Peter has been Library Director and CEO of the
Sacramento Public Library Authority since January 2022. The Authority is a Joint Powers Authority serving Sacramento County and the cities of Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Galt, Isleton, Rancho Cordova,
and Sacramento.
- Digital checkouts have passed 5 million, and in-person visits reached 2.34
million fiscal year to date as of June 2026, continuing a multi-year rise in both.
- A systemwide rebrand and website relaunch in November 2025 earned a CAPIO EPIC
Award in 2026. Library Journal named the library's marketing team its 2026 Marketer of the Year.
- In February 2025 the library partnered with Planned Parenthood Mar Monte to put
Sexual Health Resource Cabinets, including free pregnancy tests, in 12 libraries, with 14 more planned. The Urban Libraries Council lists it among its 2025 Innovations.
- In 2026 the Urban Libraries Council selected the
Authority for its Journalists in the Library initiative, one of eight libraries nationally and one of two in California, in partnership with PBS KVIE.
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"Libraries can learn from retail without becoming retail."
Peter Coyl on library designContributor, Future Scenarios: Library Space & Design, Urban Libraries Council, September 2026
"We didn't feel like it represented the library and how our community uses the library."
Peter Coyl on retiring the library's old logoLibrary Journal, October 5, 2026
Earlier leadership
Montclair Public Library, New Jersey · Library Director, 2017 to 2021
Led one of New Jersey's busiest library systems. Launched an electric
Tuk-Tuk mobile library, led the library's 125th anniversary, and restored its 1752 Azariah Crane land deed. Kept services running through the COVID-19 pandemic under significant funding
constraints.
Dallas Public Library · Assistant Branch Manager, Branch Manager, and District Manager, 2011 to 2017
Included the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library.
Peter
holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Drexel University and a Bachelor of Science in Public Administration and Public Policy from Oakland University.
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