Warren County Public Library lists Alex Love, WCPL’s former chief information officer, as acting director following resignations on Friday of its two co-directors.

“At this time, Warren County Public Library does not have anything to add regarding the leadership transition and I’m unable to comment further,” WCPL Marketing Manager Meagan Miles told the Daily News.

The former co-directors, Courtney Stevens and Laura Beth Fox-Ezell, cited personal reasons for the resignations.

They expressed deep gratitude for their staff, the WCPL board and the community.

“(WCPL’s) commitment to equity and access truly makes the world better,” Stevens and Fox-Ezell shared in a statement. “The library is a safe space for so many people and will continue to be.”

The resignations follow years of leadership from each that spearheaded and expanded numerous library programs. Many of these have improved access to resources — particularly those serving as lifelines during times of substantial need.

Stevens, WCPL’s community outreach manager in 2018 before becoming director in 2023, built numerous partnerships for WCPL during the COVID-19 pandemic. One with county schools entailed distributing food and holding pop-up classrooms outdoors, according to the national publication Library Journal, which honored her with its “Community Builders” award last year.

Stevens also helped lead WCPL as it offered programming for 17 days at a Red Cross emergency shelter when the deadly tornadoes struck Bowling Green in December 2021.

Other initiatives under Stevens’ leadership include turning the library into one of Warren County’s two Red Cross Resilience Hubs for disaster preparedness and recovery, and adding a shuttle to transport people in low-income neighborhoods to the library, The Capitol, the farmers market and places such as warming centers and shelters during inclement weather. WCPL under her leadership also added one-room “satellite” library locations to areas such as the autistic residential community LifeWorks and the International Center of Kentucky, and launched the online database “Start Here Warren County” to connect people to needed resources.

Fox-Ezell, who began at WCPL as a student worker in 2013, served as bookmobile librarian, youth & outreach librarian, youth services manager, executive program manager and assistant director before becoming co-director last August.