Rebecca Vnuk has held a variety of positions in libraries over the past 11 years, including Collection Development and Management experience.  This year, she was awarded the prestigious Allie Beth Martin Award for excellence in Readers’ Advisory, and was named one of Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers.

With expertise in all aspects of collection management, extensive experience in weeding collections of all sizes, a passion for staff training, and years of annotating and book reviewing under her belt, Rebecca would be a perfect choice to speak at your library’s next training or in-service day.

Rebecca has given workshops and presentations for a number of institutions, including:  Public Library Association Annual Conferences; Illinois Library Association Conferences; ILA Reaching Forward; Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries; Kansas Library Association; Adult Reading Round Table; and more!

Rebecca is willing to create a new presentation tailored to your library’s needs, or, ready presentations include:

Connecting Patrons with Books through the Internet (for library staff) and How to Find a Good Book Using the Internet (version for patrons)

Readers, Writers, Books, and Blogs (with co-creator Karen Kleckner)

Collection Development: The Basics

Feel the Need to Weed

Library 2.0 Basics

Non-Fiction Reader’s Advisory: Separating Fact from Fiction

Rebecca is also available to work with your library on an as-needed basis to assist your library with projects such as:

• Writing Collection Development plans
• Weeding collections, small to large
• Creation of new collections/opening day collections
• Leading a Library 2.0 initiative

Please email Rebecca for more information. Professional references and a full listing of past presentations are always available.

For a full resume, email Rebecca and she’d be happy to send it to you.  You can also view her LinkedIn profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/rvnuk.