Resume

RESUME

Nancy Florio
florion1@southernct.edu

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VOICES of September 11th                                                                                            January 2010 - Present    NEW CANAAN, CT

Internship - Digital Archivist & Web Designer

• Redesigned the VOICES website portal
  
• Redesigned the Living Memorial portal
  
• Processed archival records and images from 9/11 victims' families
• Attended Living Memorial appointment to collect archival material

CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY                                                                   Summer 2009    NEW BRITAIN, CT

Internship - Electronic Resources & Information Systems

• Created a digital libraries portal for the Burritt Library digital collections
• Created a digital collection of archival yearbooks using ContentDM software
  
• Transcribed oral history interviews for the Veterans History Project (VHP)
  
• Processed archival records, added images, and created metadata for the VHP collection
• Created a 'Citing Your Sources' LibGuide study guide for the Burritt Library website

RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL                                                                                                              1995 - Present     WASHINGTON DEPOT, CT

Librarian                                                                                                                                                                                   1998 - Present

• Develop and oversee budget
• Maintain and develop the collection, purchase and process library materials
• Maintain and oversee technology in the library, develop and maintain library website
• Work collaboratively with teachers to support curriculum
• Develop curriculum and teach information literacy skills for grades 6 – 9
• Develop curriculum and teach information literacy skills for K-5 and ESL students
• Assist students with research and book selection needs
• Develop special programs to celebrate Children's Book Week, Teen Read Week, Read Across America, etc.
• Coordinate and train student prefects and parent volunteers
  

Ceramics Instructor                                                                                                                        2007 - Present

• Develop and teach ceramics for Upper School Art Elective
• Develop and teach ceramics program for the After School Enrichment Program for the Lower School
  

Language Skills Teacher                                                                                                                       1995 - 1998

• Taught one-on-one with students with learning disabilities
• Provided reading instruction in Orton-Gillingham
• Coordinated with teachers to provide additional curriculum support to students in the Language Skills Department

HOUSATONIC ADOLESCENT HOSPITAL                                                                                     1984 - 1987    FAIRFIELD HILLS HOSPITAL, NEWTOWN, CT

Director of Activity Therapy

• Departmental Head in a short and long term residential psychiatric facility for adolescents
• Designed and implemented a therapeutic wilderness program
• Supervised Activity Therapy staff - art, music, recreation and wilderness therapy. Developed and instructed a ceramics program
• Wrote and implemented a federally funded grant for therapeutic wilderness program to treat violent sexual offenders and their families

EDUCATION CONNECTION                                                                                                              1983 - 1984 LITCHFIELD, CT

Director, Family Connection Program

• Wrote and implemented federal grants
• Supervised staff and provided services for adolescents in Northwest Connecticut
• Provided crisis counseling and arranged temporary shelter for at-risk adolescents

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

PRESENTER                                                                                                                                                                      January  2010         

• Presented workshop titled, NoodleBib, LibGuides, and the Big6: Promoting Academic Integrity During the Research Process for the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools Commission on Professional Development, Teachers Sharing with Teachers: Ideas for the 21st Century Learning Conference
  Chase Collegiate, Waterbury, CT.

PRESENTER                                                                                                                                   September 1986         

• Presented paper on program for violent sexual offenders and their families at the Association of Experiential Education Annual Conference, Moodus, CT.
  

CO-AUTHOR                                                                                                                                  September 1986

• “The Family Wilderness Program: A Description of the Project and its Ethical Concerns.” Published in The Season of Ingenuity: Ethics in Experiential Education. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Association for Experiential Education. M. Gass & Larry Buell (Eds.)
• Paper based on original program and research conducted in conjunction with Robert Creal, PhD while working at Housatonic Adolescent Hospital.

WARREN PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD OF DIRECTORS                                                              1988 - 1998    WARREN, CT

BOARD MEMBER

• Served as Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary of the Board
• Developed short and long–range plans and interfaced with local government agencies
• Responsible for oversight of budget, fund raising, and hiring and supervision of staff
• Designed and implemented story hour programs
• Chair of Children’s Book Selection Committee
• Processed books and performed various library duties

• The American Library Association
• The Connecticut Library Association
  

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