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Library Experience
I have worked to improve services and meet the needs of the clients in school, public and academic libraries giving me the breadth of library experience that is needed to lead ALA. I have:
- served on two public library boards (president of the Board of Trustees for one);
- launched a capital project to create a children's room, reconfigure a museum within the library, and improved the environmental controls in a research center;
- taught as a school librarian as a middle/high school librarian for 38 years, supervised an elementary library for two years;
- taught as an adjunct at two academic institutions--SUNY Plattsburgh and Mansfield University; and
- served on state-wide policy making commissions and committees for all library types.
Selected Library Experience:
Professional Employment
- Library Media Specialist, Lake Placid Central School District. Middle/High School (grades 6-12), September 1999-present, Supervisor of Elementary Library Media Program, September 1999-September 2001.
- Adjunct Professor for the NCATE-accredited School Library & Information Technology (SL&IT) program at Mansfield University, “Access and Legal Issues,” Summer 2009-present.
- Adjunct Professor of Bibliographic Instruction, Introduction to Information and Technology Literacy, Plattsburgh State University of New York. Feinberg Library, Plattsburgh, NY. 1990-2006.
- Library Media Specialist, Beekmantown Middle /Senior High School, Library Media Center (grades 6-12), September 1972-June 1999.
Professional Experiences and Awards (selected)
- Member, Regents Advisory Council for Libraries, 2008-present
- Associate Editor for AASL Community, Knowledge Quest, 2003-present.
- Member, New York Online Virtual Library (NOVEL) Steering Committee, New York State Library, 2002-2005.
- Recipient of the Adjunct Excellence in Teaching Award, Plattsburgh State University of New York, 2002.
- Member of Library/Media Standards Writing Committee of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, Arlington, VA, 1997-2001
- Facilitator and editor for K-12 Regional Library Media Information Literacy Curriculum Guide, Clinton-Essex-Warren-Washington BOCES School Library System, Plattsburgh, NY, Summers 2001-2002.
- Member of Regents Commission on Library Service for the 21st Century, Albany, NY, 1998-2000 <http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/rcols>.
- Recipient of the North Country Reference and Research Library Resources Council Excellence in Librarianship Award, 1996.
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