in non-salaried positions. The Mayor and the Brooklyn Borough President each appoint eleven of the trustees. These appointed trustees elect twelve additional board members to serve. The mayor, New York City Comptroller, Speaker of the City Council and Brooklyn Borough President are ex officio members of the board. All non-ex officio members of the board serve three-year terms. Linda E. Johnson was named president and CEO on August 16, 2011, after having served as the institution's interim executive director since July 1, 2010. She replaced Dionne Mack-Harvin, who served as executive director from March 2007. Mack-Harvin was the first African American woman to lead a major public library system in New York state. Previously, Ginnie Cooper had been the executive director of the BPL since January 2003. Other notable executive directors include Kenneth Duchac, who ran the system from 1970 until his retirement in 1986. Duchac is the father of John Doe, founder and lead singer of seminal 1980s punk band X. List of directors Mary E. Craigie Arthur E. Bostwick (1899–1901) Frank Pierce Hill (1901–1930) Milton J. Ferguson (1930–1949) Francis R. St. John (1949–1963) John Ames Humphry (1964–?) John C Frantz (?) Kenneth Farnham Duchac (1970–1986) Larry Brandwein (1987–1994) Martin Gomez (1995–2002) Ginnie Cooper (2003–2007) Dionne Mack-Harvin (2007–2010) Linda E. Johnson (2011–present) Other New York City library systems The Brooklyn Public Library is one of three separate and independent public library systems in New York City. The other two are the New York Public Library (NYPL), serving the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island, and the Queens Public Library, serving Queens. The Brooklyn and Queens Public Library cards can be accepted by the NYPL, once they are linked to the NYPL system at any NYPL branch. Books Unbanned Initiative In April 2022, the Brooklyn Public Library instituted a new initiative known as Books Unbanned. Going forward, anyone in the United States between the ages of 13 and 21 will be able to apply for a digital library card. Once approved, teens and young adults will be granted free access to the Brooklyn Public Library ebook catalogue. This waives the $50 fee typically required by the Brooklyn Public Library for out-of-state applicants. According to a spokesperson for the Brooklyn Public Library, this offering is intended to counteract the “increasingly coordinated and effective effort to remove books tackling a wide range of topics from library shelves.” The Brooklyn Public Library has cited