Personal Resume - Glenn A. Walsh

                                                P.O. Box 1041

                                                Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230-1041 U.S.A.

                                                Telephone: 412-561-7876

                                                Electronic Mail: < gawalsh@andrewcarnegie.cc >

 

Education:

 

B.A. Journalism with emphasis in Urban Affairs (Honors Program, Phi Eta Sigma,

Phi Beta Kappa), University of Kentucky, Lexington: 1978.

Shaler Area High School, Glenshaw, Pennsylvania (National Honor Society): 1974.

 

Library-Related Experience:

 

Member of Friends of the Library, West End Branch, The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; attend meetings of System-wide Friends of the Library Council: 2011 May to Present.

Participated in 3-person panel, “Carnegie Libraries: Challenges and Solutions,” at

2006 National Preservation Conference sponsored by National Trust for Historic Preservation; delivered address "Primary Impediments to Historic Preservation: EGO and MONEY !": 2006 November 3.

Organized celebration of centennial of dedication of Andrew Carnegie Free Library

and Music Hall, Carnegie, Pennsylvania; delivered address on Library history: 2002 October 8.

Web Site Administrator, History of Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Libraries Web

Site: < http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc >: 1999 to Present.

Consulting Editor, Cobblestone national history magazine for children, for issue

with theme of life and philanthropies of Andrew Carnegie: 1999 April.

Taught monthly “Introduction to the Internet” class for library patrons of Andrew

Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall, Carnegie, Pennsylvania: 1996 to 2001.

Web Site Administrator, Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall Web Site:

< http://www.einetwork.net/ein/andrcarn >: 1996 to 2000.

Life Trustee, Board of Trustees, Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall,

Carnegie, Pennsylvania (Treasurer 1 year; Secretary 2 years): 1995 to 2000.

Delegate to Allegheny County Library Association, representing Andrew Carnegie

Free Library and Music Hall, Carnegie, Pennsylvania: 1995 to 1999.

Managed Summer Reading Program, Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall,

Carnegie, Pennsylvania: 1995.

Library Aide, Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall,      Carnegie,

Pennsylvania: 1990 to 1993.

 

 

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Museum-Related Experience:

 

Project Director, Friends of the Zeiss, Pittsburgh, non-profit organization seeking to preserve

and restore historic equipment and artifacts of Pittsburgh’s original Buhl

Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science: 2002 to Present.

Delivered invited address, Great Lakes Planetarium Association, on the history of

Pittsburgh’s Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science: 2001 October 13.

Web Site Administrator, History of The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular

Science, Pittsburgh Web Site: < http://www.planetarium.cc >: 1999 to Present.

Coordinator, Weekly Tours, Civil War Museum (Captain Thomas Espy Post,

Number 153, Grand Army of the Republic) of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall, Carnegie, Pennsylvania: 1999 to 2000.

Buhl Science Center/Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh: 1982 to 1992 --

Astronomical Observatory Coordinator, Planetarium Lecturer, Curator of Embryology Exhibit (hatched chicks and ducklings in exhibit Mr. Walsh created in 1983), taught Chicken Embryology class, Floor Aide.

 

Educator, Informal Science Education:

 

Authored articles for Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers regarding three

Pittsburgh astronomers (Brashear, Langley, Keeler): 2007.

Project Director, Friends of the Zeiss, Pittsburgh, non-profit organization providing

astronomical and scientific information to the public via telescope observing sessions and Internet web site information: 2002 to Present.

Buhl Science Center/Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh: 1982 to 1992 --

Astronomical Observatory Coordinator, Planetarium Lecturer, Curator of Embryology Exhibit (hatched chicks and ducklings in exhibit Mr. Walsh created in 1983), taught Chicken Embryology class, Floor Aide.

General Manager, WLCR-AM Carrier Current radio station, at Summer camp for

boys & girls (Camp Shaw-Mi-Del-Eca) near White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Taught students basic radio theory and radio station operation: 1972 to 1977.

 

Community Service:

 

Web Site Administrator, Official Web Site of The Duquesne Incline, Pittsburgh:

            < http://www.incline.cc >: 1998 to Present:

Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission (now Southwestern

Pennsylvania Commission), Pittsburgh

Citizen Advisory Panel: 1994 to 1998.

Citizens’ Transit Advisory Committee: 1980 to 1981.

Allegheny Conference on Community Development, Transit Planning Advisory

Task Force, Pittsburgh: 1987.

Port Authority of Allegheny County, Allegheny County Transit Council, Pittsburgh

(Charter Member): 1984 to 1989.





Created 2009 July 22. Updated 2012 Jan. 3.