The board for the Coquitlam Public Library will look for a new trustee after a member quit last month.
On Wednesday, Coquitlam city clerk Jay Gilbert said the municipality - which appoints trustees but stays at an arm's length from the library board - received a letter of resignation from trustee Ann Carlsen last month.
However, due to privacy concerns, Gilbert was only able to say she had left on a "personnel-related issue."
A call to Carlsen was not returned by The Tri-City News' print deadline yesterday.
Library board chairperson Jack Trumley confirmed Carlsen's departure but declined to comment further.
Her position "is currently vacant. It will have to be filled," he said, noting the matter hasn't come up before the library board yet.
Coun. Terry O'Neill, a trustee, also declined to comment, saying Trumley is the spokesperson for the library board, which is now made up of trustees Trumley, Lance Gueck, Alice Hale, Bertha Rojas, Ron Lee and John J.J. McCullough.
Meanwhile, Trumley is keeping mum on the reasons for library director Rhiann Piprell's sudden exit.
Last month, he told The News the matter is "strictly confidential between the library and Ms. Piprell" and the board would be recruiting a new director.
In the interim, deputy director Silvana Harwood is filling in the top job and overseeing the city's two library branches on Pinetree Way and Poirier Street.
Piprell, who offered no comment to The News last month, was appointed as deputy director of the Coquitlam Library in September 2003 and, a few years later, replaced director Karen Harrison.
