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Holly Hinman

Born in western Massachusetts, Holly Hinman was a library trailblazer, first as the director of the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System (now Southern California Library Cooperative) for 12 years before moving on to become the director of Burbank Public Library and then Library Services Manager in Beverly Hills. From 1994 until 2015, when she retired, she was director of the Infopeople Project, the premier collaborative for library innovation and training in California. Following an extensive evaluation and review of previous library leadership efforts in California and elsewhere, she initiated the Eureka! Leadership Program in 2006, thus producing many of today’s library directors. Holly was president of the California Library Association (CLA) in 1986 and CLA Member of the Year in 2004. She died in 2024.