What started as a “short-term” position of only one year has stretched into a four-and-a-half-decade career for Francis O’Neill, the senior reference librarian at the Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), where he manages the catalogue of over seven million items at the institution.

Friends and colleagues honored O’Neill yesterday with a celebration recognizing his 45 years at the institution.

MCHC assures researchers and lay people that even after all these years, O’Neill is not going anywhere. The library serves as a resource for genealogists and neighborhood researchers, information O’Neill shepherds with “a passion and erudite knowledge that is unmatched,” according to Katie Caljean, president and CEO of the center.

Francis O’Neill, Senior Reference Librarian at the MC

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