Louise Alcorn Email & Phone Number

Louise Alcorn has been at the West Des Moines Public Library in Iowa since 1996. She also writes for library professional publications and teaches professional development classes on a variety of subjects for the State Library of Iowa and several Library Service Areas. Louise earned her MILS at the University of Michigan’s School of Information in 1995. She also has a B.A. in American Studies from Grinnell College (1992). She was a student research fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago through the ACM/GLCA Humanities at the Newberry Program in the fall of 1990, assisting in the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project. While at the University of Michigan, she was president of the Information and Library Studies Student Association (1995) and participated in the original Internet Public Library Project [ www.ipl.org ]. Publications:With Maryellen Mott Allen. Wireless Networking: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006. “Management Experience Through the Back Door.” Info Career Trends. January, 2005. www.lisjobs.com/newsletter/archives/jan05lalcorn.htmWith Michael Sauers. The Neal-Schuman Directory of Management Software for Public Access Computers. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2003.Occasional contributor/author, LISNews [www.lisnews.com] and Iowa Library Association Catalyst.Specialties: library technology, user training

Listed skills include Library, Collection Development, Library Science, Electronic Resources, and 30 others.

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  Library Technology Coordinator

  West Des Moines Public Library

  Jul 2015 - Present - West Des Moines, Iowa, Us

  Same job, more responsibility. :)