Meredith Steiner Email & Phone Number

West Portal Branch Library, San Francisco, CA 94127

Worked at multiple San Francisco Public Library branches, providing professional library services to diverse communities. Provided reference and reader’s advisory service to children, teens, and adults. Provided information and responded to library users’ needs; assisted users in accessing print and electronic resources. Performed children’s storytimes.

Charge of the ALSC Early Childhood Services and Programs Committee: To identify and disseminate information on effective, cooperative, or innovative programs for young children to libraries, childcare providers, and community agencies serving young children (birth to 5). To develop training workshops on early childhood programs and services and present.

Charge of the ALSC Membership Committee: To plan campaigns for recruiting and securing new members for ALSC at the national, state, regional, and local levels. To serve as a channel for communication on membership matters between the ALA membership task force and the division. To plan and assume responsibility for conference orientation sessions and to.

San Francisco Bay Area

Oakland, CA

Created ACL’s blog; created and maintained ACL’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest presence to increase outreach and connect with the children’s librarians community. Wrote book reviews for the reviews journal BayViews on recently or soon-to-be published children’s literature to assist youth services librarians in making collection development.

About the Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to ChildrenAn annual award consisting of a commemorative gift and a 24k gold-framed citation presented to an individual who has shown exceptional understanding and support of public library service to children while having general management/supervisory/ administrative.

About the H.W. Wilson Library Staff Development GrantAn annual award consisting of $3,500 and a 24k gold-framed citation given to a library organization whose application demonstrates greatest merit for a program of staff development designed to further the goals and objectives of the library organization.

Created, planned, and organized the programs and assisted in the logistics and implementation of the biennial multi-day educational ALSC National Institute held in Oakland, CA in 2014.

Master Of Library & Information Science (Mlis), Youth Services, Multiculturalism

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Sociology And Women'S Studies

Activities and Societies: Departmental Honors in Sociology, Departmental Honors in Women's Studies