The Kellogg-Hubbard Library Board of Trustees announced today that Executive Director Dan Groberg will step down from his position due to serious health issues affecting his wife and the need to focus on his family.
The Board has named Carrie Cleveland, the Library’s Development Manager, as Interim Executive Director.
“Serving as Executive Director of the Kellogg-Hubbard Library has been one of the great honors of my life,” said Groberg. “This Library is a cornerstone of Central Vermont: a place of learning, welcome, and connection. While this is a difficult decision, my family needs my full attention right now. I leave knowing that the Library is strong, stable, and in excellent hands.”
Cleveland brings deep nonprofit, fundraising, outreach, and emergency-readiness experience to the interim role. Before joining Kellogg-Hubbard, she spent fifteen years with CERF+ — The Artists Safety Net, a national nonprofit formerly based in Montpelier — where her work included artist assistance, fundraising, education and outreach, and teaching emergency preparedness workshops across the United States and territories. Her background in nonprofit administration, donor relations, and disaster readiness is especially well aligned with Kellogg-Hubbard’s mission and recent history.
“Carrie Cleveland is a trusted leader who understands both the day-to-day work of the Library and the larger community it serves,” said Sarah Seidman, President of the Kellogg-Hubbard Library Board of Trustees. “Her experience, judgment, and relationships will provide continuity for staff, patrons, donors, municipal partners, and the six communities we serve. The Library remains stable, focused, and ready to continue its work without interruption.”
Groberg became Executive Director in June 2023, just days before the July 2023 flood inundated the Library’s basement and caused major damage to building systems. Under his leadership, Kellogg-Hubbard sustained public service through the crisis, reopened the building to the community, and advanced a major $2.5 million recovery effort that restored and reimagined the lower level with a year-round book sale, new meeting rooms, space for Elevate Youth Services’ Basement Teen Center, and major building upgrades, including the addition of air conditioning.
During Groberg’s tenure, the Library also continued to strengthen its role as one of Vermont’s busiest public libraries, circulating nearly 200,000 physical and digital items annually and welcoming nearly 13,000 people to Library programs in the past year. Kellogg-Hubbard also deepened and expanded community partnerships, including welcoming Elevate Youth Services’ Basement Teen Center into the restored lower level, hosting Good Beginnings of Central Vermont’s drop-in caregiver and baby space, The Nest, and partnering with People’s Health and Wellness Clinic to connect community members with accessible health and wellness resources.
“I am proud of what we have accomplished together,” Groberg said. “In a period marked by extraordinary challenge, the staff, board, volunteers, donors, municipal partners, and community members showed what this Library means to Central Vermont. Kellogg-Hubbard is resilient because the community around it is resilient.”
The transition will take effect on October 5, 2026. Library programs, services, fundraising, and strategic priorities will continue as planned.