca said in a phone interview on Thursday. "I don't think I'll be having as much involvement in politics — at all."

LaRocca will be an associate state librarian, which she said will provide a "new way to look at libraries for me — from a state perspective."

In the past three years, as the St. Tammany Library system has been enshrouded in controversy over minors' access to items in the collection with sexual and LGBTQ+ themes, LaRocca has tread a n

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