Janie Hermann

Brainstormer, Change Agent, Connector, Consultant, Environmentalist, Event planner, Idea generator, Parent, Public servant

I am the Public Programming Librarian at Princeton Public Library (NJ) which means that I oversee the 1,500+ programs planned annually by the library’s 15 member cross-departmental programming team. In 2007 I was chosen by Library Journal as a “Mover and Shaker” for my work in developing Princeton’s technology training program and for the founding of Tuesday Technology Talks in 1999. I have served on the executive board of the American Library Association's LEARNING Round Table and am active on several other ALA committees. I serve as member of ALA's Public and Cultural Programs Advisory Committee and am the chair of the Programming Librarians Interest Group. I am a proud Canadian and a graduate of GSLIS at The University of Western Ontario, but have lived in NJ for the last 10 years where I have been involved with the New Jersey Library Association and was appointed by the state librarian to serve on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Future of Libraries in New Jersey. During the last 15 years have given hundreds of presentations to librarians at the local, state and national level on a variety of topics ranging from Social Software to Newspaper Indexing. In my spare time I enjoy reading, scrapbooking, skiing and spending time with my son and husband.

Libraries, Transliteracy, Culture, Environmental Issues, Global Peace, Education, ending Hunger.

Libraries are essential now more than ever.

Community Outreach, libraries, public programming in libraries

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