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Margaret Conroy

Margaret Conroy has been Missouri State Librarian since April 2006. Prior to serving as State Librarian, Margaret spent 6 years as director of Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City and 6 years at Little Dixie Regional Libraries based in Moberly. Before becoming a public library director, she worked as a cataloger at Quincy (Ill.) Public Library; as a consultant for a regional library system in Illinois, and on a grant project cataloging historical newspapers at the University of Missouri. 


Margaret serves on boards of several state and national library organizations and is currently Secretary of COSLA (Chief Officers of State Library Agencies). Conroy has a BA in Humanities from Quincy University, a Master of Library Science from Dominican University, River Forest IL and a Master of Public Administration, University of Missouri, Columbia. She loves nature, camping and is a gardener, birdwatcher, and erstwhile fisherman. She is learning to play tennis. 

Civic involvement includes the Jefferson City Rotary Club (past-president), Ashland Optimists (currently Foundation manager), River City Habitat for Humanity Family Selection Committee, and Central Missouri Master Gardeners.

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