Librarian makes her way into new job — that is what the leadership thought when it hired Catherine Greene to take over the role of branch manager at the La Jolla/Riford Branch Library, 7555 Draper Ave. “When I found out I was selected I literally jumped up and down, and since it was going to be a couple of weeks before the announcement was made public, I could tell my children — but they were the best possible audience,” Greene said. “They know me pretty well and they suspected the match was going to be a good one, and I knew it would be a fabulous one and I could not be happier.” Greene, who holds a bachelor of arts in economics from George Washington University and a library of science degree from Columbia University in New York, formerly worked as the branch manager of the Mountain View/Beckwourth Branch Library. “I hope to continue to enhance the outstanding services collection already begun here by my predecessors, and that they are so passionately supported by the Friends of La Jolla Library,” she said. “My goals will expand as I reacquaint myself with the community’s demographics and needs, work with the branch’s collection and experience the changes that La Jollans go through, just as all communities do.” As a lifelong book aficionado, the bibliophile decided early on that was what she wanted to do and encouraged all she met to read. Later she dedicated herself to the public service of librarianship. “When I was 8 years old, I asked for and received a rubber-date stamp and ink pad … that’s a real clue as to how nerdy I was,” Greene said. “I grew up in farming country, and during the summers I would pack my lunch in the morning and ride my bike three miles to the nearest library and then hang out at the park next door – all day long.” Greene also worked as head librarian at La Jolla Country Day School, assistant director at the Peabody Institute Library in Massachusetts, and as a government securities economist at Merrill Lynch. Locally she has nearly 20 years of experience in the San Diego Public Library.   “In the interim, having studied economics for a number of years and working down on Wall Street, I confess to having had fantasies of being the first woman to buy a seat on the NYSE, or the first woman member of the Fed,” she said. “But public librarianship is way more seductive than any of that ever was, at least to me personally.” For information see www.sandiegolibrary.org.