Brett Bonfield

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Brett Bonfield
Collingswood, NJ 08108 USA
http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/authors/brett-bonfield/

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PUBLICATIONS	Bonfield, Brett. In the Library with the Lead Pipe Author. October 2008-Present. Pisapia, Anthony and Brett Bonfield. Managing Constituent Relationships: Four Case Studies. TechSoup. 14 July 2008. Bonfield, Brett. PLA Blog Guest Author. ALA Annual 2008 and Midwinter 2009. June 2008-July 2008 and January 2009. Skala, Matthew, Brett Bonfield, and Mary Fran Torpey. Enforcing Copyright. Library Journal. 15 February 2008. Bonfield, Brett. Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites?. TechSoup. 8 January 2008. Bonfield, Brett. Consuming Information. Library Journal. 15 October 2007. Bonfield, Brett. Mentoring Milestones (Guest Contributor). The Bulletin, The Newsletter of the Business & Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association. Fall 2007. Bonfield, Brett. ACRLog First-Year Academic Librarian Author. September 2007-April 2008. ACCESS. Raw Thought: announcing the Open Library. Number 62, September 2007. (Reprinted from Bonfield, Brett. Aaron Swartz Announces the Open Library. LISNews. 16 July 2007.) Bonfield, Brett. LISNews Author. June 2007-October 2007. Bonfield, Brett. "Info Intro: Microfinance." Business Information Alert. May 2007. Bonfield, Brett. Time For Academic Librarians To Tune In To The Semantic Web. ACRLog. 24 May 2007. Anello, Karen and Brett Bonfield. Providing Reference Service in Our Sleep: Using a FAQ Database to Guide Users to the Right Sources. Reference & User Services Quarterly 46.3 (2007): 26-31. Bonfield, Brett and Laura S. Quinn. Comparing Open Source CMSes: Joomla, Drupal and Plone. Idealware. 20 September 2006. Bonfield, Brett and Laura S. Quinn. Microsoft Office vs. OpenOffice.org. TechSoup. 28 March 2006.

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PRESENTATIONS	Low-cost Merchandising, NJLA Annual Conference, April 27-29, 2009 SJRLC Fundraising 101, 7 April, 2009 SJRLC Making the Most of Bad Times: Helping Your Customers & Yourself through Recession, 3 March, 2009. ACRL President's Program panelist, ALA Annual, 30 June, 2008 ACRL ULS Current Topics Discussion Group, introduction for guest discussion group leader, Aaron Swartz, 12 January, 2008

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS	ACRL, 2006-2008 ULS Current Topics Discussion Group committee, 2007-2008 ULS Communications Committee, 2008 ACRL Delaware Valley Chapter, 2006-2008 Nominations Committee, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 Legislative Liaison Board Member, 2008 ALA, 2006-Present Presidential Initiative Reactor Advisory Group (REACT), 2009-2011 Young Librarians Working Group, 2009-2010 Co-Chair, Affiliate/Comparable Professional Organizations Assessement Subcommittee LITA, 2009-Present NJLA, 2008-Present Chair, Finance Committee Chair, New Home Committee Treasurer-in-Training (term to begin in 2010) Library Leadership Network Advisory Group, 2008-Present PLA, 2008-Present SLA, 2006-2008 Student Academic Affairs Advisory Committee, 2007-2008 SLA Philadelphia Chapter Technology Task Force, 2007-2008 South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative At-Large Board Member, 2009-2012

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WORK EXPERIENCE	Collingswood Public Library Director	May 1, 2008 - Present Collingswood, NJ
	Oversee operations, management, and policies Responsible for technology infrastructure Maintain budget and direct fundraising activities -
	Temple University Samuel L. Paley Library Special Projects	September 15, 2007 - April 30, 2008 Philadelphia, PA
	Transformed HTML-based finding aid to MARCXML suitable for uploading to Diamond: The Libraries' Catalog Established budget and timeline for digitizing 25,000-volume video archive Project managed and specified requirements for new database of staff privileges (e.g. room and system access, credit card authorization) Benchmarked academic library website norms and best practices Assisted in transferring image archives from Digital Diamond (Innovative Interfaces, Inc.) to ContentDM -
	Saint Joseph's University Francis A. Drexel Library Reference	November 15, 2007 - April 30, 2008 Philadelphia, PA
	Provided reference assistance for students, faculty, and staff in person and virtually via QuestionPoint Provided bibliographic instruction (e.g. to MBA classes) Assisted with web projects -
	University of Pennsylvania, Lippincott Library Reference	August 15, 2006 - December 31, 2007 Philadelphia, PA
	Provided business reference services to students and faculty in person, via email, and IM, and multidisciplinary reference through Van Pelt Library's IM and live chat service Created research guides for library website (e.g. Microfinance) Responsible for information literacy instruction for Wharton Management 100 students (Spring 2007) Transferred thousands of bound serials to high density storage -

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AWARDS AND HONORS	2007 Knower Award from SLA Philadelphia Chapter (stipend to attend SLA Annual Conference)

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EDUCATION	Drexel University MS in Library and Information Science	September 2006 - September 2007 Philadelphia, PA
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	Rutgers College BA in English Literature	September 1988 - May 1991 New Brunswick, NJ
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SKILLS	(X)HTML and CSS Website usability, accessibility, metadata, and information architecture Hosted software (CMS, frameworks, and database-backed site technologies) Ability to specify programming languages and adapt programs Significant experience with Microsoft Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems

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