Staff Biographies

Lisa, Library Assistant I

Lisa has been at the Norfolk Public Library since March of 2008, but she has worked part-time in summer recreation since May of 2000.  Besides the Library, she is also the manager of the city's swimming pools and the Recreation Leader for the City Recreation Baseball and Softball programs.  Lisa loves watching sports especially the Huskers and the New York Yankees!!!

Gloria, Library Assistant II

Gloria is a graduate of the University of Nebraska—Lincoln.  After spending a few years in the Education field, she moved onward and upward and joined the staff of Norfolk Public Library in 1990. She is currently working primarily in the Tech. Services Department, and is responsible for acquisitions in the books on CD adult collection.  Reading is her favorite pastime and she enjoys both fiction and nonfiction, especially anything related to the American Civil War. She is a fan of the Nebraska football team, and being a grandparent!

Mike, Director

Mike has been at the Norfolk Public Library since July of 2009.   He earned a master's degree in Public Administration in 2009 and a master's degree in Library Science in 2012.  He says his favorite part of working in the library is interacting with patrons. When he has time for personal reading he prefers non-fiction.

When he is not at work, Mike tries to spend as much time in the great outdoors as possible.  He enjoys running and riding his bike on the Cowboy Trail with his wife Sarah.  He is also an avid fisherman and hunter.  He has two dogs (a Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Raj and a mixed breed named Simon) that he takes with him everywhere.

Lenaya, Outreach Coordinator

Doug, Circulation Supervisor

Doug was born long ago in Norfolk, NE.  He graduated high school from Omaha Central and went on to earn an AA degree in business management while living in San Diego, CA.  Doug has been working in the library for more than 20 years.  He says he likes working in the library for 3 reasons: #1 He likes to work with the public;  #2 He still (even at his old age) enjoys ordering music for the library; and  #3  He enjoys working with the staff.

Doug is responsible for ordering a large portion of the music available at the library.  You can E-mail him with music suggestions at: dcollier@ci.norfolk.ne.us

Karen, Librarian I & Youth Services

Karen is an avid reader of history, biography, historical fiction, and youth literature.  Her special interests, besides reading, include travel, family history, and knitting.  She loves bringing people and good books together.

Amy, Reference Assistant

Amy has worked at the Norfolk Public Library since May of 2005.  She works in the Reference Department and enjoys reading biographies and non-fiction.

Tom, Security Monitor/Clerk

Lynn, Secretary I

Lynn is the secretary for the Norfolk Public Library, Library Board, and Library Foundation.  She has been employed at Norfolk Public Library for eight years.  She graduated in May of 2011 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Library Science from UNO.

Reference/Systems Assistant

Judy Hilkemann is the current Reference/Outreach Supervisor at the Norfolk Public Library.  She began working at the library in 1981 as the Madison County Bookmobile librarian and later was the Interlibrary Loan Librarian for both public and school libraries in a 13-county area.  She has enjoyed all three of the jobs that she has held but particularly enjoyed working with the rural school students and teachers on the Bookmobile.  In her opinion, the single biggest change in library services during the years has been the Internet and technology which enables library services to be available to customers 24/7.

Jane, Library Assistant

Jane has been a Library Assistant in the Circulation Department for over 19 years, starting out as a part time employee. Jane handles much of the paperwork pertaining to the Circulation of library materials in addition to managing the Travelpack and paperback book collections. Her other responsibilities include the check in of periodicals and maintenance of the current periodicals area of the library. She also sorts all materials donated to the library and distributes incoming mail. 

Nikki, Library Assistant I

Nikki has worked for the Norfolk Public Library for 10 years.  She started as a library page, then became a Library Assisstant I.  She enjoys reading Historical Christian Fiction and Henry and Mudge books by Cynthia Rylant.

Janet, Library Assistant

Janet has been employed as a library assistant at the Norfolk Public Library since 2004.  She works in circulation and book processing.  Janet also teaches English at Northeast Community College and is a member of the Norfolk FreeLance Writers Club and the Tuesday Night Book Discussion Group.

Anne, Reference Assistant

Anne has been employed with the City of Norfolk since April 1994, first at the Norfolk Police Division and at the library since January 2008.  Her current responsibilities are working in the reference department, helping individuals locate books, working on the computers, genealogy and answering questions from patrons.  In her free time, Anne enjoys following her children in athletics at college, boating, golfing, traveling and throwing in reading when she has time.  Anne enjoys reading about the Kings and Queens during the 1700 & 1800’s and Nicholas Sparks is her favorite fiction author.

Marci, Library Technician I & Youth Services

Marci began working at the Norfolk Public Library in 1983.  She is the Assistant Youth Services Librarian, the Interlibrary Loan Librarian and also assists with circulation, reference, and adult fiction collection development.  Marci is an avid reader, she like people, and loves book groups, so she considers working at the library her ideal career.

 Sally, Librarian I

Sally has been a Norfolk Public Library employee for about 26 years.  Most of her time is spent in Technical Services cataloging and classifying books and materials.  This means trying to place an item in a so called "logical" Dewey Decimal classification number with (hopefully) pertinent descriptive subjects.

Sally and her husband Russ share four wonderful children and have been blessed with seven beautiful grandchildren (so far)! 

Marge, Library Technician

Marge joined the Norfolk Public Library staff in June of 1990 as a cataloger.  She is originally from Madison, Nebraska, but has lived in Norfolk since 1953.  She is a dog lover and the proud (most of the time!) owner of a Dandie Dinmont Terrier.   She loves to read and especially enjoys mysteries and psychological thrillers.