Princeton Public Library Connections magazine Summer 2018

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Executive Director: Brett Bonfield Assistant Director: Erica Bess Marketing and Communications Director: Tim Quinn Development Director: Lisa Belshaw Ham Public Programming Librarian: Janie Hermann

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Head of Youth Services: Susan Conlon Head of Adult Services: Janet Hauge Events Committee: Erica Bess, Mimi Bowlin, Katie Bruce Amanda Chuong, Susan Conlon, Kim Dorman, Kristin Friberg, Janet Hauge, Janie Hermann, Jocelyn Jimenez, Martha Liu, Kelsey Ockert, Caroline Quinones, Hannah Schmidl Staff Writer: Amy Hiestand

STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS Katie Bruce (Youth Services librarian) has been selected to serve on YWCA Princeton’s 2018 Next Gen Board and Executive Committee, which engages young women in board leadership activities … Susan Conlon (head of the Youth Services Department) was elected member-at-large to the American Library Association Sustainability Roundtable Steering Committee … United for Libraries, a division of the ALA, has invited Kristin Friberg (readers services librarian) to serve on its Book Club Central/SJP Book Club Task Force … ALA has appointed Janie Hermann (public programming librarian) to a one-year term as chair of the Public and Cultural Programs Advisory Committee of the ALA Public Programs Office … Janice Painter (head of the Access Services Department) was appointed for a one-year term to the New Jersey/Delaware Digital Public Library of America Metadata Working Group … Erica Bess

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(assistant director) and Janet Hauge (head of the Adult Services Department) led a successful effort to secure $10,000 in grant money for an English language literacy skills program through American Dream Literacy Initiative … Janie Hermann and Hannah Schmidl (humanities fellow) led efforts for the library to become one of 50 nationwide to be selected by ALA to receive a programming kit for the Ken Burns-Lynn Novick documentary series “The Vietnam War” … “Furyborn,” a new young adult novel by author Claire Legrand (Youth Services library associate) was selected as the May 2018 LibraryReads Top Pick and has been praised heavily by critics … Jocelyn Jimenez (Teen Services librarian) is the 2018 recipient of the New Jersey Center for the Book’s Miss Rumphius Award for her work on “I Read This Book” … The Association of Library Services for Children has awarded Amanda Chuong (Youth Services librarian) a 2018 Penguin Random House Young Readers Group Award, one of four nationwide awarded to librarians with fewer than 10 years of experience working with children ... Lauren Glattly (Friends administrator) and Marissa Warren (Youth Services library associate) were selected as recipients of the inaugural Albert Einstein Scholarship, an award established by an anonymous donor who wishes to recognize library staff members for their valuable contributions to the community.

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