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Brooks Memorial Library Jerry Carbone's leadership has been recognized with the Vermont Library Association's 2008 Sarah Hagar Award, given yearly to a librarian in the state who has provided outstanding service.
A 30-year veteran librarian at Brooks and director since 1993 who directs a thriving, multi-faceted program in times when library and information technologies are undergoing tremendous change, Carbone swiftly removes himself from the focus when discussing the award.
At a surprise awards ceremony at the Vermont Library Conference in Burlington in May, VLA President Barbara Doyle-Wilch praised Carbone as a “practical visionary” and a role model for other librarians. A contingent from Brattleboro, including Brattleboro friends, Brooks Memorial Library trustees and staff members, his wife Kathleen Maisto, and Town Manager Barbara Sondag, were on hand to see Carbone honored.
“I was totally surprised and humbled by it,” Carbone says. “I'm just the expression of my staff, my trustees, the town. I feel like a surfer, riding the wave. It's really like an ensemble,” he says.
A new addition from a century past, will join the Brattleboro scene on June 29, when the Estey Organ Museum, in the Engine House Gallery in the Estey Organ Company Factory complex at 108 Birge St., will open its doors after several years of planning. The museum will...
Within two minutes of conversation, Nancy Clingan is able to match people with social services many miles down the Connecticut River. A quick laugh, and she says, “I'm a huge resource person, and I know people in the services. I have my Rolodex in my mind.” The Saxtons River...
