Jacquelyn Whisler Email & Phone Number

Sourcing and developing sewing tools and products

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Managed children's department of the Walnut Street West Library (2016-2018) and Donatucci Library (2018-2019)• Organized, redesigned, and optimized collection spaces• Created and implemented programs for children and their parents• Led cross-cultural events and programming for extremely diverse community with a global reach• Collaborated with schools to craft and execute literacy programs for students across ages and reading levels• Managed general materials and resources• Offered general reference and digital assistance for patrons

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Organized and implemented Building Bridges with Books , a federally-funded grant project that partnered the Free Library with the School District of Philadelphia• Created and implemented literacy curriculum• Scheduled bi-weekly library visits for grade schools students at 10 of the district's priority schools at 19 libraries within the system• Collected and reported data from the various aspects of the grant for periodic reports to Department of Education

Philadelphia, Pa

• Managed world-class humanities collection• Assisted research, reference, and information retrieval for students and researchers• Built online anthropology resource guide• Guided patrons to information regarding to museum artifacts• Utilized Voyager digital circulation program and UPenn’s Franklin catalog• Maintained museum library web pages and related products• Assisted professors with their online classroom sites• Managed student reference assistants

Philadelphia, Pa

• Planned and executed library curriculum for pre-K to 6th grade classes• Conducted literacy seminars with parents and teachers• Prepared ESL resources for largely Mandarin-speaking student body• Organized grant funding from local businesses and organizations• Managed item circulation and a collection of more than 3,000 titles, including many Mandarin and Cantonese language books

Philadelphia, Pa

• Piloted the digital media library project for Anthropologie retail brand• Created keyword taxonomy system to catalog and digitize creative content for departments across organization• Created accessible database that enabled items to be easily retrieved by intuitive keyword searches via in-house archive• Created databse with PHP and CSS coding on open source content management system Joomla• Conducted information literacy seminars for various departments to teach usability of the new database.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Hired, trained and mentored 120 Philadelphia high school students in becoming literacy coaches of children participating in FLP’s Summer Reading program in branches throughout the city.• Organized weekly training sessions for literacy coaches on how to read aloud to children, book and literature appreciation, arts & crafts integration, plus many other informative and beneficial topics.•Developed literacy activity manuals focusing on narrative skills, phonological awareness, print motivation and vocabulary building to be used by literacy coaches while working with children in their library branches.• Made weekly branch visits to interact with, and observe, literacy coaches and the summer reading participants; kept organized journal with notes.• Evaluated literacy coaches’ progress over the course of the program; each teen received a grade and a quarter of a credit towards his or her high school transcript.

Montreal, Canada Area

- Cataloged and digitally organized rare divinity books acquired by the Unitarian Church of Montreal, based on the Library of Congress Classification system.

Greater Philadelphia Area

-Oversaw operations of the store and assumed complete responsibility for my department (sales, service, profitability and loss prevention)-Trained, motivated and developed a productive sales team through coaching andperformance development plans.-Delegated projects to sales team to promote team work and time-management-Performed daily store operations (opening/closing procedures, cash management, merchandise shipment delivery, etc.)-Utilized company reports to productively respond to trends.

Mlis, Library And Information Studies

Ba, Political Science, French

Activities and Societies: Temple University-Rome Fall '07,