Meet Our Librarians

Brent Pollock is the librarian for the high school. He has a Masters of Library Science and a Bachelors of Science in Education. He has been with the district since 2016 as the high school librarian. Mr. Pollock also serves as a member of the SAP team and sponsors and cosponsors a number of extracurriculars including: student government, global relations, maker space, and book club. 

As a mother of 5, Mary Folmer has spent the last 20 years volunteering in various positions in the Pine-Richland School District assisting students and staff.  In 2017, Mrs. Folmer was hired as the Library Assistant at the Pine Richland High School Library.  With her degree in English, this opportunity allows her to combine her love of literature with her desire to do all things possible to aid students and make their experience more positive each day.  Mrs. Folmer enjoys helping students with their educational needs but strives to make the library and school a welcoming and safe environment for all students.  

Mrs. Shenefiel has been the librarian at Eden Hall Upper Elementary School since it opened in 2008. She also serves as the library department chairperson and a Building Level Technology Coach. She is currently an active committee member in several professional organizations including the Western Pennsylvania School Librarian’s Association, and the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association, where she leads the Information Freedom Task Group. Mrs. Shenefiel received her Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2001. 

Mr. McKinney will complete his 33rd year with Pine-Richland at the close of the 2022-2023 school year.  He has worked as the librarian at Hance and Washington Elementary Schools (building now part of St. Barnabas), and was the first librarian at Richland Elementary School. He also worked for 5 years as a third grade classroom teacher at Richland and was a computer teacher at Wexford, Washington and Hance.  Currently, Mr. McKinney serves as both a librarian and computer teacher at Hance Elementary School.

Mr. McKinney earned his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from Slippery Rock and Pitt Universities respectively.  He holds certifications in Elementary K-6 Education and K-12 Library Science. 

Mr. Hovanec started at Pine Richland in 2012. He was first the librarian assistant, then the librarian at Richland Elementary. 

"The reason I love being a librarian is we promote the love of books and reading throughout many different age groups and backgrounds. We not only get to do this within the library, but we are able to help promote this through many different curricula in our schools. The thought that we can inspire learning, imagination, exploration and a positive outlook on the future is one of the most rewarding outcomes a person can ask for. "

Mrs. Clarkson started at Wexford Elementary in 2019; she received her library degree and subsequent school library certification from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor's degree in Art History from the University of Michigan.  She spent the first part of her career at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the eiNetwork, the nonprofit organization that provided all of the technology to public libraries in Allegheny County.