Thank You, Sheila

Sheila McCormick, Director of the Hatfield Public Library since 2001, is the Director of the Sunderland Public Library as of February 23, 2009.

Sheila has done an amazing amount of work for HPL, especially in the last two years. While members of the Board of Trustees helped, Sheila was the person who wrote the grant proposal which resulted in obtaining $40,000 from the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners for a Planning and Design project. (As a stipulation for receiving the $40,000, HPL was required to raise an additional $20,000, which it did.)

Sheila helped to select the members of LFNAC - the Library Facilities Needs Assessment Committee - to implement the grant. Since November of 2007, LFNAC has been meeting regularly and Sheila attended every meeting.

It was Sheila who wrote the Builing Program, the document that is currently guiding LFNAC and architect Stephen Hale in choosing a location for the new, improved Hatfield Public Libraryand designing the actual building.

Thank you, Sheila, for all of your hard work. Please be sure to visit us in a few years (although we hope to see you sooner) when you can see the beautiful new library that you helped create for Hatfield.