Meet our Librarians
Amy Worthington-Cady, MS
Library Director
 Before joining the Cornwall Library as its Director in 2003, Amy spent twenty years working in community mental health programs in Vermont and Connecticut in the areas of mental health service delivery, hospice, fund raising and grant writing.
In her role as Director of the Cornwall Library her greatest pleasure comes from getting to know the children and helping them to enjoy books. “I want to hear kids talk about what they liked or did not like about a book. One hopes that kids who feel comfortable at the Library will find all libraries places of life-long fulfillment.”
Amy's husband, Scott, is the pastor of the Emanuel Lutheran Church in Manchester, CT and Sharon Hospital’s chaplain. They have two daughters.
To Kill A Mockingbird is one of her favorite books and she loves "a good southern novel," as well as books by author Jane Austen. Antiquing, rug hooking and gardening are favorite pastimes as well as cooking. Amy enjoys Southern cooking as well as trying French and Chinese recipes and adding to her cookbook collection.
Amelia de Neergaard Buck
Children's Librarian
 Amy de Neergaard Buck has been working at the Cornwall Library since 1998. After college she lived in New York where she divided her time between freelance graphic design and painting in her studio.
After moving to Cornwall sixteen years ago, Amy taught art classes and did substitute teaching in Region One before joining the library. Her love of children’s books, her many years of bedtime reading to her two daughters, and her years of working with children, made the role of Children’s Librarian a good fit. Her involvement with the design and building of the new library building was a great thrill, as has been developing the children’s collection and its programs.
Margaret Haske Hare
Part-Time Librarian
 Margaret joined the Library in August 2011 and will be working on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Margaret has a BA in Sociology and Master’s in Gerontology. She has co-written with her husband, Pat Hare, several publications on innovative living arrangements and board- and care-homes. With considerable experience as a licensed nursing home administrator, Margaret is the sole proprietor of Friend of the Family, a consulting service in elder care. Her expertise with seniors will improve the Library’s efforts to serve this important group in Cornwall.
Margaret has a fondness for British writers, especially Anita Brookner, Barbara Pym, Margaret Drabble, and many others.
Lisa Keskinen
Saturday Librarian
 Lisa began her Saturday work in November, 2010, though she was not new to the Library, having volunteered on Thursday mornings for eight months. She covers three Saturdays a month and works a fourth day on Wednesdays.
Lisa majored in Psychology at UCONN and received her Masters in Architecture from North Carolina State University. She has worked on many feasibility studies, design and construction plans, and renovations in Connecticut. Lisa lives in West Cornwall, where she works in her artist’s studio.
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