After twenty years as a steady, guiding influence to Calvert Library, Board of Library Trustees President Kip Hine’s official service ended in January of 2014. He served on the library board for ten years, took a year off, and then completed a second ten years of service bringing skills attained during his professional career to the Board. He served as President of the Board for eight years. Mr. Hine also served on the Board of the Southern Maryland Regional Library Association (SMRLA) for about twelve years, many of those as President. Because he is so highly regarded, he was appointed by Governor O’Malley to the Maryland Advisory Council on Libraries (MACL) in 2009, and currently serves as its’ President. His skill in organizational behavior and personnel helped him to oversee the restructuring of SMRLA and the county libraries upon the retirement of long-time Director Kitty Hurrey, who had been the Director of each County system and the Regional. As part of the restructure, each county library hired their first Director. He assisted with the hiring of a new SMRLA Director, Sharan Marshall, in 1995, the appointment of Calvert Library’s first Director, Patricia Hofmann, in 1995, and the hiring of a […]
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