MLS Program Manager moderates a career panel of iSchool alums:
April Shroeder earned her MLS from the University of Maryland, College Park in December 2010. Within six months of graduation, April found full-time employment as a Teen Services Librarian in Loudoun County Public Library in Virginia. In October 2014 April was promoted to Youth Programming Coordinator for Library Administration and no longer works as an Xbox Controller-passer-outer. April’s eight years of library work have included founding teen programming in a rural library, coordinating teen volunteer programs for more than 100 youth, providing weekly storytime to an underserved community, and managing the Summer Reading Program. She is a graduate of the 2014 class of the Virginia Library Leadership Academy and presented a workshop at the 2015 Delaware/Maryland Library Association Conference on Understanding Teen Emotional and Neurological Development.
Joanna Gadsby graduated from UMCP's M.L.I.S. program in 2007 and has worked at UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery since 2009. She is currently the instruction coordinator as well as a reference and instruction librarian. Her professional interests include active learning, effective outreach, and critical librarianship.
Jonathan Barney started off in libraries in high school volunteering at his public library and then when he attended Utah State University, he worked in the Special Collections and Archives. He returned to school to obtain his MLS at the University of Maryland, College Park while working at the Library of Congress as a contract employee for LAC Group. Upon graduation, he was eventually promoted to Project Manager at LAC and ultimately supervised a staff of 50. In 2015, he was offered the opportunity to come work for the LAC Group offices as a manager overseeing nearly a dozen libraries, archives, and information services projects in the DC metropolitan area.
