Susan Melick Bresnan

Library Media Specialist, Nutley Public Schools at Nutley Board of Education
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Essex County, New Jersey, United States, JE
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Credentials

  • Library Media Specialist
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Experience

  • Nutley Board of Education
    • Primary and Secondary Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Library Media Specialist, Nutley Public Schools
      • Sep 2005 - Present

      Experience at both the secondary and elementary level including: Elementary (K-6) Library serving 500 students and High School Library serving 1200 students. Oversee circulation and information literacy instruction. Design and maintenance of Library Media Center Website. Responsible for book selection. When at high school, responsible for contracts for subscription databases. Conducted professional development seminars for faculty. Experience at both the secondary and elementary level including: Elementary (K-6) Library serving 500 students and High School Library serving 1200 students. Oversee circulation and information literacy instruction. Design and maintenance of Library Media Center Website. Responsible for book selection. When at high school, responsible for contracts for subscription databases. Conducted professional development seminars for faculty.

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • United States
    • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Museum Professional
      • Jan 1988 - Aug 2005

      Assistant Manager and Archivist, The Photograph Studio (Met Imaging) Aug 2003 - Aug 2005 Process, catalog, and archive digital photography produced by the Photograph Studio. Maintain and update databases related to photography. Train Museum staff in use of databases and PowerPoint. Acted as liaison with the Information Systems and Technology department. Served on the following Museum committees: Met Images (Digital Asset Management project); Content Database Steering; Subject Cataloging. Image Acquisitions Manager, Editorial Department Jul 2001 – Aug 2002 Analyzed and standardized procedures for requesting and acquiring images for exhibitions and publications. Tracked the acquisition and use of non-Museum images. Created a shared environment for storing information about images, rights and reproductions, and permissions. Developed and maintained a database of contacts at public institutions to facilitate picture research. Evaluated and reorganized payment procedures for images and associated rights.Served on the following Museum committees: Intellectual Property Policy; Content Database Steering; Media Metadata. Associate Museum Librarian, Photograph and Slide Library (Image Library) Jan 1988 – Jul 2001 Responsible for overseeing the general function of the Slide Section of Photograph and Slide Library, an analog image archive containing over 1,000,000 images. Supervised, hired and trained staff and interns (approximately 10 people). Supervised reference and circulation services. Cataloged and classified art images for circulating files. Determined exhibition budgets based on projected needs of department. Consulted in the design of new departmental offices (completed in Fall 2000). Planned the computerization of day-to-day operations and project management with consultants. Promoted twice within this department. Show less

  • Westfield Memorial Library
    • United States
    • Libraries
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Reference Librarian (part-time)
      • Jan 2003 - Jun 2003

      Answered reference questions in-person and by telephone in a busy suburban public library. Duties also included: inter-library loan; instruction (bibliographic and general computing skills); library tours and orientation; collection development. Answered reference questions in-person and by telephone in a busy suburban public library. Duties also included: inter-library loan; instruction (bibliographic and general computing skills); library tours and orientation; collection development.

  • Montclair State University
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Internship, Sprague Library
      • Sep 2002 - Dec 2002

      Internship provided an overview of the functions of an academic library. Experiences included "shadowing" the Dean of Library Services (Judith Lin Hunt) at various meeting both on and off campus including: Council of NJ College and University Deans (http://library.rider.edu/njcouncil/), VALE Consortium (http://www.valenj.org/), Board of Directors of Palinet (www.palinet.org), and various Montclair State meetings and functions. Completed projects include: subject bibliographies, study guide to resources in Industrial Design, inventory of an archival collection and its corresponding finding aid. Show less

Education

  • New York University
    MA, Art History
    1984 - 1987
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
    Certificate, Library Media Specialist
    2006 - 2009
  • Long Island University
    MLIS, Library and Information Science
    1998 - 2002
  • Mount Holyoke College
    Bachelor's degree, Art History

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