Bill Waters Email & Phone Number

Adams County, Illinois

Selected, Managed, and supervised the children's collection of 35,000 items while staffing the service desk 70 hours a week and maintaining office hours 10 hours a week.

Taiama Secondary School, Taiama, Southern Province, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Volunteers currently are posted at schools in 12 districts throughout Sierra Leone, primarily located in small towns and villages in the interior of the country. As teachers of English, science, and mathematics in junior and senior secondary schools, they work to promote the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology’s (MEST) goal of improving the quality of education. They also coach and mentor teachers, facilitate extra-curricular activities, promote girls’ enrollment in school, and oversee programs involving reproductive health and youth development. In 2012, a Peace Corps Response program was added to provide support to teacher training institutions throughout the country. These are returned Peace Corps Volunteers who undertake more narrowly focused and shorter-term assignments. On my own iniative I staffed, managed, and organized both the local public library and the school library.

Barry, Illinois 62312

As E-rate Federal Grant Coordinator I was responsible for applying for, updating, responding to inquiries, and evaluating the monies from the Universal Services for Schools and Libraries (USAC) http://www.usac.org/ Universal service is based on the principle that all Americans should have access to a baseline level of telecommunications service and further the public interest of keeping all Americans connected. Over $100,000 was collected by Western CUSD School from eRate program during my tenure as grant coordinator.

Barry, Illinois 62312

Manage and staff 3 libraries for a prekindergarten-12th grade public school district of approximately 800 students. Provide library skills instruction to every student with a total collection of approximately 25,000 volumes valued at $96,000 housed in 3 separate physical rooms but cataloged by a single online public access catalog.

Liberty, Illinois, Usa

Managed and staffed 2 full-service libraries for public school district of approximately 850 students, prekindergarten through 12th grade.

Agricultural Primary Education volunteer and motorcycle training & maintenance manager. Worked with several villages introducing age-level appropriate lesson plans to teachers. Created several agricultural projects for school children: rabbit husbandry, soil evaluation & fertilization, crop selection and management. As Motorcycle Training Manager I was responsible during 2 year period for setting up and running all in-country motorcycle training for over 350 volunteers.

Masters, Library Science

Activities and Societies: Staffed reference desk of undergraduate library

Bachelor, Education

Activities and Societies: Focus on Elementary Education, Prekindergarten through 9th grade certificate for Illinois Public Schools

Associate In Arts, General