Amanda Halfpenny Email & Phone Number

Saint-Jérôme, QC, CA

St-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Planned, coordinated and evaluated national bilingual programs and projects such as Canadian Children's Book Week Tour/Tournée Lire à tout vent, TD Grade One Book Giveaway/Un livre à moi TD and I READ Canadian/Des livres canadiens pour moi.- Displayed leadership and flexibility in my ability to creatively re-imagine program delivery in response to.

Toronto, Canada Area

- Built course content that focuses on practical communication skills,- Provided students an enriching and motivating environment where they can meet their learning objectives,-Used assessment tools that accurately evaluate students' ability to apply core course concepts.(Communications across contexts, School of English and Liberal Studies)

Toronto, Canada Area

• Manage daily school and pedagogical library services for students and staff (Kindergarten to Grade 6)
• Perform collection development including negotiating budget, acquisitions, and collection maintenance
• Plan, conduct, evaluate, and revise library programs such as story time, information literacy activities, and presentations
• Perform original and derived cataloguing
• Train and supervise library volunteers

Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick

• Transformed a toxic work environment into one of positive communication where employees were happy to come to work
• Successfully established new community partnerships that increased the library's visibility and profile in the community.
• Balanced the need to implement the policies and services of a province-wide library system while also learning and understanding the specific needs of the Tracadie-Sheila community.
• Worked collaboratively with Library Board, City councilors, City Manager, Mayor, and provincial MLA to secure the library expansion project as a priority in the municipal and provincial political agendas (built 2014).
• Introduced new strategies for measuring the impact of the library in the community and the satisfaction level of users.
• Oversaw the implementation and promotion of new services (ex. the launch of OverDrive)

Westmount, Qc

• Processed loans, returns, renewals and holds of library materials. Create and updated memberships.
• Provided basic reference service, such as demonstrating the use of the public catalogue and other finding aids.
• Provided Reader Advisory

Montreal, Quebec

• Provided reference service to students and faculty using a variety of print and electronic reference tools
• Completed special projects pertaining to collections such as researching new titles and weeding the reference collection
• Created search tools for users such lists of subject specific titles for Children’s Literature Collection
• Provided technical support as required (printer, scanner, internet connection to secured network, etc)

Montreal, Quebec

• Assisted instructor on preparing and teaching Information Agency Management Course
• Created and added class materials online to Web CT

Montreal, Quebec

• Designed a marketing strategy to promote the library’s e-resources
• Created instructional material on the library’s services and resources using HTML and CSS
• Consolidate the records of multiple library catalogs due to the merger of three separate resource centres within Environment Canada.
• Took the initiative to improve existing bibliographic records in order to facilitate searching and make decisions on the weeding of duplicate or obsolete holdings.

Montreal, Quebec

• Evaluated library collection
• Responded to reference questions
• Organized and performed in-library and outreach programming (such as story-time to daycare groups)

Quebec City, Quebec

• Advised librarians and educators on recommendations for new acquisitions including the creation of promotional material
• Researched and promoted through presentations province-wide educational material for primary and secondary school students
• Established partnerships with new clients on individual and organizational levels
• Organized and ran promotional events such as book fairs and vendor kiosks at education conferences

Quebec, Canada

Masters, Library & Information Studies

Activities and Societies: President, ABQLA Student Chapter 2009-2010; Chair, Multilingual Children's Library 2009-2010; Co-Organizer, Web.

Certificate In Event And Meeting Management Program, In Progress

Courses Completed - Event Program Design 1, Event Sponsorship & Fundraising, Event Leadership & Human Resources Event Site Selection.

Ba, French Literature

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba (Uncompleted), French Language And Literature