I like working up front at the circulation desk sometimes. This position has offered her the opportunity to have variety in her days. “We have great crowds for history events, but the programming is always driven by the customers in what they are interested in and what they want,” she said. I order all the adult materials and the adult programming,” she said.Ĭambier has offered diverse programming for the adult patrons from chair yoga and local history lectures on historical homes of Youngstown’s North Side to the Cookbook Club. “This seemed like the epitome of what I wanted to do. I told her, ‘Someday, I want to be a branch manager,'” Cambier said.Īll her hard work paid off and that goal became reality in March 2015 when she became Liberty branch manager. She and I were outside taking a walk during our lunch. “I was talking to a co-worker from the finance department. While working there, Cambier shared with a colleague her ultimate career plan. I was still working in technical services at the library,” she said. It took two years to complete, and I finished in 2010. “I got a scholarship in 2008 and started the online program through Clarion University. While working there, Cambier decided to advance her education and get her Library Science degree. I processed, cataloged and classified media,” she said.

“I got a job at the downtown Warren Trumbull County Public Library in the technical services department. In 2007, she had the opportunity to move back to the area. “I realized I liked this and wanted to work in the library field,” Cambier said. In Orrville, she worked as the circulation manager. She noted that Ohioans are blessed because the state funds libraries exceedingly well.

I was part of the transition into digitizing the card catalog so everything could be looked up on computers,” she said. They received an Ohio Library grant (LSTA). “I was working at an elementary school library. One of Cambier’s more interesting projects was to help the school library upgrade to technology. “I worked at Canton City School Library and the Massillon Library and that’s how I ended up in public libraries,” Cambier said. Cambier looked for an additional job to supplement her income and her love of reading came to mind with a library position opening. The program was financially stable until grant money began to be cut. “I was in the process of a divorce and I was working for Canton City Schools teaching at the Even Start program,” she said. The Even Start program is for economically-challenged young children and parents to improve literacy and academics. I also worked briefly for Jobs for Ohio Graduates in Akron, and I was taught the parenting component of the Even Start program,” she said. “I worked six years at a halfway house for male adult felons.

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