Dr. Gabriel Morley is director of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. Prior to becoming the library director in Atlanta, he was director of the Calcasieu Parish. Dr. Morley was also director of university libraries at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee. Before that, he was the director of a three-county public library system in southwest Mississippi. He began his library career at the Washington Parish (LA) Library System.
In addition to a master’s degree in library science, Dr. Morley holds a doctorate in adult education from The University of Southern Mississippi. He specializes in informal and non-formal learning and has written a book, Building Workforce Literacy in Libraries: Connecting Communities with Opportunities.