HR288: Commending Kim Bean.

HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 288

Offered February 2, 2021
Commending Kim Bean.
Patron-- Gooditis

WHEREAS, Kim Bean, head librarian at the Mary Jane and James L. Bowman Library in Frederick County, retired in 2020; and

WHEREAS, Kim Bean’s distinguished career as a librarian has spanned more than 40 years and touched several corners of the Commonwealth; and

WHEREAS, beginning her career at the library at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Kim Bean later worked at the Amherst County Public Library in the 1980s and was director of the Samuels Public Library in Front Royal for seven years; and

WHEREAS, Kim Bean joined the Handley Regional Library system that serves Winchester, Frederick County, and Clarke County in 1998 as head of the agency’s adult services division; and

WHEREAS, Kim Bean was a key member of the team that designed and opened the Mary Jane and James L. Bowman Library, one of three branches within the Handley Regional Library system, in 2001; she has served as operations manager and head librarian at the library since 2014; and

WHEREAS, one of Kim Bean’s many responsibilities as a librarian was to select titles for the library system, including works of adult and young adult nonfiction, Spanish-language publications, and DVD releases; and

WHEREAS, Kim Bean has served the reading community of Stephens City and Frederick County with tremendous passion and dedication for many years, helping to make the Commonwealth a wonderful place to live, work, and play; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, That Kim Bean, head librarian at the Mary Jane and James L. Bowman Library, hereby be commended on the occasion of her retirement; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Kim Bean as an expression of the House of Delegates’ high esteem and admiration for her notable contributions to the Commonwealth.