Catherine Delneo is an American librarian, the State Librarian of Vermont. Prior to this role, Delneo was the chief of branches at the

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, a system in which she started working in 2006. Her first professional job was at the Somerset County Library System in

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, where she was a librarian for children and teens and later worked as a training coordinator for the system. As the state librarian, Delneo is also the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Libraries, overseeing a budget of $3.2 million in 2022. Delneo was born and raised in

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. She has a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from

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and a

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from

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. She played cello in the Vermont Youth Orchestra from grades 6 through 12. She is also an avid open water swimmer and ice swimmer. She was the first woman documented to complete a round trip swim around Angel Island in San Francisco in 2013, and has circumnavigated Manhattan in a 12-hour marathon.

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