Library Staff
Our staff welcomes you to the Minot-Sleeper Library and invites you to stop by the main circulation desk. We are ready to help you find the perfect book, work on a research project, or get your devices set up with e-books, downloadable audiobooks and magazines, and streaming video. Thank you for making us a part of your community!
Our staff welcomes you to the Minot-Sleeper Library and invites you to stop by the main circulation desk. We are ready to help you find the perfect book, work on a research project, or get your devices set up with e-books, downloadable audiobooks and magazines, and streaming video. Thank you for making us a part of your community!
Patty
Library Director and Head of Adult Services
Patty holds an MLIS from University of South Florida, and a BA in Sociology from Bridgewater State University. She lives in a village in the White Mountains with her husband of 29 years, one of her two young-adult sons, and her cats. She has been a librarian in two different states; she started as a reference assistant and moved up to Reference Librarian and then onto Assistant Director & Head of Adult Programming before coming to Bristol to be our Library Director. She loves hiking the White Mountains, cooking, reading , gardening, birdwatching, kayaking, and visiting art museums.
Library Director and Head of Adult Services
Patty holds an MLIS from University of South Florida, and a BA in Sociology from Bridgewater State University. She lives in a village in the White Mountains with her husband of 29 years, one of her two young-adult sons, and her cats. She has been a librarian in two different states; she started as a reference assistant and moved up to Reference Librarian and then onto Assistant Director & Head of Adult Programming before coming to Bristol to be our Library Director. She loves hiking the White Mountains, cooking, reading , gardening, birdwatching, kayaking, and visiting art museums.
Cindy
ILL/Circulation Librarian
Cindy has worked at Minot-Sleeper Library since 2002. She enjoys working with all the wonderful people that come into the library. When not at the library, Cindy enjoys music, old movies, quilting and spending time with her family. She loves the sense of community that exists at the library. Cindy is the proud grandmother of three amazing grandsons.
Martha
Children's Librarian
Growing up in a variety of places, Martha’s family finally settled in beautiful New Hampshire. After graduating with an art degree from Plymouth State College, Martha owned a small business called Fresh From the Kiln Pottery. She worked at the Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith for almost 30 years. She and her birds (Pepe the Quaker parrot and Skylar the canary) moved to Bristol about 5 years ago, where she enjoys helping in the downtown gardens and watercolor painting in her free time.
Fiona
Technical Services Librarian
Fiona holds a B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she worked in the Williston Academic Library all four years, at the circulation desk first as an assistant and then as a supervisor. She loves to read, all things crafting, and always has a creative project going. She has three cats, two dogs, and some goats at home in Hill. Fiona grew up as a patron of the Minot-Sleeper Library and always enjoyed our collection of classic films and musicals. She looks forward to serving the community as part of the library staff, and to working toward earning her MLIS degree in the future.
Fiona
Technical Services Librarian
Fiona holds a B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she worked in the Williston Academic Library all four years, at the circulation desk first as an assistant and then as a supervisor. She loves to read, all things crafting, and always has a creative project going. She has three cats, two dogs, and some goats at home in Hill. Fiona grew up as a patron of the Minot-Sleeper Library and always enjoyed our collection of classic films and musicals. She looks forward to serving the community as part of the library staff, and to working toward earning her MLIS degree in the future.
Kate
Circulation Assistant
Kate holds a B.A. in Communication Media from Assumption University in Massachusetts. She was employed as an executive assistant in Boston for fifteen years. Kate has been a visitor to Bristol since childhood and has lived here full time for four years. She has one cat, named Bridey, and loves to read, explore new restaurants, and travel to her favorite island, Nantucket.
Circulation Assistant
Kate holds a B.A. in Communication Media from Assumption University in Massachusetts. She was employed as an executive assistant in Boston for fifteen years. Kate has been a visitor to Bristol since childhood and has lived here full time for four years. She has one cat, named Bridey, and loves to read, explore new restaurants, and travel to her favorite island, Nantucket.
Board of Trustees
Trustees of the Minot-Sleeper Library meet on the fourth Thursday of the month at 5pm at the library to conduct business of the library. Special meetings may be scheduled at other times as may be necessary. All meetings are open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
Members
Karen Boyd, Chair
Patricia Durgin, Vice Chair
Suzanne Nieman, Secretary
Paul Regan, Treasurer
Scott Thompson
Lucille Keegan
Nancy Spears
Anita Avery
Dorothy Prive
Contact the Minot-Sleeper Library Board of Trustees by emailing [email protected]
Trustee Bylaws (Last updated 8/12/2021)
Minot-Sleeper Library Strategic Plan 2019-2022
Members of the Minot-Sleeper Library Board of Trustees are members of the New Hampshire Library Trustee's Association.
Members
Karen Boyd, Chair
Patricia Durgin, Vice Chair
Suzanne Nieman, Secretary
Paul Regan, Treasurer
Scott Thompson
Lucille Keegan
Nancy Spears
Anita Avery
Dorothy Prive
Contact the Minot-Sleeper Library Board of Trustees by emailing [email protected]
Trustee Bylaws (Last updated 8/12/2021)
Minot-Sleeper Library Strategic Plan 2019-2022
Members of the Minot-Sleeper Library Board of Trustees are members of the New Hampshire Library Trustee's Association.
NH Library Trustee's Association