JOB, Amy G. 1942-

PERSONAL:

Born March 8, 1942, in Orange, NJ; daughter of George Calvert (a railway employee) and Amy Clark (a homemaker; maiden name, Barrett) Segear; married Kenneth A. Job, Sr. (a professor), November 8, 1968; children: Karen A., Anna Marie, Kenneth A., Jr. Ethnicity: "White." Education: Montclair State University, B.A., 1964, M.Ed., 1978; Rutgers University, M.L.S., 1966; Seton Hall University, Ed.D., 1986. Politics: Republican. Hobbies and other interests: Gardening, music.

ADDRESSES:

Home—5 Navajo Trail, West Milford, NJ 07480-3609. Office—Library, William Paterson University of New Jersey, 300 Pompton Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470; fax: 973-720-2585. E-mail—joba@wpunj.edu.

CAREER:

State University of New York—College at Potsdam, Potsdam, librarian, 1965-67; William Paterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, NJ, librarian, 1968—, instructor and director of educational media program, 1969—. Rutgers University, workshop instructor. National History Day, member of New Jersey committee, 2002—; West Milford Bicentennial Committee, secretary; Kinnelon Public Library, volunteer.

MEMBER:

Educational Media Association (liaison to New Jersey Library Association), New Jersey Library Association, Pi Lambda Theta (vice president of Beta Chi chapter).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Distinguished Service Award, New Jersey Library Association, 1992.

WRITINGS:

From Point to Cape: A Selective Bibliography of the New Jersey Collection at William Paterson College, New Jersey Historical Commission, 1982.

(With MaryKay W. Schnare) Reference Work in School Library Media Centers, Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD), 1996.

(With MaryKay W. Schnare) The School Library Media Specialist as Manager, Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD), 1997.

(With MaryKay W. Schnare) Now What Do I Do? Things They Never Taught in Library School—A Book of Case Studies, Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD), 2001.

Contributor to Exploring the United States through Literature, Volume 3: Northeastern United States, Oryx Press, 1994. Contributor of articles and reviews to library journals, including New Jersey Libraries.

SIDELIGHTS:

Amy G. Job told CA: "The majority of my writings have been in the library field, and most have resulted from previous works or felt needs. For example, many of my articles resulted from contacts with librarians all over New Jersey as I worked on my dissertation, 'Development of the Library Network Structure in New Jersey: An Historical-Analytical Study.'

"The most interesting, and to me the most rewarding, have been the three latest books. The reference text, Reference Work in School Library Media Centers, came about from the need for more updated case studies than the ones that had been published in the 1970s. I use case studies in my teaching and inquired from Scarecrow Press if a newer approach was in the planning. The reply was 'no,' and after a year of cogitating over the need, I decided that I would take Scarecrow's offer and write the book. Since I am an academic librarian, it was decided that I should have a school librarian as a coauthor. The wife of a former student was a school library media specialist in Providence, Rhode Island, and she agreed to write with me. It was a 'match made in heaven,' in that we had no disagreements over style, content, et cetera, and that we wrote in a very similar style. In fact, we are the only ones who know which cases were written by whom!

"To add to the experience, our editor was the former president of the American Association of School Librarians. She was most supportive, an editor who really understood what we were doing. She was the one who encouraged us to write the other two books.

"For me, the reward comes when I use the works in my classes. I assign students to read and answer the cases on the levels of the schools for which they are studying, and I have had very satisfying feedback on the realism and currency of the cases."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Libraries, September, 2001, Cathleen Bourdon, review of Now What Do I Do? Things They Never Taught in Library School—A Book of Case Studies, p. 86.