Beth Gallaway Email & Phone Number

35 Grafton Common, Grafton, MA

Managed all day-to-day operations of a suburban public library serving 19,000+ residents, including circulation, reference, youth services, and technical services; programming, outreach, and partnerships; scheduling and payroll, PR and marketing; capital and long-range planning; and collection development;Prepared, defended, and managed fiscal budget.

Haverhill, MA

Responsible for adult programming, marketing and PR, and acted as interim director in director’s absence. Served as head of collection development, head of technical services, and volunteer coordinator. Change agent and lead implementer on a number of library-wide initiatives, including re-design of a 15-year-old website, email notification campaign.

Provided support and continuing education to academic, public, school, and special librarians in the Metrowest region; conducted continuing education workshops on topics such as collection development, database training, customer service, virtual reference, children's and young adult services, technology and more; liaison on local and various statewide.

Developed young adult collections; supervised Teen Cyber Center computer area (including training/supervising over twenty teen volunteers a year); provided reference and reader's advisory for teens, adults and children; facilitated library programs; maintained library website and teen website; produced and distributed all library PR; wrote and executed.

Haverhill MA

Functioned as member of children's room team to select and purchase juvenile fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats; planned and implemented story time for ages 1-5; developed innovative programs for ages 5-12; created/maintained children's room website.

Haverhill, MA

Designed curriculum and prepared lectures, assignments and exams for college students; incorporated classic and current children's literature titles for class discussion; introduced students to children's literature resources on the Internet; evaluated students performance for semester grades.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Library & Information Science

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Humanities

Activities and Societies: Newspaper, Chorus, Science Club, Drama, Library work/study

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Humanities

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Academy Theatre, Science Team, Newspaper, Flag Squad