Director of Readers’ Services, The Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO. June 2012-present
Readers’ Services Manager, The Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO. April 2006-June 2012
- Supervise two departments, Readers’ Advisory and Circulation Services, including recruitment, training, supervision, and evaluation of Information Services and Circulation Services staff
- Plan, execute, and evaluate system-wide services and programs for the promotion of reading as a leisure activity
- Develop Readers’ Advisory training programs for Central Library and system-wide staff
- Create Readers’ Advisory resources for system
- Conduct Readers’ Advisory research using print and electronic sources
- Participate in collection management in all fiction areas
- Create and implement all programming to promote leisure reading
- Create and contribute to library’s Fiction content pages on library website
- Serve on library committees related to collection development, special funds, renovation projects, long-term planning, etc.
Adjunct Faculty, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO. Fall 2008
- Responsible for graduate-level instruction in online Readers’ Advisory course
- Creation of syllabi, lectures, assignments and projects
- Selecting texts and readings, grading and consulting with students
Adult Services Librarian/Readers’ Services Librarian, Kansas City, Kansas Public Library, Kansas City KS. January 1999-March 2006
- Responsible for prompt, courteous, and accurate customer service
- Reference and readers’ advisory research using print and electronic sources Collection management in all fiction areas, poetry, literature, popular culture, sports and performing arts
- Manage Main Library’s McNaughton account for circulating materials
- Create and maintain various displays in the library including all the display areas in the Fiction collection
- Maintenance of Main Library Adult and Reader’s Services web pages including online resource BookLetters
- Produce and edit BookBeat, the fiction newsletter of KCKPL
- Coordinate all literature-based programming for adults
- Conduct outreach visits upon request
- Produce and manage Library's annual Summer Concert series.
Adjunct Faculty, Institute for Continuing Education, School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS. Fall 2004
- Responsible for graduate-level instruction in three weekends of intensive Readers’ Advisory courses
- Creation of syllabi, lesson planning, selecting texts and readings, grading and consulting with students
Adult Services Coordinator, Emporia Public Library, Emporia, KS. June 1991-January 1999
Responsible for all operations within Adult Services including, but not limited to:
- Customer service & Interlibrary Loan
- Reference research using print and electronic sources
- Collection management & Cataloging
- Supervision, recruitment and training of all Adult Services staff
- Management of collection budgets of ILDP and State Aid funds
- Management of gift and memorial program; management of collection budgets
- Creating and implementing public policies for Internet and workstation use
- Creating and implementing all Adult Services programming
Adjunct Faculty, Butler County Community College, Eureka Community Resource Center, Eureka, KS. Summer 1996-1998
- · Responsible for conducting courses in Composition I and II during summer session
- · Lesson planning
- · Choosing texts and other readings
- · Grading and consulting with students
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