Carla A. Bosco

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Upper School Librarian, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bethesda, MD (September 2005-present)

v  Oversee budget and develop print and electronic collections for Upper School; select databases for entire school and negotiate contracts with vendors.

v  Design and maintain library website.

v  Chair, Research/Library Skills, Middle States Accreditation Committee. (2007-2008)

v  Served on Strategic Planning Committee; wrote report on future technologies in schools. (2008-2009)

v  Conducted summer faculty workshops on internet/database research (July 2006; August 2007)

Reference Librarian, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA (August 2002-March 2005)

Reference Librarian, Ludcke Library, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA (December 2000-April 2005)

Assistant Director, Virginia Wing Library, Winsor School, Boston, MA (July 1996-June 2002)

PUBLICATIONS

“Harvard University and the Fugitive Slave Act,” The New England Quarterly, June 2006 issue.

Reprinted as “When Harvard University Came to Support the Abolitionist Cause” in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Winter 2006/2007 issue.

“Choices, Choices: Selection Issues in Independent School Libraries,” Independent School Libraries: Perspectives on Excellence, Libraries Unlimited, June 2010.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

School Library Journal Library Leadership Summit, Philadelphia, PA, (October 2012)

American Library Association Midwinter and National Conferences (2006-2011)

National Forum on Information Literacy (October 20, 2009)

Computers in Libraries/Internet Schools, Washington DC area (April 2007; April 2008; April 2009; April 2010; March 2011)

The Teaching Library in the Age of Google, Teacher Workshop. The Taft School. Watertown, CT (July 2006)