Michelle Quigley Email & Phone Number

Delray Beach, Florida, United States

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Coordinate library system's technology instruction programs; design and present technology classes, staff workshops and one-on-one assistance.

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

Provide reference and research service at the reference desk and as part of the library's Community Research Service, which embeds librarians with government agencies and nonprofit organizations for in-depth research projects; assist and instruct library users with computers, mobile devices, online searching, ebooks, and other technologies; manage local government document digitization project; teach and design curriculum for adult computer classes and technology-related programs; and perform nonfiction collection maintenance and development.

Ocean Ridge, Florida, United States

Research, data analysis, and website management for monthly local newspaper

Provided reference and research services to the Delray Beach community; assisted and instructed library patrons with computers, mobile devices, online searching, ebooks, and other technologies; taught adult computer classes; managed library website; participated in statewide AskALibrarian online reference service; performed collection development and reader advisory services

Assessed and made recommendations on cataloging, digitizing and providing public access to the historical society's archival collection; supervised archive and museum docents and volunteers; and produced exhibits for historical society events.

Collaborated with The Post's investigative journalists on award-winning coverage of the Florida Lottery, private prisons, pill mills, defendants who plead not guilty by reason of insanity, Florida's stand your ground law, and other projects. I also provided daily deadline research and research training; analyzed data and created data visualizations for the newspaper’s websites; managed newsroom intranet and in-house databases extracted from public records and other sources; maintained news and photo archives; and provided content and managed social media presence for the Historic Palm Beach blog.

Established the Government Information Service to provide research, background information, demographic analysis, and customized current awareness updates to government agencies and elected officials in Palm Beach County. Other duties included collection development of urban planning and local government materials, and publishing a newsletter highlighting local, state and federal government information.

Performed research for the 70+ lawyers in the oldest commercial law firm in Palm Beach County. Research included background on people, places and things, skip-tracing, and compiling databases of case information. Other duties included training legal staff on use of commercial and internal databases and cataloging law library materials.

Master'S Degree, Library And Information Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, English

Certificates

Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization (2013) and Data Visualization and Infographics with D3 (2015)

Certificate, Homeless Library Patrons Continuing Education Course