Holly Carroll is Executive Director of Poudre River Public Library District in Fort Collins, Colorado. She arrived in Colorado in 2009 after spending all of her professional life in Ohio. Previous positions in Ohio include Deputy Director of Cleveland Public Library and Director of Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library. She is active professionally at the state and national levels. She has held numerous American Library Association committee appointments and is currently serving as co-chair of the Committee on Legislation, Telecommunications Subcommittee. In Ohio, Holly served as President of the Ohio Library Association. She participates on the Colorado Association of Libraries Legislative Committee.
Carroll was named Kent State Alumna of the Year for Professional Achievement in 2001. In 2003, she was inducted into the OLC Hall of Fame Library for Lifetime Achievement in Public Librarianship and received the OLC Chap Parsons’ Award for Library Advocacy.
During her tenure at Poudre River Public Library District, the library system received the Colorado Association of Libraries’ Julie J Boucher Memorial Award for Intellectual Freedom and was named a 2013 Urban Libraries Council Top Innovator for Serving Communities in Crisis.
Holly holds a Master’s Degree in Library Science from Kent State University and also a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Cleveland State University. She served as an adjunct faculty member at Kent State University, School of Library and Information Science and is currently an adjunct instructor at Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver.
