Amy Ford and Jill Hutchison from St. Mary’s County Library have been selected by the Maryland Library Association to attend the eighth Maryland Library Leadership Institute, July 14-18, 2008 in Port Deposit.
“To have two librarians selected from the same system speaks volumes for these two professionals and for our library system,” states Library Director Kathleen Reif who nominated both librarians based on their demonstrated interest in leadership and commitment to library services.
Ford is an adult services librarian at Lexington Park Library. Jill Hutchison is the childrens services librarian at Leonardtown Library. Mary Anne Bowman, Branch Manager of Charlotte Hall library attended the Institute in 2005.
The Institute helped her to recognize she “was not just a manager, but also a leader in the library.” As a result of this training, she “takes personal responsibility to assess the environment, look to the future, embrace change, empower others and take risks to make our library even better than it already is.”