Perhaps a prerequisite for such a position, the self-professed avid reader says she has a huge love of books and story-telling.
But Ms Boyle has far more experience in the industry than simply enjoying words and how they’re put together.
She comes straight from her previous role as the High Country Library Network’s general manager; however, her history with working in libraries and museums extends back to her high-school days.
“I volunteered at the local museum (the old Albury library museum on the Murray River that was known as The Turk’s Head) and did my work experience there, which was really cool,” Ms Boyle said.
“They had a traineeship come up, so I did that and I was there for a couple more years.”
From story time to team programming and collection buying, to cataloguing, organising exhibitions and recording oral histories, Ms Boyle dipped her toes into many library and museum tasks as she gained her qualification in museum and gallery management.
“I did a lot of work with Bonegilla Heritage, interviewing people who had been through that (life at the migrant centre) and all those sorts of things,” she said.
She went on to further study, qualifying as a library technician and gaining an advanced diploma in art therapy.
“My previous role with High Country (Library Network) was really similar, but this is bigger,” Ms Boyle said.
“I grew up in regional Queensland and it's a very similar kind of environment, which is kind of cool, you know how special that is.”
Between her early days at Albury and her most recent role, making her home at Myrtleford, Ms Boyle worked with an agency in Australia’s capital, which looked after Commonwealth assets, such as the Old Parliament House rose garden, Anzac Parade, Blundells Cottage and the National Carillon.
After that, she spent time at the Wodonga Library before heading to the Surf Coast for a stint at the Torquay Visitor Information Centre, which incorporates the Australian National Surfing Museum.
From there, Ms Boyle moved to the Hepburn Shire and then to work for the National Trust of Australia at the Australian Museums and Galleries Association in the north-east of Victoria, where she would travel around and teach museum workers the art of cataloguing.
In her first 11 days in her new role, she had visited all 11 libraries under the Goulburn Valley Libraries umbrella.
“Every branch has got its own personality,” she said.
“And that's one of those special things about the little local libraries, they've got that role within the community and you have to learn what that is.”
Ms Boyle said she had some ideas brewing, but it was early days.
The libraries she now oversees have had a big 18 months transitioning to an ‘open library’ format, where self-service access is available to approved library members outside normal staffed hours.
And things are not looking to slow down any time soon.
“I think we're going to have a pretty busy year actually,” Ms Boyle said.
“We'll be transitioning organisationally from a corporation to a not-for-profit because the Local Government Act dictates that we can't have library corporations anymore.
“It won't really impact anything front-facing — it won't really impact a lot — but it’s a really cool opportunity.”
Above all, Ms Boyle said learning about the communities was a priority.
“We will get all this lovely serious work done and then we can see where we're going, because we'll also have our library plan going out as well,” she said.
“So we’ll want a lot of public consultation on that one.
“There’s nothing better than hearing what the public actually want.”
As Ms Boyle familiarises herself with GV Libraries’ specific collections, she recognises the whole industry’s “amazing platforms and resources”.
“I think that’s one of the things I really like about libraries, is that no matter what, however they evolve, because they are continually evolving, is that we’ve still got that human core of storytelling,” she said.
“We can be all these different things for all the different communities, but it all comes down to the fact that we’re humans and humans love storytelling.
“And I think that’s a really cool cultural thing to celebrate.”
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