Shelley Levinson

Tasks done solely as Youth Services Supervisor/Manager:

• Supervise two youth service librarians.
• Maintain team cohesion through monthly 1:1 meetings with each YS librarian and monthly YS team meetings.
• Write performance reviews for direct reports and provide advice on SMART goals.
• Attend monthly branch management meetings, programming meetings, and information services staff meetings and quarterly PWPL expanded management meetings.
• Maintain budget and plan purchases for youth services department.
• Use government issued credit card to make purchases.
• Contract with programming vendors.
• Coordinate programming provided by PWPL Office of Planning and Engagement.
• Maintain YS Outlook calendar and schedule desk hours for YS team.
• Plan programming with branch youth services and adult services librarians.
• Keep planning organized using Outlook, Excel, and Communico.
• Keep track of YS programming statistics in Excel and Communico.
• Submit monthly YS update and statistics for branch report.
• Send quarterly YS program submissions for PWPL’s Explore magazine to Office of Communication and Marketing and later proofread rough draft.
• Maintain floating collection through weeding, rebalancing, and send suggestions to PWPL Children’s Materials Selector.
• Part of PWPL Youth Sharepoint work group that revised and updated Teams site.
• Selected Great Falls Library summer branch collection based on theme, community and reviews using Ingram ipage.
• Created spreadsheet to track weekly Collection snapshots to determine what materials were circulating most and where to fill in any gaps at Great Falls Library.
• Maintained floating collection at Great Falls Library using FCPL Collection App, Collection HQ, Wilson Core, and CREW.
• Lead and participated in several hiring committees for library assistants.
• Created and printed Great Falls Library monthly calendar which involved multi-tasking in Word, LibCal and scheduling app.
• Used LibCal for room bookings and event scheduling.
• Frequently helped senior population at Great Falls Library with technology, such as computers, copiers, eBooks, etc.
• Participated in FCPL Summer Reading 2023 committee.
• Updated FCPL Take & Make LibGuide monthly to highlight crafts and displays.
• Conducted book clubs for school age children at Great Falls Library.
• Helped create work schedule for Great Falls Library Information staff in scheduling app.
• Created Canva flyers and signs for Great Falls Library FOL.
• Created and taught intergenerational craft activities for ages 5-Adult.

Tasks done as Youth Services Librarian and Youth Services Supervisor/Manager:

• Plan and lead storytimes, passive and interactive programs for ages 0-18.
• Create flyers, posters, and quarter sheets in Canva and Publisher.
• Create scavenger hunts for children's section.
• Cover Children's and Information desk as part of one-desk model.
• Maintain floating collection through weeding, rebalancing, and suggestions to Children’s Materials Selector using Polaris reports, Wilson Core, and PWPL Collection Guidelines.
• Use Communico for room bookings and event scheduling.
• Create displays for children and teen sections.
• Perform readers’ advisory for all ages using knowledge, Novelist Plus, and library catalog.
• Use Polaris LEAP to perform circulation and information desk tasks, create record sets, Power searches, and shelf lists.
• Communicate with assigned schools to promote library through outreach such as school visits and PWPL outreach events.
• Use MS Outlook Tasks to track and prioritize workload and professional development.
• Reorganized Montclair’s and Bull Run’s YS Sharepoint pages to make it easier to navigate.
• Organized, labeled, and inventoried YS supplies at Great Falls, Montclair, and Bull Run.
• Used customer surveys to determine direction of programming.
• Used MS Forms and Sign-Up Genius to schedule tasks for TAG and teen volunteers.

Tasks done solely as Youth Services Librarian:

• Lead TAG groups at Great Falls Library and Montclair Library.
• Scheduled and supervised teen volunteers Great Falls Library and Montclair Library.
• Filled YA book box requests and maintained YA book box supplies at Montclair Library.
• Participated in PWPL Summer Reading 2024 committee.