Barb Tinklenberg has over 20 years of experience as a teacher-librarian and educator. She received her Master's in Information Technology for Library Science from the University of Colorado Denver in 2002. Most recently, she worked as the teacher-librarian at Alameda High School in Lakewood, Colorado from 2002 to 2014, when she retired. She is looking for new employment opportunities where she can continue helping students, especially those from other countries, feel comfortable and find their place.

1. Barb Tinklenberg
9525 Newton St.
Westminster, Co 80031
303-349-1083
barbjoy.1083@gmail.com
Employment
Teacher-Librarian
Alameda High School
1255 S. Wadsworth Blvd.
Lakewood, CO 80232
303-982-8160
Principal Susie Van Scoyk
August 2002 – August 2014
Reason I resigned: Retired
Standley Lake High School
Westminster, CO
303-952-3311
Part-time Assistant Teacher Librarian
Teacher-librarian, Marty Harris
September 15, 2001 – July 31, 2002
Took full time job at Alameda High School
Substitute teacher for several school districts
Adams City district, Denver Christian Schools, Westminster School District
January 1, 2000 – September 15, 2001
Started Part time at Standley Lake High School
Denver Christian High and Middle School
Lakewood, CO
Assistant Teacher Librarian in high school and middle school and Compter Lab Teacher for
grades K-6
August, 1996-December, 2000
Retired supervisor: I left to continue my Master’s in Information Technology in Library Science
at University of Colorado at Denver
Principal Rich Schemper
Eldora Public Library
Eldora, IA
Part time Children’s Librarian in small town public library
March 1992 – December 1995
Moved to Colorado

2. Education
University of Colorado at Denver
Graduated in August, 2002
Master’s in Information Technology for Library Science in the School of Education
Several summer workshops at TIE (Technology in Education) at Copper, Colorado
Summers of 1998, 1999, and 2002
University of Northern Iowa
2 courses for Educator’s Certification
June 1992
Dordt College
Sioux Center, IA
BA in Education, History major with a Political Science minor
Graduated in May, 1975
Future Goals
I worked for Jefferson County School District for 11 1/2 years. I am looking for employment in
an area where I feel that I can be a benefit to society.
I have been working with children from infants to high school students since my graduation
from Dordt College in 1975. I love working with teachers and children especially students in
high school who are from other countries, helping them feel comfortable and finding their
place in this new world called America. Alameda High School is in low income working class
neighborhood. The parents work hard to survive. The school is making tremendous strides. It
has 30% white students who speak English at home. That means that the 70% of the rest of the
1000 students are from all over the world and speak two and three languages. Many have
come to our school with no English skills and many have limited education in their home
country. Many of these students came to the library because it was a safe place especially at
lunch times. I made an extra effort to greet them and try to help them with their class work
and treat them like adults. These students often made my job very rewarding and as a
geography teacher, I knew where they came from and something about their country OR I
made the effort to ask them and find out. It was the most rewarding part of my position. I also
love history, politics and geography so teaching students and teachers about this world and
how to do research was the second most rewarding part of my past positions. I would like to
continue working with others to create a better world.
I was also an English, History, Political Science and Substitute teacher in my 20 year educator’s
career. My other areas of interest are the humanities: art history, world history, politics and
government, geography, archives and research. I can understand and read Spanish but my
speaking ability in Spanish is more limited (I have trouble with past and future verb tenses).
References
Available upon request