Page 6 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • May 1, 2013 Waldwick Laura Bultman has been named Waldwick’s new children’s librarian. When she steps into the library on May 6, she will officially replace Meghan Day, who has accepted a new post in Westchester County. “Laura Bultman distinguished herself from the moment I met her and I am thrilled that she is joining our staff,” Waldwick Library Director Lori-Ann Quinn said. “She is all the wonderful things a children’s librarian should be: warm, enthusiastic, animated, engaged, and wildly creative. I am confident she will bring a little bit of magic to our community.” Most recently, Bultman was the children’s and teen librarian at the Union City Public Library in Union City, where she had been employed since August 2011. In that position, she provided comprehensive library services to children and teens, including continuous programming for all ages from babies to teens and collection development at all levels. She also planned and implemented the summer reading program, hosted class visits and visited schools and day care centers to promote library services, and created all flyers and publicity for the branch. She New children’s librarian to begin work this month also created the library’s Facebook page and altered several aspects of library protocol to provide better service for patrons. Before she joined the Union City Library, Bultman was the children’s librarian for the Forest Hills Branch of the Queens Library in New York City. Her responsibilities included planning and presenting the summer reading events, including the end of summer parties. She also provided outreach to local day care centers and schools, and staffed the children’s reference desk. Bultman’s work with the Queens Public Library also included service as a creative movement presenter. In that capacity, she presented hour-long sessions of creative movement for toddlers at the library’s various branches. She was the children’s librarian for the Queens Public Library in Corona, Queens from 2006-10. Her duties included collection development and maintenance for the English and Spanish juvenile collections, labeling, cataloging, weeding, program development and implementation, displays and merchandising, reference, promoting library services through school and class visits, summer reading programs, and other customer service. She served on the borough-wide Children’s Book Selection Committee for three years and on the Summer Reading List Committee for Spanish titles. Bultman is fluent in Spanish and French. From 2005-06, Bultman was a library associate in the children’s department of the Champaign Public Library in Champaign, Illinois. He work included collection development, programming, bibliographic instruction, reference, and customer service. The new children’s librarian received a bachelor’s degree in theater and psychology from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She earned her master of library science degree at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cambra Road and a section of Manhattan Avenue in Waldwick will be getting paved this spring. Manhattan Avenue will be done from Ridge Road to Route 17. The Waldwick Council last week awarded a contract for the job to D&L Paving Contractors of Nutley and Ramsey at a cost of $87,778. D&L holds the Northwest Bergen Cooperative Contract for resurfacing. The Northwest Bergen County Shared Services Consortium bid the road work jointly earlier this year to capture economies of scale. The bid price for asphalt ist $74.20 a ton. In other action, the council introduced an ordinance to formalize an agreement with a Hopper Avenue resident for a utility and sewer easement at the nominal cost Contract awarded for street repaving of $1. Borough Administrator Gary Kratz explained that the easement at 31 Hopper Ave has been in place for more than 40 years but had never been recorded. The current resident, Richard Shelly, has agreed to formally convey the total area where the sewer and utility lines are already in place, and the deed of easement will be filed with the Office of the Bergen County Clerk. Kratz explained that the lack of a formal deed came to light when the Village School sought to expand recently. Filing the deed of easement is one of the requirements imposed by the board of adjustment as a condition of approval of the school’s building project.