Caryn Bartone Email & Phone Number

Northville, Michigan, United States

Westland, Michigan

• Lead a six person staff of degreed librarians and library paraprofessionals. Responsible for interviewing, hiring, training and staff evaluation. Provide leadership and mentoring to my team.• Work to drive unity across all departments by encouraging a culture of kindness, cooperation and accountability.• Participate in the development of library policies, goals, objectives and plans.• Engage in outreach to schools and other community organizations.• Actively seek grants, along with participating in fund raising and public relations. • Create monthly departmental report for Board of Directors.• Provide assistance in the planning of upcoming department and library expansion. • Compile library statistics and reports and drive continuous improvement.• Develop and manage Youth & Teen Department materials and programming budgets.

South Lyon, Mi

• Supervised Youth and Teen Department staff, Substitute Librarians, Pages and Teen Volunteers.• Participated in various library board driven committees including Policy Committee, continuous improvement teams and Strategic Planning team. • Developed and administered Youth and Teen Department materials and programming budgets. • Originated and executed annual Book’n Trilogy road race fundraiser for ten years. This entailed building relationships with government officials, community groups and local businesses. • Coordinated and directed the Friends Club; an organization of local youths who work to promote and fundraise for the library.• Collaborated with local high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, preschools and local day cares to promote program participation. • Designed Summer Reading programs for youth and teens, including partnering with local businesses and obtaining donations for program prizes.• Actively sought and applied for grants and other awards. Annual recipient of sponsorship awards from Vibe Credit Union for library programming. Recipient of a $2,000 Target Early Childhood Reading Grant.

South Lyon, Mi

• Supervised Adult Department staff and adult volunteers. • Developed and administered Adult Department materials and programming budgets.• Conceptualized and implemented adult Battle of the Books, benefiting local charities.• Responsible for collecting, interpreting and maintaining library statistics for the Director.• Provided outreach services to homebound patrons.• Implemented the “Adopt a Magazine” program to obtain the majority of the library’s magazine subscriptions through donations.• Designed Summer Reading program for adults and partnered with local businesses to obtain donations for prizes.• Developed and maintained collections including adult fiction, adult audio books and large print.• Taught a variety of computer classes including Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point.• Managed displays related to upcoming program topics and relevant subjects to promote Life Long Learning.• Administered library’s test proctoring service.

South Lyon, Mi

Northville, Michigan

• Provided reader’s advisory, reference and technology assistance to library patrons in Youth, Teen and Adult departments, utilizing a variety of print, electronic and audio-visual resources.

Northville, Michigan

• Provided mortgage processing services for local mortgage brokers and lenders. Processed approximately $30M in loans annually.• Provided customers with high quality service from mortgage application to mortgage closing.• Business financial planning and implementation including marketing and sales.

Master Of Library & Information Science (Mlis)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), General Business Administration