Grace Bentley Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri Area

•Oversee a department of 5 staff who provide services and programming for children birth through eighteen-years- old and their families.• Provide services to 28,000 children per year through programming and outreach• Coordinate outreach efforts to preschools, Head Starts, day cares, and elementary schools, with a focus on Title 1 facilities• Coordinate and provide twelve programs in-house each week.• Partner with four elementary schools that increased outreach programming by 22% while maintaining current staffing levels; presented at 2014 Missouri Association of School Librarians conference on partnership• Oversee department renovation, including purchase of train-themed play structure; presented at 2016 MLA conference playground equipment in libraries

• Originated Children's programming and services• Develop and run children’s programming • Coordinate with Youth Services and Collection Development to provide programming and children's materials• Facilitate staff training • Develop community partnerships-- Discovery Center, Springfield-Greene County Botanical Center, First Friday Art Walk, Ozarks Regional YMCA, etc; • Manage all programming• Mediate high-risk patron conflicts and coordinate with local law enforcement and social services providers

Masters Degree, Library Science And Information Technology

Graduated with a 4.0 GPA with an emphasis in public librarianship and youth services.

Bachelor Of Science, Professional Writing

Graduated cum lauda with a technical writing BS and a literature minor.