SUE SWANTON

284 Gatewood Ave.
Rochester, NY 14624
(585) 247-0142
sswanton@rochester.rr.com

• Director, Gates Public Library 9/1/65 - 3/21/03. Supervised 50+ employees, 23 volunteers with a library budget in excess of 1.2 million. Library famous for innovative services such as 1st Drive up Window in NYS [1993], Electronic and MP3 Books 2000-1 http://www.gateslibrary.org
• Director, Warsaw Public Library, Warsaw, NY 1963-1964
• Part time substitute school librarian, Gates Chili Central School 2003-

• AB Harvard University 1963 [American Government major]
• MLS Columbia University 1965

• Chairperson, Gates Democratic Committee, 3-04 - [Note Committee had been inactive since 1997]
• Member, Monroe County Democratic Committee, 3-04 -
• President 4/06- , Newsletter Editor, Empire Friends Roundtable, New York Library Association, 4/04- , Board member 4/03-
• Secretary, Gates Chili Chamber of Commerce, 5/04 - , previously President 1982, and Board member and Secretary mid 1970's to mid 1980's, 4/03 - 5/04 http://www.gcchamber.com Also serve on Chamber Awards and Program Committees
• Secretary, Friends of Gates Public Library 4/03-5/04, 5/05-5/06;VP-Secretary 5/04-5/05
• Board member 2003 -, Secretary, Friends of Rochester Public Library 5/04-5/05
• Usher, Church of the Epiphany http://www.epiphanygatesny.org
• Advisory Board and local interviewer, Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Rochester [many years] http://clubs.harvard.edu/university/hrcrochester/

• Founding President, Gates Historical Society, 1998 - 6/02; VP 6/02-6/03, Chair, Archives, Collection Management, and Arcadia Publications Committees 6/03 - 5/05 http://www.gateshistory.org
• Secretary, Rochester Free-Net Board 1999- ; Volunteer Coordinator, 1995-2005  http://www.ggw.org
• Co-Chairperson, Town Library Directors Council, 1978 - 2003
• Secretary, Gates Historic Preservation Commission 7/00 - 7/03 [Original Commission member and co-author of historical preservation ordnance adopted by Town of Gates 4/2000]
• President, Drug and Alcohol Council Board (several years 1980s), Board, 1979 - 1989
• Volunteer, Heads On Straight [festival seating concerts, War Memorial), 1979 - 1989
• Membership person, Rochester Chapter, Archeological Institute of America 1999 - 2003
• Board of Directors, Harvard Club of Rochester, early 1980's
• Several Gates-Chili School committees, including Continuing Education Advisory Board

• 'Gates' Arcadia Publishers, a pictorial history of the Town of Gates 2005.  Advocated and coordinated project for Gates Historical Society.
• "Using a Collection Agency", chapter 4, Managing Overdues, a how to do it manual for professional librarians, Neal Schuman publishers, 1998
• "Minds Alive: What and Why Gifted Students Read for Pleasure" featured article in School Library Journal, March 1984. [Article later selected for inclusion in Library Lit.15-The best of 1984; article also quoted in some textbooks for Children's Literature courses.]

• Local Leader of the Year, 2004, Monroe County Democratic Committee
• Citizen of the Year 1994, Gates Chili Chamber of Commerce
• Who's Who in America, several editions

• 3 children, Michael (age 36, NYU 1993; Univ. of Paris 1998, doctoral student University of Leiden, the Netherlands; married Ingrid Santilli, Rome, Italy; now linguist, Santo Domingo Museum, Oaxaca, Mexico), Kathryn (age 21, Senior, Nazareth College), Kristin (age 21, Senior, Syracuse University)
  

Standing: L to R Archeologist friend of Michael with Michael Swanton
Seated L to R: Sue Swanton, Kathryn Swanton, Kristin Swanton, grand-daughter Valentina, and Ingrid Santilli Swanton, Michael's wife at Thai restaurant, Oaxaca, Mexico, August 12, 2007