JUSTIN HOENKE BASIC INFORMATION JustinTheLibrarian @ gmail . com Website : justinthelibrarian . com WORK EXPERIENCE Coordinator of Teen Services/Manager of The 2nd Floor April 2013 - Present Chattanooga Public Library Provide leadership for The 2nd Floor of the Downtown Chattanooga Public Library , a 14 , 000 square foot space dedicated to library services for patrons ages 0 - 18. Manage and coordinate a staff of 15 library employees for tween/teen library services within 4 branches . Serve as a member of the library system s Leadership Team which provides vision and action for the role of the library in the 21st century community . Develop and present budget proposals for library materials , programming , and staff personnel using a budgeting - for - outcomes framework . Manage operations , supply orders , scheduling , and payroll for the youth services team . Collaborate with professional designers to envision the re - branding and re - design of The 2nd Floor . Increased Teen/Tween Circulation by 33% and program participation by 37Þveloped a Youth Services programming toolkit to standardize programs with a focus on STEAM , Common Core , Every Child Ready to Read standards , and maker space culture . Collaborated with Hamilton County Schools , non - profits , and local businesses to bring programs and resources to the Chattanooga Public Library . Technology Management : Developed , initiated , and managed Google Chromebooks for Tweens and Teens at the Chattanooga Public Library using the Chromebook Management Console . Teen Services Team Leader March 2010 - April 2013 Portland Public Library Supervised a staff of 3 employees and acted as floor supervisor Collaborated with library administration to develop and open the first ever Teen Library in the Portland Public Library system . Teen Collection Development : Responsible for building and maintaining collections for four branches of the Portland Public Library . Community Outreach and Collaborative Programming : Worked with local community organizations such as The Telling Room , Casablanca Comics , Maine College of Art , Portland Police Department , the Boys & Girls Club of Southern Maine , and local area high schools to bring resources and programs to teens at the Portland Public Library . Outlined , developed , and implemented a plan for integrating social media into teen services . Teen Librarian May 2008 - March 2010 Cape May County Library Provided teen programming and collection development for eight branches of the Cape May County Library . Created and maintained the Cape May County Library Teen Zone Blog and the Cape May County Library Teen Zone Podcast which featured teen created content . Served as a library supervisor , overseeing the circulation staff , volunteers , and the facility .
GRANTS , AWARDS , APPOINTMENTS Board Member , School Library Journal Teen Advisory Board Member of the Chattanooga Mozilla Hive Learning Network . Mozilla Community Gigabit fund ; $30 , 000 grant award in partnership with Hyperaudio to develop and test a transcript powered video editing tool . Benwood Foundation , $40 , 000 award in partnership with AIGA Chattanooga and engage3D to host " DEV DEV : summer of code " in Summer 2014. Library Journal's Movers and Shakers award , March 2013. Member of the 2013 Young Adult Library Services Association President's Task Force . Panel Member , 2010 - 2012 Letters About Literature Contest , Maine Humanities Council . Teen eBook Selector for the Maine Infonet Download Library , August 2011 - March 2013. Mentor , 2011 American Library Association Emerging Leaders Program . American Library Association 2010 Emerging Leaders Program participant . SELECT PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS Speaker , State Library of New South Wales , Sydney , Australia , November , 2015. Keynote , LIANZA 2015 , Wellington , New Zealand , November , 2015. Speaker , New York Library Association Conference , We Hope You Had An Amazing Experience , October 2015. Speaker , Thursdays With CLA Webinar , Reinventing Reference , May 2015. Keynote , Create and Collaborate and Be Awesome For Your Community , Enoch Pratt Free Library Innovation Expo , Baltimore , MD , May 2014. Presenter , ALA STEAM Webinar , Virtual , May 2014. Keynote , We Hope You Had An Amazing Experience : Libraries In the 21st Century , Marigold Library System , Strathmore , Alberta , Canada , May 2014. Contributing Author , The Whole Library Handbook : Teen Services , Gaming in Libraries , edited by Heather Booth and Karen Jensen , April 2014. Keynote , 21st Century Boys & Girls : Youth Services Leads The Change in Public Libraries , UNCG LIS Alumni Luncheon , Greensboro , NC , March 2014. Moderator and Presenter , The Digital Shift : Reinventing Libraries , Library Journal/School Library Journal Online Event , October 2013 Presenter , Introduction to Visual Literacy : Strategies for Reading Art , Maine Humanities Council , October 2012. Contributing Author , The Library Marketing Toolkit , by Ned Potter , June 2012. Presenter , Video Games in Libraries , and Library Management , Bibliothekartag Library Conference , Hamburg , Germany , May 2012. Presenter , Content Creation for Teens , Carterette Series Webinars , Georgia Library Association , March 2012. Co - Author with Nicole Pagowsky , ALA Emerging Leaders : New Perspectives in Leadership , Library Leadership & Management Association Journal ( LLAMA ) , February 2012. Author , Collaboration and Community for a Successful Future , VOYA , December 2010. Presenter , Maine Library Association Conference , Connecting With Teens Using Social Media , October 2010. PROJECTS Member : HIVE Chattanooga Learning Community , the Mozilla Foundation's select group of community leaders who work to support technology and connected learning experiences in the Chattanooga area through collaboration between local agencies . DEV DEV : summer of code , a code camp for teens that made possible by a grant from the Benwood Foundation and in collaboration with engage3D and AIGA Chattanooga . Make Art for the Library , Collaboration with the Maine College of Art , Portland Public Library , May 2012. Searching for ME , Collaboration with The Telling Room and the Maine College of Art , December 2011. Make Music at the Library , Collaboration with Sonya Tomlinson , Portland Public Library , Summer 2011. Game On ! Envisioning Your Own Video Game , Collaboration with The Telling Room , Portland Public Library
Fall 2010. EDUCATION Master of Library Science , Clarion University of Pennsylvania , May 2008 Bachelor of Arts in English/Writing , Edinboro University of Pennsylvania , May 2006