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After the Mentor: Building Your Tribe
Location: Salon C - 4/24/26, 3:00 PM - 4/24/26, 3:50 PM (America/Chicago) (50 minutes)
Mary Kay Emmrich & the CAN Committee
Migration Specialist at Missouri Evergreen Consortium
Mary Kay Emmrich & the CAN Committee
Migration Specialist at Missouri Evergreen Consortium
Lee Ann Santee is the current Consortium Assistance Network Committee Chair and is
also a member of the Circulation Committee. She has worked for the Barry-Lawrence
Regional Library in Southwest Missouri for 24 years, beginning as a Youth Services
librarian at the Monett Branch and later transitioning to be the Technology Coordinator
for the library system.

Mary Kay Emmrich is Missouri Evergreen’s Migration Consultant, bringing 40+ years of
library experience as a cataloguer, branch manager, and library director to the
consortium. Her tribe includes librarians in Virginia, Indiana, Oregon, and Idaho, CPS
case managers and a retired pharmacist.
Emmrich only takes headshots while wearing sunglasses or hats.

Learn how to create a personal support system in Missouri Evergreen through
networking, researching, and sharing. This session will focus on resources and
relationships to help both newly migrated and seasoned Directors, along with IT
personnel and department managers, as they create their Evergreen tribes.

Presenters: Lee Ann Santee, Technology Coordinator, Barry-Lawrence Regional Library
Mary K. Emmrich, Migration Consultant, Missouri Evergreen Consortium

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