Andrea Vaughn Johnson Email & Phone Number

Wilmette, Il

Brooklyn, Ny

Provided leadership and support for school age services system-wide in 59 locations.- Coordinated Summer Reading program with $150k annual budget. Led planning team of staff from five departments and provided vision for program direction and materials. Promoted to media, schools, and partners. Collaborated with developers on website. Designed metrics plan for program evaluation. Trained all levels of staff. Planned annual kickoff event attended by over 2,000 people. - Co-wrote and managed the IMLS grant-funded programs Read! Write! Create! and Summer Science Club and an annual LSTA grant. Introduced CoderDojo events, maker parties, littleBits programs, and Lego Mindstorms robotics workshops. - Led staff committees such as the Children's Web Steering and Book Showcase committees.- Participated in project teams for initiatives including self-check roll-out, building renovations, MyLibraryNYC, Teacher Library Card, and Book a Librarian service.- Directly supervised up to twelve full-time librarians and staff, and regularly visited branches to observe programs and support branch staff. - Developed and presented staff trainings on topics such as child development, school outreach, and reading instruction in schools.- Represented BPL as a media spokesperson and testified before City Council.- Created content for social media and marketing materials.- Participated in hiring committee for librarian candidates.- Sought out and nurtured partnerships with schools, city agencies, cultural institutions, and community-based organizations such as NYC Hive, Heart of Brooklyn, CoderDojo, NYC Greenmarkets, American Museum of Natural History, and Brooklyn Children’s Museum.- Supervised the Youth Wing of the Central Library for an 18-month period while leading a committee to design a technology-rich learning space for teens.

Brooklyn, Ny

Duties included programming for children birth to age 14, collection development, reference and reader’s advisory, event planning, and outreach. • Coordinated class visits to the library.• Served on School Age Advisory Committee and Tri-Li Summer Reading Website Committee• Presented at Fall New Books Presentation, Mock Newbery, and Summer Reading Meeting and Activities Exchange• Participated in outreach visits to juvenile detention centers.• Instrumental in planning the “BPL ThinkTank,” an innovative professional development event.

South Jamaica, Ny

Responsible for children’s services in the South Jamaica and Long Island City Community Libraries, including all programming, collection development, reference service, and outreach.• Named “Rookie of the Year” for increasing Summer Reading registration by 130%

New York, Ny

• Assisted president in research and planning CBC projects and meetings. • Managed the CBC's library of current children's books.• Coordinated an auction of original art from children's book illustrators, which raised over $42,000 for the ALA Scholarship Fund and CBC literacy programs.

New York, Ny

• Taught classes in online research• Designed library newsletter • Provided reference service to students and faculty

Setauket, Ny

• Designed and conducted programming for all ages• Conducted reference service and outreach • Managed acquisition and cataloging of the non-fiction and audio/visual collections, a combined annual budget of $37,000

Bachelor'S Degree, English And Sociology Multidisciplinary

Master Of Library & Information Science - Mlis