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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CITY OF PALMDALE NEWS RELEASE CONTACT: John Mlynar PHONE: 661/267-5115 DATE: June 28, 2017 Robert Shupe Named New Palmdale City Library Director PALMDALE – City of Palmdale officials are pleased to announce that Robert Shupe has joined the Palmdale City Library to serve as the new library director, replacing Thomas Vose who accepted a position as director of the Ruth Enlow Library in Garrett County, Maryland. With more than 30 years of experience in the library field, Shupe has served as student reference assistant, bookmobile librarian, dean of library services for Mohave Community College in Arizona, director of Mohave County Library System ( also in Arizona and most recently as director of the Logan Public Library in Logan, Utah, where he was awarded numerous grants for new library programs, equipment and the expansion of reading materials. Shupe has also been very active in multiple professional library associations, including serving in leadership positions in Arizona Library Association, Utah Library Association, Mountain Plains Library Association and as an elected delegate on the OCLC Members Council. Originally from Ogden, Utah Shupe moved to Kingman, Arizona as a teen and graduated from Kingman High School. He earned a BA in Sociology, Physical Education/Secondary Teaching Certificate minors from Southern Utah University and a Masters in Library Science from Brigham Young University. In his free time, Shupe loves the outdoors, sports, the performing arts and, of course, reading. -30- Communications Department • 38300 Sierra Highway • Palmdale, CA 93550 www.CityofPalmdale.org