New York Public Library’s president, Paul LeClerc, announced Wednesday that he will step down in the summer of 2011, writes The New York Times.

Appointed in 1993, Mr. LeClerc is the longest-serving leader of the New York system, one of the world’s largest libraries. A scholar of French literature and the former president of Hunter College, he guided the library — which did not have a Web site when he took office — into the Internet age.

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