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Since I graduated in 1998, I spent a couple of years in a number of part-time positions at different institutions such as California State University, Northridge, El Segundo Public Library and the University of Arizona.  Since 2000, I have been the Information Literacy and Technology Librarian at Chabot College, a community college, in Hayward, California.  I achieved tenure in 2004.  I have been serving on the Electronic Access and Resources Committee for California Community Colleges since 2003, Secretary of California Clearinghouse on Library Instruction (CCLI) since 2006, and Secretary of East Bay for Democracy, (a grassroots Progressive Democratic club) also since 2006.  I also serve on a number of committees at my college including the Web Portal Planning Core Committee, the Distance Education Committee, and the Technology Committee. When I am not maintaining or creating web pages, reviewing, evaluating, writing and selecting databases, teaching, providing reference, or doing a number of other Library duties,  I try to find time to travel just for fun.  And if I cannot go on a land tour to Scandinavia (as I’ve had in 2007), I do my best to enjoy the sights and sounds of the vibrant Bay Area where I live.  I still hope to get back to my writing (I also have a MFA degree in that), but for now, I continue to read, when I’m not spending way too much time surfing the Web.

Norman Buchwald
25555 Hesperian Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94545
Office: (510)723-6993
FAX:    (510)723-7005

http://chabotlibrary.blogspot.com/

http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/

http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/iskills.html

http://home.comcast.net/~normanbuchwald/

I started working for the County of Los Angeles Public Library as a Children’s Librarian after I graduated.  I did that for 2 years at Hawthorne and Norwalk and then took an In-Charge position at the Paramount Library.  After 3 years with the County I quit to stay home with my children.  When they were older I started working half time as a Reference Librarian at the Torrance Public Library and I was there for 15 years.  During that time I got involved in local politics and served on the Torrance School Board for 8 years until I retired from that.  I left Torrance PL to semi-retire and work a few hours a week at the Redondo Beach Public Library but after a year or so I got bored and decided that I wanted to get back in to library work full time.  I came back to the County of Los Angeles Public Library System and I am now a Librarian V serving as Community Library Manager of the West Covina Library, one of the 5 Regional Headquarters libraries in the County system.  We have kept libraries in the family because my daughter Sara is Executive Director of the Long Beach Public Library Foundation.

Beth Wilson

bwilson@library.lacounty.gov