Marshall County Memorial Library

Jennifer Pearson, Director

Jennifer Pearson is the Director of the Marshall County Memorial Library System. Jennifer is passionate about community building and how the public library can be central to a thriving community.
Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program. Jennifer also worked with public libraries to extend access to e-books via the Big Shift project, create vibrant outdoor spaces and events via the Redbox funded Outside the Box program and taught libraries how to use community based advocacy to extend their reach to their communities and stakeholders. Jennifer also worked with many library consortia to develop and implement OCLC products and services.
Jennifer has also worked for Ingram Library Services as manager of their cataloging division, was a publicist at Rutledge Hill Press in Nashville and worked at the greatest independent bookstore in the entire world—Square Books in Oxford, MS.
Jennifer currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Rural and Small Libraries as the Vice President/President Elect of the Association. She is also active in her community as a member of the Lewisburg Rotary Club, the Lewisburg Community Development Board, the Marshall County Imagination Library Board, the Marshall County Health Council and the Lewisburg Downtown Alliance.
Jennifer is married to Scott Pearson, the Associate Editor for the Marshall County Tribune, and together they have 3 children.

Jennifer can be reached at:
931-359-3335
614-296-2433 (Mobile)
mcmlib@bellsouth.net

Darlene Young, Assistant Director of Operations

Darlene Young has worked at Marshall County Memorial Library since 2000. She has overseen Story Time and our Summer Reading Program since 2002. A graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature, she enjoys bringing her love of reading and storytelling to the next generation of Marshall County residents, and is best known for her performance of the children’s song “Tooty-Ta” by Dr. Jean.
Darlene’s official title is Assistant Director of the library, but you will see her happily working in a variety of positions throughout the Library on any given day.
Darlene has a strong love and commitment for the library and enjoys sharing that with the Marshall County community.

Darlene can be reached at:
931-359-3335
darlenemcmlib@bellsouth.net

Laura Smith, Assistant Director of Programming and Outreach

Laura started working for the Marshall County Memorial Library in 2014 after moving to Tennessee from South Florida. Prior to moving here, Laura worked for the Palm Beach County Library System for 13 1/2 years.
Her path to the library was by no means direct. Laura has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She has worked as an engineer, a zookeeper, a veterinary technician, and veterinary receptionist before her love of reading led her back to the library.
Her goal is to spread her love of libraries to others through great customer service and innovative programming for adults. She has started programs in adult coloring and upcyled book crafts, and hosts a weekly crochet club.
If you have any programming ideas, Laura would love to hear them.

Laura can be reached at:
931-359-3335
lauramcmlib@gmail.com

Melba Ewing, Library Assistant

Melba is one of the most senior members of the library staff, having worked at Marshall County Memorial Library for a number of years.

Melba is the smiling face you will almost always see at the front desk. If you are a regular, Melba knows what you like to read and will even put you on reserve for books she knows you will enjoy.

Melba also does our adult collection development and orders our memorial books.

Melba can be reached at:
931-359-3335
Library.MelbaEwing@gmail.com

Jennifer Park Wyatt, Library Assistant

Jennifer joined the staff at Marshall County Memorial Library in December of 2015. Jennifer spends a great deal of time giving amazing customer service at our front desk. Jennifer is also working with Darlene on Story Time and children's programming. Jennifer has a passion for non-fiction and that helps her in her job of weeding and doing collection development in our non-fiction area.
Jennifer grew up in Nashville, TN and moved to Lewisburg recently from North Carolina.
Jennifer is a graduate of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where she majored in Physical Anthropology & graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Jennifer's professional work experience includes everything from small business owner to professional pet sitter to equine therapy with special needs individuals, to criminal justice, to soup kitchen and library staff.
Jennifer is very passionate about the library and everything that we have to offer to the community.

Jennifer can be reached at:
931-359-3335
jpwyattmcmlib@gmail.com

June Lubieski, Library Assistant, Chapel Hill

June started working part time at Marshall County Memorial Library in 2011 where she performed a wide array of duties.
Since that time she has become Manager at the Chapel Hill Branch located in the Community Center on Depot Street.
She is excited to help bring library services to the northern end of the county and looks forward to helping this branch grow to meet the needs of the community.
June loves working with people and is always happy to help.

If you have suggestions for the Chapel Hill branch, June would love to hear them.

June can be contacted at:
jlmcmlib@gmail.com

Jessica Faill, Library Assistant

Jessica Faill started working at Marshall County Memorial Library in January of 2015. She was born and raised in Lewisburg. Jessica's love of reading let her to pursue a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in Dramatic Arts from Martin Methodist College where she graduated from in 2014.
Jessica loves working with teens and is the library's teen program coordinator. She also loves all things nerdy, so please ask her about video games!
She’s only worked at the library for a year, but she is confident that she is pretty much an expert at this point. Ask her a question and she’ll probably say “…uhhhh… let me ask someone else.”
She loves Lewisburg and the library and hopes that it shows in her work.
Jessica is married to Joseph Faill and they are proud owners of a fat pug named Archie.
If you have ideas for teen programming, events and materials-- hit up Jessica. She would love to know what more the library can do to serve the teen crowd in Marshall County.

Jessica can be reached at:
931-359-3335
615-997-4469 (mobile)
jessicahaywood124@gmail.com

Stephanie Adams, Library Assistant

Stephanie joined the staff at Marshall County Memorial Library in March of 2016. Stephanie is in charge of cataloging all of our acquisitions. In addition, Stephanie is a talented graphic designer so she creates our signs, our website content and other graphic items. Stephanie is also one of our main go-to people when help is needed on the computers .

Stephanie loves meeting new people and relishes the opportunities to assist anyone visiting our library and showing everyone everything that we have to offer to the community.

Stephanie can be reached at:
931-359-3335
mcmlibsteph@gmail.com

Lynn Hon, Library Assistant

Lynn starting working at the library in july of 2016. She is originally from Smithville, Missouri, a small town much like Lewisburg, about 17 miles north of Kansas City. She attended Maple Woods Community College in Kansas City working towards an Associate in Arts degree, with an emphasis on Mass Communications.

Lynn moved to Lewisburg in May 1991 and has remained here for 25 years. Previously she worked for Bob Smartt at WAXO TV & Radio for 6 years where she sold advertising, filmed: many news stories, local government and school board meetings, commercials at local businesses, baseball games, school graduations, and numerous other local events. She wrote, filmed, and produced many commercials for radio and TV ads. She was a broadcaster on WAXO radio & TV and was an on-air host for the program “WAXO TV Trade Time” Her claim to fame was beating Bob Smartt in thumb wrestling on live TV.

Lynn's passion and high suit is genealogy research. She is very good at finding missing people, living or deceased. She is very active as a volunteer, on the Find A Grave website, fulfilling photo requests for over 650 headstones here in Marshall County. She is responsible for fully documenting, photographing, and creating many previously undocumented memorial pages on the Find A Grave website for several of the local cemeteries.

Lynn can be reached at:
931-359-3335
lindylou2youlibrary@gmail.com

Lorrel Greeson, Library Assistant

Lorrel started working part time at Marshall County Memorial Library in July of 2016 where she performs a wide array of duties with her main focus being providing excellent customer service.

Lorrel moved to Lewisburg in 2009 and is married to Nathan Greeson. Lorrel has 2 children, 5 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. Her passions include Reading, Pokemon Go, Crafting, Crocheting, Sewing, and most importantly, THE BEACH.

Lorrel loves working with people and is always happy to help anyone with any question they may have..

Lorrel can be contacted at
931-359-3335
cecildog1957@gmail.com

Amy Lentz, Library Assistant

Amy Lentz started working at the Marshall County Memorial Library in July of 2016. Her primary focus is providing superb customer service.

Amy grew up in Lewisburg and her hobbies include reading, listening to music, traveling and trying new things. Amy enjoys working at the library and is ready to help you with all your library needs.

Amy can be reached at:
931-359-3335
amyperryman7@gmail.com

Caitlin Crowder, Library Assistant

Caitlin started working at Marshall County Memorial Library in June 2018. She was born and raised in Lewisburg. Caitlin is a graduate of the University of Tennessee - Knoxville where she received a Bachelor of Arts in History. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Archives and Records Administration virtually through San José State University. Her interests include reading, traveling, kayaking, hiking, Game of Thrones and K-Pop.

Caitlin can be reached at:
931-359-3335
ccrowde7@gmail.com