Erin Christmas is the Library Director for the City's public library system.
Erin has over 10 years of professional library experience. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Occidental College and a Master of Library Information Science from San Jose State University.
Before being named Library Director for Riverside Public Library in September 2018, Erin was the Interim Library Director from November 2017 and Assistant Library Director from July 2016.
Prior to working for Riverside Public Library, Erin worked for Santa Clarita Public Library, San Bernardino County Public Library and the University of California, Riverside Science Library (now Orbach Science Library). In Santa Clarita, Erin was most recently the Assistant Library Director and Branch Manager of the Old Town Newhall Library.
As Library Director for Riverside, Erin led the 2018-2020 Riverside Reads campaign, the Toy Lending Library project, and the CENIC upgrade projects for the Riverside Public Library. Erin is active in the California Library Association and was the Chair of Local Arrangements for the 2017 CLA Annual Conference hosted in Riverside. She has an entry on romance fiction in public libraries that will publish this month in the Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction and writes book reviews for United for Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
