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 Samantha Hines is the director of LBCC’s Library and Learning Center. Director Hines has been working in library services since 1993. Her original degree path was in Political Science. She received her master's degree in 2003 and was a librarian for 15 years before venturing into the administrative side of library staff. She was working as a librarian for the  University of Montana College of Technology in Missoula in 2011 when the director of an affiliate community college library decided to retire. This opened up the opportunity for Hines’ first experience in a director's position.  What does a director do though? Here at LBCC Samantha Hines is the heart of the library and our librarians are the face. Director Hines is responsible for budgets, spreadsheets, interviews and being a voice on many of the committees that make important decisions to college policies and procedure and affordibility of educational resources to students. An example of this is the textbook affordabili

  Chef Josh Green department chair and faculty for LBCC Culinary, featured for environmental week. Chef Green has been working professionally in kitchens for over twenty two years. The summer after highschool he worked as a dishwasher and the fast paced ever changing environment sparked his intreuge. Working his way up from dishwasher to ingredient prep, and eventually lead cook. Josh never considered culinary before his summer dishwashing job but influenced by another coworker he discovered culinary school was an option and pursued it full steam ahead.   Chef Josh took up teaching after the birth of his daughter, working sixty to eighty hours a week and being on call twenty-four/ seven was not conducive for starting a family. As an educator Josh is inspired to continue learning at all stages in life. He states that he has learned alot from his students amd enjoys the shared experiences.       Chef Josh works directly with second year students. The core of the course Josh has developed