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Betsy Bray
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I have worked in the library world for 40 years. I started out as a library page in my high school library (Horace Greeley) in Chappaqua, NY. After getting my MLS from Saint John’s in New York, I became a children’s librarian in Windsor, CT. Later I worked for a Connecticut regional library organization and then as director of the Cora J. Belden Library in Rocky Hill, CT. I have served as President of both the Connecticut Library Association and the New England Library Association. I really believe in keeping professionally active. I worked with Lucy Gangone as her assistant in NELLS 2005. It was a wonderful experience, and that is why I wanted to co-chair NELLS with Cheryl.
I am retiring from the Cora J. Belden Library at the end of June and moving to Cape Cod. I had agreed to participate in NELLS before I decided to retire, and I am happy to honor this commitment.
My passions? Besides libraries? I am a Beatrix Potter expert; I love Frank Lloyd Wright buildings (I have a life list and have visited 30 of them); I relax by taking my black and white Springer spaniel Pete for long walks on the beach. I also have a web page: brayonbeatrix.org.
I look forward to meeting you at Rolling Ridge!
Cheryl Bryan
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I served as president of NELA when the first NELLS was organized in 2002; and served as a mentor at our last NELLS in 2005. Lucy Gangone and I attended the original ALA training on leadership retreats in New Orleans. So my interest and commitment to NELLS has been on-going. I really look forward to meeting and talking to all of you at the beautiful Rolling Ridge Conference Center! It's such a luxury to spend a whole week together talking about libraries and our role in improving library service.
In my job at the Southeastern Massachusetts Library System I consult with our member libraries and their Boards of Trustees, organize the continuing education program and offer training on library administration, long range planning, facilities management, readers advisory services, collection development, advocacy, marketing collections and other topics that are requested by members. I have also taught some of the ALA-APA CPLA classes: Organization and Personnel for SEMLS and Facilities Management for PLA.
My husband and I live in Orleans right about in the middle of cape cod, on a lovely fresh water lake. We have spent the past three years rennovating a house that has been in his family since the 1920's. One of his father's favorite sayings was , "Let the maintenance mount!" so we have inherited quite a lot of work. Other home activites include choral singing with a couple of different groups, gardening, walks in the woods, an "opera club"(which involves pot-luck dinners as much as opera), and of course a book discussion group (which also seems to have incorporated pot-luck dinners!). More information is available at www.cherylbryan.com.
I look forward to getting to know all of you at NELLS!
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