The City of Sonoma recognized Sonoma Valley Library Librarian Clare O’Brien with her very own “Ms. Clare Day” — a Celebrate Sonoma presentation at the March 2 city council meeting.
“I love working with our friendly, helpful team in Sonoma Valley and with our loving and appreciative community,” O’Brien said. “As much as libraries have changed over the past 30 years, much of our emphasis has stayed the same: Read to and read with our children!”
The city council recognized O’Brien at its March 2 meeting, a date now to be known as “Ms. Clare Day” in perpetuity.
O’Brien said she is delighted to receive the recognition and grateful to have had more than 20 years working and living in the same beautiful community with a library system dedicated to serving everyone.
Once a month, the city recognizes a community member at a council meeting with a presentation of a city recognition certificate honoring them by dedicating a day in their honor. The “Celebrate Sonoma” is a program started in 2019 to recognize people who make up the fabric of Sonoma.
Several local residents nominated the longtime Sonoma librarian for the honor and presented her with flowers and the announcement in January.
Sonoma community members Danielle Crompton and Megie Murray were among those who nominated O’Brien.
“Clare O’Brien is a treasure to the Sonoma Valley Library and Sonoma’s children,” Crompton said. “She has a real passion for her role at the library and the children, and their parents can feel that. She has touched so many of Sonoma’s children past and present.”
Murray said that she considers O’Brien as the welcoming face for Sonoma’s children into the “magical, limitless potential, plethora of knowledge safe haven” that is the library. “For 22 years, Ms. Clare has created an environment where families feel free to learn, ask questions, engage in activities and pursue interests,” she said.
“My daughter and I are so grateful to know Ms. Clare,” Murray said. She is one of those people who really does make you want to be a better person and you feel comfortable doing so. I am seriously considering going back to school to be a librarian because of her. Forever in my mind, she will be the persona I will picture when I think of a librarian.”
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