Jill Comsky Email & Phone Number

Panorama City, CA

I conduct Members' Tours of the Zoo two Sunday's per month, volunteer in the zoo's library one to two times per week, conduct special tours of the zoo for college level classes from several local community and state colleges on the subjects of adaptations, primates, anthropology, and biology, and volunteer in various other areas in the zoo, as needed.

Malibu Community Library, Malibu, CA

I am manning the Reference Desk, providing Reader Advisory and Reference Services to customers at the Malibu Library.

City Terrace Library, East Los Angeles, California

I currently serve on the Reference Desk at least two hours each day; provide reader advisory and help patrons locate materials in the library; plan and implement After-School Adventure activities, which include a storytime and an art activity or game; and also host library visits by first and sixth grade students every few months, which include a book.

Fairfax Branch

Reading to children and encouraging them to read aloud in order to nurture a love of books and reading.

Exposition Park And Rancho La Brea

Log in and process over one hundred print subscriptions, both by hand and in an online database.Help update the OCLC-based museum library catalog.Process inter-library loans with other museums and institutions of higher learning.Work with the librarian and other volunteers/graduate students to organize books, and other materials, in a newly renovated.

Pacific Palisades, CA

I served as a Reference Librarian answering directional and reference questions for library users, assisting with computer access, locating and routing patron requests, and assisting with collection development.

Canfield Avenue Elementary School, Los Angeles, California

I assisted the School Librarian/Media Specialist in the Canfield Avenue Elementary School Library. I ordered new materials, and then cataloged and prepared the new books to be placed on the shelves, checked books in and out for the students, reshelved books, repaired and recovered books, and helped maintain the library, as well as assisted older students.

Conducted individual and family therapy sessions with adolescent girls in a residential treatment facility. Completed required Department of Mental Health and County Probation paperwork.

Conducted individual, play therapy with children from 3-8 years old in an emergency shelter for children.

Lake View Terrace, CA

Conducted Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, individually, in groups, and family therapy sessions, with adolescent males and females, with multiple diagnoses, including drug abuse and behavioral problems, in a residential treatment program.Was responsible for writing reports including initial assessments, weekly summaries, quarterly progress reports, and.

Taught in a before and after school child development program, creating and implementing educational curriculum and activities for children in Kindergarten through fifth grades.

I started out as the Programs Assistant in the Education Department of the Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, assisting to schedule school and special tours of the museum, as well as fill in for docent tour guides as needed for museum and park tours. I was later promoted to Discovery Center Manager for the satellite museum built by the museum in Burbank..

M.S., Library And Information Science

Activities and Societies: CLA Student Group, ALA Student GroupI am part of the Los Angeles Cohort between the University of North Texas.

M.A., Marriage And Family Therapy

B.A., Dramatic Arts, Dramatic Literature

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Sorority

Transferred, Anthropology, English, Theatre Arts

Activities and Societies: Strut and Fret Theatre