With a passion for public library service, Pam Harris began her career as a children’s librarian and rural services advocate. Pam continues to promote meaningful public library service in her current role as the CEO/Chief Librarian of the Mississippi Mills Public Library, a 2-branch system serving a population of 12,500. Mississippi Mills is not only a bedroom community to Ottawa; it is also a growing community, a mix of rural farm land, hamlets, villages, a town and an economy increasingly relying on tourism. Its unique configuration presents interesting and surprising challenges for library service and leadership keeping Pam on her toes developing library policies, programmes and services that are responsive to community needs yet true to public library principles of equity and access.