PASADENA, Calif.—After completing a nationwide recruitment process, City Manager Miguel Márquez has announced the appointment of Tim McDonald as the new director of Pasadena’s Department of Libraries & Information Services. McDonald has been with the City of Pasadena since 2016 and has served as acting director since February 2022. McDonald will oversee a department that includes 10 branch locations, collectively circulating over 1.2 million library books, DVDs and other resources per year to the community. He will lead 99 full-time employees and direct an annual budget of about $16.5 million. With more than...