The Librarians

   

AMY WORTHINGTON-CADY

Before joining the Cornwall Free Library as its Director in 2003, Amy spent twenty years working in community mental health programs in Vermont and Connecticut in the areas of mental health service delivery, hospice, fund raising and grant writing.

In her role as Director of the Cornwall Free Library her greatest pleasure comes from getting to know the children and helping them to enjoy books. “I want to hear kids talk about what they liked or did not like about a book.  One hopes that kids who feel comfortable at the Library will find all libraries places of life-long fulfillment.”   

   
In the fall of 2004, Amy took a Foundations of Librarianship course at SCSU.  She continues to take workshops and s eminars in librarianship offered by Simmons College and the CT State Library.
   
Amy's husband, Scott, is the pastor of the Emanuel Lutheran Church in Mansfield, CT and Sharon Hospital’s chaplain. They have two daughters.   

  
To Kill A Mockingbird is one of her favorite books and she loves "a good southern novel." Antiquing, rug hooking and gardening are favorite pastimes as well as cooking. Amy enjoys Southern cooking as well as trying French and Chinese recipes and adding to her cook book collection.
 

AMY BUCK
Amy de Neergaard Buck has been working at the Cornwall Library since 1999. After college she worked in New York as a graphic designer for various magazines while painting in her studio in her spare time.

She and her family moved to Cornwall twelve years ago, and Amy taught art classes and did substitute teaching in Region One before joining the library. Her love of children’s books, her many years of bedtime reading to her two daughters, and her years of working with children, made the role of Children’s Librarian a good fit. Her involvement with the design and building of the new library building was a great thrill, as has been developing the children’s collection and its programs. Amy continues to balance her library work with her art practice, and loves hiking and paddling in the hills and waterways of our beautiful NW corner.

 

MARJORIE PETTERSEN

Marjorie Pettersen, a library Media Specialist at East School in Torrington, has recently joined the staff at the library. She has a degree in Library science from SCSU and has also worked at the Motensen Libraryof the University of Hartford, and the Silas Bronson Library in Waterbury. She enjoys gardening, and of course, reading!