Peter Bromberg

Current

• Assistant Director at South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative
• Consultant at QandANJ

Past

• Member at CLENE
• Co-Coordinator at Train the Trainer
• Head of Reference Services at Camden County Library

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Education

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Libraries

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Website

Peter Bromberg’s Summary

I am the Assistant Director of non-profit library consortia in South Jersey. I have worked in libraries since 1992, including work as a reference librarian, a young adult librarian, and a special librarian the EPA. Prior to working as a librarian I worked for Nordstrom and got all customer servicey.

My areas of experience and interest are:

- Customer Service
- Training (including train-the-trainer)
- Communicating for results
- Speaking
- Coaching
- Virtual Reference
- Practical application of Web 2.0/Social Software
- Improv

I' am available to speak or present on these topics.

Peter Bromberg’s Specialties:

Coaching, Visioning, Customer Service, Presenting, Supervising, Training, Problem Solving

Peter Bromberg’s Experience

• Assistant Director

  South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative

  (Libraries industry)

  Currently holds this position

• Consultant

  QandANJ

  (Libraries industry)

  2001 — Present (7 years)

• Member

  CLENE

  (Libraries industry)

  2001 — 2008 (7 years)

• Co-Coordinator

  Train the Trainer

  (Libraries industry)

  2000 — 2005 (5 years)

• Head of Reference Services

  Camden County Library

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Libraries industry)

  July 1997 — June 2001 (4 years)

  Head of Reference, Periodicals and Interlibrary Loan services. Supervised a staff of fifteen professionals and eleven support staff, ensuring quality reference service to all patrons. Developed a strong, customer service oriented reference team, bringing in technology to improve skills and streamline workflow, delivering service on two busy public service desks. Participated on Strategic Planning Team that used PLA’s “Planning for Results” model. As Grant Coordinator, oversaw the provision of twenty Internet classes per year to colleagues throughout South Jersey. Oversaw customer education training program that provides Internet classes to over one thousand patrons per year. Developed and taught various information literacy Internet classes. Oversaw all content and design of library website (http://www.camden.lib.nj.us). Designed and implemented a web-based periodicals database and a web-based version of popular print and electronic, “Guide to Elected Officials”.

Peter Bromberg’s Education

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

  1984 — 1992

Additional Information

Peter Bromberg’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Website

Peter Bromberg’s Interests:

Coaching, Customer Service, Leadership, Web 2.0, Improv, Tennis, Pretending to learn how to play the guitar

Peter Bromberg’s Groups:

Toastmasters, American Library Association, Public Library Association, NJLA, NJASL,, USTA

•    Rutgers College Alumni Class of 1988 member
•    SpeakerMatch member
•    Library Society of the World member

Peter Bromberg’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch