Boston Public Library president to resign following missing artwork scandal
Two weeks after police announced that two pieces of artwork, a Dürer engraving and a Rembrandt sketch, had vanished from the Boston Public Library, the library’s president, Amy E. Ryan, announced her resignation.
Ryan’s resignation will become effective July 3.
“I am choosing to step aside at this time to allow the work of the Boston Public Library to continue without distraction,’’ she said in a statement.
Her resignation comes just hours after a meeting with the library’s board of trustees where she insisted she would not step down, according to The Boston Globe. During the meeting, she announced an action plan to take an accelerated inventory of the library’s collection. A city-commissioned audit released in May revealed the library does not have a complete inventory and uses guesses to estimate its current holdings.
Ryan became the library’s president eight years ago after moving from Minnesota.
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