Wichita Public Library

In September 2021, former branch manager and customer service manager Jaime Prothro returned to Wichita to become the city's director of libraries. Prothro was most recently customer experience director for the library system in Pierce County, Wash. Before leaving for the Tacoma area, Prothro had worked for a decade in the Wichita Public Library system under former director Cynthia Berner, who retired a year ago. Prothro was the branch manager at the Evergreen library.

Prothro has a Master of Library Studies degree from Emporia State University. She was the 2011 recipient of the Kansas Library Association Presidential Award for Library Personnel, and five years before that was Kansas Library Association's new professional of the year.