By Jennifer Glickel
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — The New York Public Library is expected to name Manhattan native Anthony W. Marx as its next president, according to reports.
Marx, the current president of Amherst College in Massachusetts, will replace Paul LeClerc, who announced that he was stepping down last November.
"New York is a city that has always taken immigrants and populations of great talent and given them opportunities, and the library has always been in the forefront of that," Marx told the New York Times.
"And the need for that is even greater today, even as the technology forces us to rethink how we deliver that opportunity," he added.
Marx, a political scientist, grew up in Inwood and attended P.S. 98 and the Bronx High School of Science. He received his undergraduate degree at Yale University before getting his M.P.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at Princeton, the Wall Street Journal reported.
For 13 years, prior to heading to Amherst in 2003, Marx was a political science professor at Columbia in Morningside Heights, the paper added.
Marx told the Times that he saw a great opportunity for the NYPL to work together with the city's public schools.
"I think we should be looking to create additional programs that give students pre-school and after-school opportunities," he told the paper, adding, "I look forward to working with Joel Klein and with my colleagues in New York to make that happen."
