Abigail Ahlers

Over 4 years of Librarian experience in the private school and public spheres. Experience as a Front of House Barista and Server as well as school gardening and teaching experience.

Librarian, December 2023-Present

City of Santa Clarita, CA

• Develops, schedules, and conducts public programs, including instruction classes.
• Provides outreach services to the local community, including middle and high schools.
• Works on assigned work committees to plan and implement large-scale library programming.
• Assists in promoting library collections and displays and develops marketing strategies to engage the community.
• Trains, schedules, and leads library staff and volunteers.

Archivist, August 2023 -November 2023

History Associates Incorporated, Rockville, MD

Project for the City of Manhattan Beach

• Arranged, rehoused, processed, and cataloged 400 linear feet of archival material.
• Preserved, rehoused, processed, and cataloged over 250 historical objects.
• Verified specific catalog fields with exceptional data entry.

Middle and High School Librarian, February 2021-July 2023

Village Christian School, Sun Valley, CA

• Developed and implemented new instruction programs on research, digital, and media literacy skills to benefit the school community.
• Collection management: curated and diversified collection development by 35%. Increased physical and electronic circulation of materials by 30%.
• Created and developed the library collection and donation policies as well as enforced library policies and procedures.
• Supervised: Student volunteers, and student teaching assistants, collaborated with faculty including the Art, Social science, English, Math, and Science departments.
• Planned and implemented successful programs: student poetry contest and reading, author/poet visits, coding workshops, art displays, and summer reading.

Digital Marketing Director, August 2020-January 2021

All Love Collections, Pasadena, CA

• Built, implemented, and updated effective SEO strategies, created dynamic graphics, and utilized exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading skills to produce engaging content resulting in an increase in website and social media traffic by 25%.

Assistant Librarian/Test Center Coordinator, October 2019-July 2020

Oaks Christian School, Westlake Village, CA

• Led the All-High School Student Testing Program with over 15 classes.
• Led workshops to cultivate student literacy and research skills in person and over Zoom.
• Cataloged mixed media into the Alexandria database and supervised the circulation desk.
• Created fliers to post throughout the school informing patrons of upcoming events including book clubs, meetings, and special programs.

Marciano Art Foundation - Visitor Services Associate Los Angeles, CA 10/2018 - 06/2019

Lead student tour groups and activities, enforced rules to ensure the safety of visitors and artwork.

Educated visitors about art within MAF and assisted during high profile art events.

Programming/Marketing Intern, Spring 2018 Seeds to Plate, Los Angeles, CA

• Created and implemented brand-new student health programs. • Constructed lesson plans for 8th-grade science classes.

Rest Farmhouse Inspired - “Front of the House”

Montrose, CA Summer 2018

Customer Education, Counter Food Service, Cash Handling, Inventory.

Bachelor’s Degree from UCLA in Art History and a minor in Food Studies. Masters degree from the University of Alabama in Library and information science with an archiving concentration.