New Library Director Joins DBRL Team

Margaret Conroy

We welcome Margaret Conroy as Daniel Boone Regional Library’s new director. She replaces Melissa Carr who retired January 15, 2018.

Margaret brings a lot of library experience to the job. She has spent her library career in Missouri in a variety of leadership positions. Most recently, she was the assistant director of the St. Charles City-County Library District in St. Charles, Missouri. Before that, she served as the Missouri State Librarian (2006–2013), was the director at Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City and, earlier, at the Little Dixie Regional Library in Moberly.  She earned a master’s degree in library and information science from Dominican University, a master’s in public administration from the University of Missouri, and a bachelor’s degree in humanities interdisciplinary studies from Quincy University. Margaret is a member of the American Library Association, the Public Library Association and the Missouri Library Association, for which she served as president in 2001.