The Edgartown Public Library has a new director.

Jill Hughes, the former executive director of the Connecticut Library Consortium, will start the job June 25. She is replacing former director Felicia Cheney, who announced that she was resigning last December.

Ms. Hughes was introduced to the board of selectmen Monday. After the meeting she said that she and her husband, frequent Vineyard visitors, had wanted to live on the Island, and she has family who are year-round residents.

“It’s my dream job,” she said. “It is extremely exciting.”

Ms. Hughes comes on board at a time of transition for the library: in April, the town approved spending $5 million on a new library located on the site of the old Edgartown school.

The Edgartown library has “great staff and a great collection,” she said. “We just don’t have the space.”

In her previous job, she added, she worked with 850 libraries and “had the chance to see how libraries work all over.” When it comes to the Edgartown library, despite space constraints, “this library is bustling,” she said. “It’s really amazing how well used and how loved it is.”

With the new facility, the library will offer meeting space and be more accessible to the community, she said. “We can serve everybody in the community from all walks of life.”