Librarian - 

Tricia London earned her Master's in Library Science from Simmons College in 1988. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a minor in Theater from University of Massachusetts. This is her sixth year at Abington Middle/High Library. Mrs. London is also the advisor to the National Honor Society and S.A.M. -the student art magazine.  

Prior to working in Abington she was the Library Director at the Avon Middle High School Library, serving students in grades 7-12. She was also the Diversity Club adviser and the coach of the school Academic Decathlon team. 

In her spare time, Mrs. London enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles and swimming, but not at the same time.  She has been a part time Reference Librarian at the Westwood Public Library for almost 29 years.. 

Mrs. London is enthusiastic about e-books. In 2012 she was appointed to the MA Statewide Resource Sharing Committee and for many years served  on the Steering Committee and Collection Development task force for the statewide E-Books project (which looks far more impressive on her resume than being a judge for the Romance Writers of America Contest, one of her activities in 2007-2009.) This is her fifth year serving on the MA Teen Choice Book Award Selection Committee. In addition to statewide activities, Mrs. London is also one of a hundred librarians chosen for the American Library Association's Law for Librarian initial cohort.

Mrs. London's husband, Brian is a  semi-retired financial analyst; her son, Alex, is a reference librarian / archivist in Worcester; her daughter, Jillian is a chiropractor in Sharon and her dog, Tobi is a dog.

Library Tutor -

Sheila Manzi is excited to be part of the Abington MS/HS Library community! She has a Masters Degree in Secondary Education from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, TX and a Biology Teaching License.  She received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nautical Science and Marine Transportation from the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York.  She has three children- Emma, Gus and Maude - her girls are officers in the USN and her son is an officer in the USCG.  Raised in East Weymouth, MA., Ms. Manzi has also lived in Texas and Oregon.  She has had the unique opportunity to live and travel with overseas stays in the UK, Libya and Oman.  Wherever she has lived or rather, wherever her children went to school, she always found herself in the school library as a volunteer. She has been a Literacy Volunteer with both children and adults including those with limited English speaking skills.  She inherited her love of reading from both her parents and still makes frequent trips with her Mom to their public library for her weekly reads. She loves the smell of new books in an independent  bookstore, but loves just as much the smell of old books fastidiously shelved in book collections.  She loves to read a book that she never wants to end and keeps a journal with "her favorite lines". Her favorite book is How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn and she has read it again and again and again. She believes a library offers "a benevolent social connection with access for everybody to all sorts of information. A haven for dreamers."  She hopes to help offer such a connection and meet the dreamers who enter.