PORTSMOUTH Before she joined the Portsmouth High School staff a few years ago, librarian Heather Raab was a speech pathologist who had only worked sparingly in a school library setting when she volunteered in her two kids’ school.
Before coming to Clipper country, she had never even worked with high schoolers. “I had only worked in elementary school or with younger students,” she said.
Three years into her tenure, Raab has certainly made her mark at PHS and beyond, as the New Hampshire School Library Media Association recently recognized her with a statewide award.
On Friday, May 14, Raab was named the recipient of the NHSLMA’s 2021 “Emerging Leader” award, an honor “given to a school librarian who has been working in the profession for five years or less and has already made significant contributions to the school library community,” per the NHSLMA.