“At age 16 I knew I wanted to be a librarian,” says Cynthia Muhlbach the director of the East Smithfield Public Library.
A native of the Riverside section of East Providence, Cindy – as she prefers to be called – is now 65, and she is still following the career path that beckoned her when she was a high school student serving as a page at the Riverside Library.
Muhlbach has been director of the East Smithfield Library for five years now. When her tenure at the facility began it meant that another seasoned, experienced person was assuming leadership there. She succeeded Elodie Blackmore, who had been the director for 63 years.
Stable and well-patronized by its community, East Smithfield Library is housed in the Dorothy Dame building, a former school…
