The directors: Boggs to Hooton, at examination strength

THE SUCCESSION · THE CURRENT HOLDER DUG TO THE SEAT, AS OF NOVEMBER 2026

The directorship can be carried in an unbroken line from 2017, with two long tenures behind it and one twice-serving interim holding the line between them — and the current holder stands confirmed by the state's own 2026 lists. Stephen J. Boggs is the first director the modern record names: the State Board of Accounts' examination for January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2006 prints his term as running through December 31, 2007, and the leasing corporation that financed the 2002 building was formed in December 2002 with Boggs as its named contact — the director of the Michigan Street library's last years was the director who built its successor. Elizabeth Baiz — the board minutes style her Lisa Baiz; the state's audit prints her formal name — was in office by the January 2015 minutes and directed the library until July 7, 2017. Her assistant director, Amy Schrock, held the seat as interim from July 8 to November 26, 2017, and Stephanie Murphy took it on November 27, 2017; the December 2017 minutes catch her first weeks, and the board welcomed her at an open house on January 14, 2018. Murphy directed until June 28, 2022; Schrock held the seat as interim a second time, from June 29 to September 18, 2022 — the assistant who twice kept the institution between directors is part of this succession in her own right — and Roanna Hooton took office on September 19, 2022. Hooton is the current holder: the Indiana State Library's directors contact list, as of July 31, 2026, names her at this library, as does the State Library's 2026 directory, and her own director's column on the library's site runs from December 2022 forward. Two stretches of the line stand open and are printed as named gaps in the closing ledger, not smoothed over: the founding-era directorship, 1921 to 2004 — the librarians of the Carnegie building's first eighty years have no names in any record this section reached — and the segment between Boggs's scheduled term end in 2007 and Baiz's first appearance in the reached minutes, which the biennial examination series and the board's own minutes archive (2010–2011 forward) stand ready to settle.

Principal sources: State Board of Accounts, Examination Report, January 1, 2005–December 31, 2006 (Boggs; officials schedule); Financial Statement Audit Reports, January 1, 2017–December 31, 2018 (Baiz, Schrock interim, Murphy; officials schedule) and January 1, 2021–December 31, 2022 (Murphy, Schrock interim, Hooton; officials schedule) — each schedule read whole; board minutes 2015–2017 and October 17, 2023 (read whole); Indiana State Library, 2026 Indiana Public Library Directors Contact Information (as of July 31, 2026) and Public Library Directory 2026 (Hooton, the current holder).