Cyndee’s CV
Institution: Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
Your Job Title: CEO-Director
Library type: Public
Officer Seats: None
Board Seat Category: General
Please list all BCALA involvement::
- 2005 Recipient of E.J. Josey Scholarship
- 2015 ALA Annual BCALA Presentation: And A Librarian Will Lead Them
- 2015 NCAAL Managing in Troubled Water
Community Service
- Evansville African American Heritage Trail-Steering Committee
- Evansville Alumnae Chapter- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.-Treasurer/Arts & Letters Committee
- Evansville Diversity Lecture Series-Board Member
- Project Reveal-Board Member
- Rosarium Publishing- Editorial Board Member
- Southwest Indiana Area Health Education Center-Advisory Board Member
Professional Activities & Extra-Curricular: (Volunteer, offices held, honors/awards, publications, etc.): Professional Activities
- American Library Association
- ALA Councilor-at-Large 2015-2017
- Spectrum Scholar Advisory Committee 2015-2017
- Traveling Exhibit Grant Reviewer 2008-2010
- Arizona Library Association
- President 2009-2010
- Conference Committee 2004
- InfoPeople Building an Effective Learning Culture Mentor 2017
- Public Library Association Equity Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce
Presentations, Publications & Research
- “Managing and Leading in Troubled Waters”
National Conference of African American Librarians Panelist-August 2015 - “And A Librarian Will Lead Them: Librarians at the Forefront of Grassroots Community Endeavors”
American Library Association Annual Conference Panelist- 2015 - Comstock, S.L., Copeny, J. & Landrum, C. (2015). Code as code: Speculations on diversity, inequity, and digital women. Code4Lib 28, Retrieved from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10470
- “East Cleveland Public Library: The Future Focused Library”
East Cleveland Public Library Board of Trustees Retreat Facilitator -2015 - “Turning Outward: Culturing Community Inquiry in Public Library Practice”
Association of Library and Information Science Educators Conference Juried Paper Co-Presenter-2015 - “The Final Funding Frontier: Enterprising Libraries and Entrepreneurial Librarians”
Pennsylvania Library Association Southwest Chapter Spring Workshop Co-Presenter-2013 - Landrum, C., Morris, S., McNeil, K. & Walter, T. (2012). User Content Creation, Copyright, and Fair Use in 2027: Scenarios for Libraries [unpublished]
- Landrum, C. (2012). African American Women Public Library Directors: A Focus on Race and Gender [unpublished]
- “Beyond Malcolm, Martin & the Month of February: Practicing African American Librarianship the other 337 days of the year”
University of Arizona SIRLS Student Association Program Panelist-2010 - “Diversity in the Desert: Programming for diversity on a parched budget”
Arizona Library Association Pre-Conference Program Panelist-2006
Accomplishments/Awards & Honors::
- Recognized by the City of Scottsdale and the Arizona Coalition for the Arts for promoting diversity, cultural understanding and social justice through library programs and services
- Cultivated key relationships government agencies, schools, non-profits and social enterprises in the Oak park Public Library that resulted in following initiatives:
- Community Mentoring Initiative: A pilot project, in collaboration with the Mentorship Institute, to engage staff and young adult learners in project management training and project based learning
- Hacking Hemingway: An $87,000 grant funded project digitizing Ernest Hemingway artifacts in partnership with
- Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Oak Park Elementary School District 97
- Humanity 101: Partnership with Arizona State University to promote understanding and dialogue between individuals and across communities through humanities disciplines
What skills/experiences make you a good candidate to be an officer of BCALA?:
I bring considerable administrative and leadership experience from my work in libraries, professional and community organizations. In addition, I bring a fresh perspective in terms of how LIS professionals can think about and redefine their work and organizations.
Name 3 specific things you see that need to be done to strengthen the Black Caucus?:
- Improve engagement with BCALA membership
- Increase access to leadership development to support organizational sustainability and representation in the profession
- Innovate the conference format to draw a broader and wider audience.