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Excerpted from: http://peterbromberg.com/about/

I am the Assistant Director at the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative (SJRLC), a multi-type consortium in New Jersey. One of my main duties is to provide continuing education opportunities to library staff in the 630+ libraries in the southern seven counties of New Jersey.

I am proud to have helped develop and manage QandANJ.org, New Jersey's 24/7 virtual reference service. We were the first 24/7 collaborative virtual reference service, and sometimes I get asked to go somewhere and talk about how we "did it good".

My ALA activities include a three year stint as Secretary for ALA's Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange Round Table (CLENE). I currently serve as membership chair and webmaster for CLENE, and recently developed CEBuzz (http://cebuzz.wordpress.org) a collaborative blog that addresses continuing education and staff development. I am also very involved in the planning of ALA's Emerging Leaders program. Locally, I have served as Chair of NJLA's Professional Development Committee, co-Chaired New Jersey's Train-the-Trainer program and actively develop and present for our "Super Library Supervisors" series.

I enjoy speaking and presenting, and currently serve as President of a Toastmasters club for librarians. I'd be happy to talk to other librarians who are interested in setting up their own local chapter.

In my spare time I play as much tennis as I can and have been enjoying learning improv over the past year or two, and recently began taking guitar lessons.

COACHING

I have been offering personal coaching services (sometimes called life coaching, or executive coaching) since July, 2006. I am still learning how to do it, but seem to have a natural ability for it and enjoy it quite a bit. I am receiving training on how to be an effective coach from one of the best -- a former President of the NJ Coaches Association.

If you are interested in learning more about coaching, or think you may find value in being coached, check out my coaching page, or get in touch with me.

In addition to continuing education and staff development, I am very interested in customer service (aka customer experience) and the idea of "library as place". These interests and ideas are often informed by my experience working at Nordstrom. Sometimes I blab about these and other topics at my blog, Library Garden (http://librarygarden.blogspot.com) . Complete info about me me me is available at my homepage: peterbromberg.com