LaGrange native named Caribou librarian

    CARIBOU — Former reference librarian at Presque Isle’s Turner Memorial Library, Lisa Neal Shaw, was recently hired to be the new director at the Caribou Public Library.
    Shaw is slated to step in at the library on Tuesday, Sept. 2; Assistant City Manager Tony Mazzucco had been acting as the interim director since Diane DuBois retired in June.

    City Manager Austin Bleess thinks that Shaw will have a positive effect on the library.
    “I think Lisa is going to help us transform the library into a 21st century library,” he said on Tuesday, mentioning that he anticipates the library will be more active and visible in the community.
    Shaw shared on Facebook last week, “I am so grateful to everyone at the City of Caribou for the faith they are placing in me and will work my hardest to make it well placed. I am equally grateful to the City of Presque Isle for the many opportunities they have given me to learn, develop, and grow.”
    Neal Shaw is a LaGrange native who attended Penquis Valley High School and graduated in 1986 from Mattanawcook Academy in Lincoln.  She earned her BA in English from the University of Maine at Presque Isle in 2001. She has been served as reference librarian, assistant director and assistant children’s librarian at the Turner Memorial Library where she has worked since 2007.
    Neal Shaw’s earliest connections to the library were made when the Bookmobile would travel from Abbot Memorial Library in Dexter to her hometown.
    She is the daughter of Robert Neal Jr. of Naples and Joan Main of Crystal.