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Cynthia Barrancotto
Barrancotto.Consults!
Houston, Texas
Cynthia Barrancotto's career as a librarian and information professional spans a period of 25 years. Her first job was as a reference librarian in Houston's Central Library, a busy downtown public library setting. Three years later she was offered a position at the corporate headquarters of an international waste disposal company and she counts that move as her first venture into special librarianship. Subsequent positions included being the manager of a law library in a small patent & trademark firm and then moving to that firm's major client as the Director of Information Resources, a one-person librarianship endeavor that lasted for seven years. Down-sizing followed and she made the decision to pursue the master's degree which included a move to Austin. During the two years there she offered her services to fellow students and was elected SLA Student Chapter President.
After graduate school Cynthia moved to Florida to help care for her mother and to work at Proctor Library as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Flagler College; this part of her life lasted ten years and in addition to family and work responsibilities she joined the Florida & Caribbean Chapter and started doctoral work at Florida State University. After her mother's death, she returned to Houston and founded © Barrancotto.Consults! - a creativity and knowledge services consultancy that focuses on the delivery of knowledge services and creativity training.
Cynthia has served SLA at the local, regional and national levels and is an active member of both the Florida & Caribbean Chapter and the Texas Chapter. She is a Past President of the Florida & Caribbean Chapter and was successful in getting the Chapter to embrace and implement a platform she designed, 'Create~Collaborate~Connect'. Other board positions in this Chapter included serving as a Director and as Mentoring Chair. She has been a member of the Legal Division since its creation in 1993; the Knowledge Management Division; and the Solo Division, having served as Solo's Division Archivist from 1994-1996. Cynthia is a new member of the Archival & Preservation Caucus; she was SLA's Liasion to the Society of American Archivists in the mid-nineties. Past Division memberships have been in the Environment & Resource Management Division and the Education Division.
Most recently she served as Co-Chair of SLA's South Atlantic Regional Conference held in St. Petersburg, Florida. "SARC IV: The Surreal Landscape: Information Professionals Mastering the Challenges of Time & Space" http://units.sla.org/regconf/sarc4 evolved from an idea to a theme focused on the surreal way in which time, space and technology warp at amazing speeds forcing information professionals to move forward and embrace these changes, or stand the chance of being left behind or lost in them. Active also in SARC III she served as a member of the Program Steering Committee and was a program presenter. She enjoys speaking and presenting to professional groups and sharing her passion for creativity-based research, specifically focused on how a person's work setting, with its unique 'small world' norms, is related to individual creative output and star performance.
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