Adult Services Consultant
Library of Virginia
Barry Trott is Adult Services Consultant at the Library of Virginia, where he helps public libraries across the Commonwealth plan and develop services for adult library users. He earned his MSLS from The Catholic University of America School of Library and Information Science in 1997 and then worked at the Williamsburg Regional Library for 24 years. Barry is past-president of the Reference and User Services Association. He edited the readers’ advisory column for RUSQ from 2004-2012 and in 2012 was appointed editor of RUSQ. He has written for NoveList database and served as series editor for Libraries Unlimited’s Read On series. He has written for numerous publications, including Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Reference Reborn, Journal of Library Administration, and Research-Based Readers’ Advisory. Barry has presented programs on books, readers, and reading for the American Library Association annual conference, the Public Library Association conference, and the Virginia Library Association conference and for library systems throughout the country. In 2007, he was awarded both the Public Library Association’s Allie Beth Martin Award and the ALA Reference and User Services Association’s Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award in recognition for his work in readers’ advisory services.
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