Michael Messina Email & Phone Number

Billy Rose Theatre Division. Manage Print Biography and DVD Television sections.

Seward Park Library; Grand Concourse Library ; Jefferson Market Library

• Grand Concourse branch (6/2014 - 10/2017); Seward Park (10/2017 - present); Jefferson Market (two Sundays a month on average from 9/2015 to 3/2020)
• Develop and present Adult programs, including monthly Book Club and Short Story Discussion Group. These programs went virtual in April 2020. Short Story program also presented to homebound seniors through the DOROT.
• Provide public and reference service to patrons of all ages; adults in particular.
• Maintain Adult print book and Music CD collection, including weeding
• Initiated Mystery section at Grand Concourse and Classics section at Seward Park.
• Processed incoming Baker & Taylor titles, insuring that they reached the shelves on their publication date.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, NY

• Choose monthly recommended Top 6 book and media list for library website and social media.
• Developed and implemented new policies for library that moved into a new location as part of a building renovation. Created new subject categories for titles.
• Book authors for events including Michelangelo Signorile and Kenji Yoshino.
• Participated in the weeding of the collection of over 20,000 items by one half; assisted in the writing of new mission statement; reviewed architectural plans.
• I was a Volunteer Supervisor at this library for many years. I supervised a staff of three; evaluated donated books and other media for inclusion in the collection; and assisted patrons with reference and circulation.

Brooklyn, New York

I was in charge of processing the collection of Harvey Lichtenstein, the Executive Director of BAM from 1967 - 1999, at the BAM Hamm Archives. Among numerous achievements, Lichtenstein created the Next Wave Festival.I supervised two interns for this position that consisted of 16 to 20 hours per week.

Bronx, New York

• Stephen B. Luce Library, Bronx, NY, 20-27 hours a week
• Provide reference services (in person, by email, and on the telephone) to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and researchers using print, electronic, and archival resources, in the Humanities, Maritime.
• Expertise using these databases: EBSCO; Gale; JSTOR; ProQuest; and Springer e-books.
• Process lending and borrowing requests of books and articles using ILLiad and Odyssey.
• Use Aleph Integrated Library System to manage circulation desk and perform cataloging functions such as copy cataloging.
• Process, transcribe, and oversee transcribing of The Letters of Frederick Shepard McMurray collection, for the library archive. McMurray was a former president of the school and a ship captain.

New York, NY

Acquired Elliott Stein on Film: Selected Writings from Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Film Comment, and Sight & Sound. Foreword by Richard Corliss, Film Critic for Time magazine. To be published in 2014.Co-Editor of Best Practices series of books: E-Learning in Libraries; Mobile Library Services; Using Social Media in Libraries; and Customer Service in.

Brooklyn, New York

Analyze, identify, and process performing arts photos, slides, contact sheets, and audio/visual materials using several databases. Research notable figures such as Philip Glass for Iconic Artist Talks. Wrote blog entries for http://bam150years.blogspot.com/. Prepare materials for exhibitions. Scan photos and publications in Photoshop. Paid internship.

New York, NY

• Recommended titles to add to the collection, ordering through Yankee Book Peddler.
• Answered email reference queries, including in the Question Point system, searching collection materials and relevant databases.
• Processed donation of theater journals, creating item records in Millennium system.
• Processed entire collection and wrote finding aid for the Aviva Slesin collection (http://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/archivalcollections/pdf/the_slesin.pdf) of research and production materials for The Ten Year.

New York, NY

• Acquired and/or edited 77 original, reprint, and distributed books/dvds for these two imprints concentrating in theatre, film, television, and dance. Titles include Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story (2011) by New.
• Developed all titles, in many cases editing. Categories include biography/memoir, criticism, original play and musical texts, reference, and pop culture.
• Hired Editor for The Best American Short Plays annual book series.
• Negotiated distribution agreement for The Playbill Broadway Yearbook.
• Managed three-person department of an associate publisher/publicist, production editor, and art director, hiring for these positions. Managed reprints and all cover designs, hiring freelancers and working with in house.
• Wrote book jacket copy for all titles and copy for Applause/Limelight website homepage; answered website email inquiries.

• In charge of marketing, advertising, and publicity for re-launch of nonfiction trade book division, part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, specializing in the performing arts and history.
• Acquired 9 titles including the paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize winning O'Neill: Son and Artist, Volume II, the second half of Louis Sheaffer's acclaimed biography of Eugene O'Neill.
• Hired and managed in house publicist; contracted with outside publicity firm.
• Oversaw all cover designs, with with freelancers and in-house staff.
• Presented titles at sales conferences.

New York, NY

• In charge of marketing, sales, co-op advertising, and publicity for the three divisions of this trade book publisher covering a broad range of nonfiction. Subject areas included music and the performing arts.
• Supervised six commission sales rep groups in the U.S. and Canada and foreign rep groups. Sold the line to Baker & Taylor. In charge of special sales and direct mail marketing to the academic community for textbook.
• Acquired paperback editions of Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance and Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp.

Master Of Library Science, 3.95 Gpa

Wrote content analysis thesis on New York State theater archives. Took advanced classes in Humanities Reference; Librarianship in a.

B.A., English