Gail McGovern

Gail McGovern grew up in Milton, Massachusetts and has spent many happy hours using and working in libraries. Her first experience was as a user of a branch of the Milton Public Library seven houses away from her home.

Gail received her B.A. in religion and M.S. in Library Science from Syracuse University. She worked as a student assistant at Syracuse University, library trainee at a county law library in Syracuse, bookmobile librarian, children’s librarian and city librarian with the Timberland Regional Library System (WA). She moved to California in 1973 as the project director for the Lake County Library Project. From 1974-1995, she administered grant programs, provided consulting services and conducted training programs for the Library Development Services Bureau of the California State Library.

Gail has been a full time independent consultant since 1996; her title is Planning and Training Wizard. Her recent projects include grantwriting for and coordination of three LSTA funded conferences for the clioinstitute: Imagine it, Explore it, Create it Conference, Get Real! Helping Libraries Survive and Thrive in Turbulent Times Conference and Better Together: Creating Partnerships for Community Learning Conference.

For Infopeople, Gail serves as a Recruiter/Content Coach and has taught segments on needs assessment, developing goals and objectives and evaluation for the 2002 Master Trainer Program as well as the online course, Effective Time Management for Library Staff in 2004 and 2005.