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Potsdam native will take over as library director in September

Posted 8/17/16

POTSDAM -- The Potsdam Public Library will have a Potsdam-area native as director as of September. Annie Chase has been offered the position by the library Board of Trustees. She will assume the …

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Potsdam native will take over as library director in September

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POTSDAM -- The Potsdam Public Library will have a Potsdam-area native as director as of September.

Annie Chase has been offered the position by the library Board of Trustees. She will assume the directorship in September, according to a press release from the library.

Chase, who now lives in Wheat Ridge, Colo., was raised in the Potsdam area and attended Potsdam High School.

She earned her bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University, majoring in English writing and studying several foreign languages. She obtained a law degree from the University of Buffalo and later received a master of library science degree from the University at Buffalo School of Informatics.

Chase worked as a foreign and comparative law librarian at the University of Michigan Law Library before serving as the library manager at the Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn Law firm, in the Detroit area. For the past several years, she has been employed as a research attorney for Greenberg Traurig, a firm with offices around the world.

Chase and her husband, Doug, have two children, 3-year-old Eleanor and 7-year-old Henry.

In addition to librarianship and law, her interests include music, foreign languages, and adventurous cooking.

She said she is anxious to return to the North Country and that “there is nowhere in the world I’d rather be in October than in St. Lawrence County.”