District Team
June Houghtaling
District Consultant
June Houghtaling is the Consultant for the North Central Library District. June provides individual consulting on a wide range of library issues, including strategic planning, policy making, orientation for new directors, and board development among others. With the guidance of administration and members of the district, June plans continuing education workshops. She serves on Pennsylvania Library Association committees.
Contact June via email: jhoughtaling@jvbrown.edu or phone 570-326-0536, ext. 196.
Nina White
Youth Services Consultant
Nina White is the Youth Services Consultant for the District. Nina provides consultation to member libraries in the area of baby, toddler, youth, tween and teen programs, services and collections. Nina is a member of the Pennsylvania One Book Committee, the Best Practices Award committee and the Early Childhood Steering Committee.
Contact Nina via email: nwhite@jvbrown.edu or phone 570-326-0536, ext. 145.
Amy C. Resh
District Administrator
Amy C. Resh is the Chief Executive Officer & Director of the James V. Brown Library and Administrator for the North Central Library District, headquartered at James V. Brown Library. Under her leadership, the district team provides quality service to 44 libraries in the North Central Library District.
Contact Amy via email: aresh@jvbrown.edu or phone 570-326-0536, ext. 102.
Kristin Caringi
Chief Financial Officer of the James V. Brown Library
Kristin Caringi is the Chief Financial Officer of the James V. Brown Library and assists member libraries with financial questions, planning, and 5-year projections.
Contact Kristin via email: kcaringi@jvbrown.edu or call 570-326-0536, ext. 101.
Robbin Degeratu
Assistant Director of the James V. Brown Library
Robbin Degeratu is Assistant Director for the James V. Brown Library and serves as reference librarian for the District. Robbin is available to answer tough reference questions and support local history collections.
Contact Robbin via email: rdegeratu@jvbrown.edu or phone 570-326-0536, ext. 106.
Jennifer Heimbach
Interlibrary Loan
Jennifer Heimbach is the Technical Services Assistant in charge of interlibrary loan at James V. Brown Library. Jen processes all interlibrary loan requests from district members. Jen loans items from the James V. Brown Library’s collection, Lycoming County Library System collections, through AccessPA’s Shareit System and through OCLC (WorldCat) for those hard to find items.
Contact Jen via email at jheimbach@jvbrown.edu or call 570-326-0536, ext. 194.
Douglas Harkness
Information Technology Professional
Doug Harkness is the Information Technology Professional for the James V. Brown Library and serves the libraries in the North Central Library District. Doug is available for consultation, technology mapping and inventory, troubleshooting, and maintenance and repair.
Contact Doug via email at it.ncld@jvbrown.edu or call 570-326-0536, ext 190.
Wendy Durant
Overdrive Services
Wendy Durant is the Audio-Visual Specialist for the James V. Brown Library and develops the eBranch2Go collection through Overdrive. Wendy also provides technical assistance and training in the use of Overdrive and compiles monthly statistics for members.
Contact Wendy via email: wdurant@jvbrown.edu, or phone 570-326-0536, ext. 122.
Jamie Mahoney
Graphic Artist
Jamie Mahoney is the Graphic Artist for the James V. Brown Library and provides graphic arts/marketing assistance for district member libraries.
Contact Jamie via email: jmahoney@jvbrown.edu or phone 570-326-0536, ext. 105.
Fill out a marketing request here: https://northcentrallibraries.org/marketing/