Megan Mcfarlane Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il

• Responsible for the day to day implementation of the Campaign for America’s Libraries, ALA’s public awareness campaign about the value of libraries and librarians. • Manage and promote national Campaign initiatives including Scholastic Library Publishing National Library Week Grant and I Love My Librarian Award. • Pitch public service announcements to national media, resulting in over $2 million in donated print and digital ad space for ALA and Campaign for America’s Libraries. • Senior contributor on atyourlibrary.org, management and creation of written and video content for the Connect with your kids @ your library blog, development and implementation of the promotions. • Monitor the brand management of @ your library, including the implementation of the brand and disseminating weekly press releases about how libraries use it.• Coordinate promotional efforts with celebrities, including Caroline Kennedy, Neil Gaiman, and Stan Lee.• Responsible for the creation and implementation of public awareness materials and social media promotions for National Library Week and Library Card Sign-up Month.• Supervise the Campaign for America’s Libraries’ website, along with the Connect with your kids @ your library blog through atyourlibrary.org.• Support the ALA media relations department in promoting National Library Week, Library Card Sign-up Month, Youth Media Awards, Teen Tech Week, Teen Read Week, and the I Love My Librarian Award.

Chicago, Il

• Assist the children’s and youth services librarians to promote the Chicago’s Summer Learning Challenge to children at the McKinley Park and Bucktown-Wicker Park Branches of the Chicago Public Library (2014).• Work with children in book reporting and reflecting on their summer learning activities.• Provide support in promoting, staffing, and preparing for programs within both the branch libraries. • Enter data into online database for individual readers.• Distribute book bags and readers certificates to participants who have earned them.• Help children in information seeking and books selection.

Burr Ridge, Il

Master Of Library & Information Science (Mlis), Library And Information Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Majored In Journalism And Religious Studies, With A Minor In Spanish