Congratulations to our Mover & Shaker!

The Rio Hondo College Library proudly congratulates adjunct librarian Monique Delatte for being chosen by Library Journal as one of 2010’s Movers and Shakers in the library world.

Selected in the category of Change Agents, Monique was cited for her success in teen programming and for obtaining a total of more than $57,000 in grants over the last two years for both Rio Hondo College and La Puente Library, her full-time “home.” With her nomination and selection, Monique joins a select group of librarians honored by Library Journal from several nations and all departments of the library world.

The $35,500 total grant monies that Monique obtained from Verizon and Target for the Rio Hondo College Library went to several projects: an online, interactive information literacy tutorial, the development of new library instruction geared specifically to the Child Development classes, a new Story Time program in cooperation with the College’s Child Development department and the Child Development Center/Lab School, and the recent “storigami” presentation by renowned storyteller Christine Petrell Kallevig. Funds were also used to purchase children’s books, storytelling materials, as well as books supporting the Child Development curriculum on early childhood literacy for the Library.

See Monique’s complete profile here.

This is the ninth year that the Movers and Shakers awards have been handed out by Library Journal, the oldest and most respected publication covering the library field. More than 100,000 library directors, administrators, and staff in public, academic, and special libraries subscribe to this monthly “’bible’ of the library world,” now on its 133^rd year of publication.