Experience

YALSA
• Morocco
• Retail
• Printz Award Committee Member

  • 2012 - 2013

Rhode Island Teen Book Award
• Committee member

  • 2006 - 2013


North Kingstown Free Library

• United States
• Libraries
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Coordinator of Readers' Services

  • Jun 2009 - Mar 2012

  This position includes all of the Readers’ Advisor responsibilities, and more. Extensive analysis of community needs and use of materials led me to propose and implement a strategic re-organization of the adult fiction and large print collections. This re-organization involved a massive weeding project based on statistics pulled from Millennium reports, and re-classification of materials into more browsable genre-based sections, re-arranging the collection to allow easier access to the Large Print collection for seniors, to allow for more shelf-space for the popular Mystery and Thriller section, and to make the Science Fiction/Fantasy section and the Romance section more visible and prominent. Began collecting Adult Graphic Novels, in response to national studies and Rhode Island graphic novel circulation statistics. Worked with Friends of the Library and volunteers to streamline gift-sorting to more effectively see how patron gifts could enhance NKFL’s fiction collections, especially focusing on the patron-popular mass-market paperback format. Supervised pages, volunteers, and URI GSLIS Student Interns.

• Readers' Advisor

  • Jun 2008 - Mar 2012

  Readers’ Advisor, North Kingstown Free LibraryThis position included intensive collection development and analysis of the adult fiction, large print and foreign language collections. Readers ’Advisory service included all areas of the collection, including Non-fiction, Young Adult, Children’s and Adult New Readers’ materials. Developed and implemented personal Readers’ Advisory online service. Outreach to local senior centers included running Rolling Library programs delivering materials to rehabilitation facilities, and speaking at functions. Developed booklists for patron use and on the NKFL website, created New Book e-lists, contributed to the library’s online presence through the website and Facebook. Re-organized the Readers’ Page with the Technology Services Coordinator. Developed and ran four monthly book groups each targeting and reaching different segments of the population (Twist in the Tale Mystery Book Group, Something to Talk About (controversial fiction and non-fiction), The Jane Austen Book Group, Thursday Classic and Contemporary Fiction). Served as needed at the Young Readers’ and Reference Desks. Supervised pages and URI GSLIS Student Interns.



West Warwick Public Library

• United States
• Libraries
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Young Adult Librarian

  • 2006 - 2008

  Young Adult Librarian/ Assistant Children’s Librarian, West Warwick Public Library. This position included collection development, fund-raising, programming, running the Teen Summer Reading Program, outreach to local schools including speaking before assemblies, maintaining files and databases (Millennium and Horizon), website development, serving on the website committee, recruiting and supervising volunteers, developing book lists, developing and presenting on-going YA programming, facilitating reader’s advisory and reference services for youth, designing promotional material advertising library services and programs, and attending and hosting professional meetings.