Cedric Rose

I'm an award-winning journalist, writer, and librarian, skilled at interviewing, researching, writing, grant-writing. 

Freelance Writer 1998-present

• Research, write, and edit pitched and assigned stories on deadline..
• Interview and audio-record subjects including business leaders, local politicians best-selling authors. 
• Subject specialties include environmental and social justice, sustainability, culture, history, books, gardening, education, music

Librarian – The Mercantile Library  2004-Present

• Collection maintenance, circulation, and acquisition processes.

to provide superb library service 

• Fulfill reference and research inquiries.
• Write grants and implement grant-funded document-conservation projects, retrospective catalog migrations,

and OPAC and ILS implementations (III SIERRA, Koha ILS).

• Manage digital licenses and subscriptions for online resources. 
• Write and edit copy for library publications, print, email, and online.
• Lead classes workshops and classes for teens and adults on subjects including from literature, creative writing, e-reader technologies, and information literacy. 
• De Facto technician for office IT network and event audio/visual technology.
• Implementation of software-based library management tools: III Sierra, Koha ILS, and website content management systems. 

Interlibrary Loan Lending Technician – Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina 2001-2004

• Coordinate book, document, and resource retrieval with small staff of international student workers, for delivery across regional and global interlibrary loan networks.
• Collaborate with Interlibrary Loan Department staff, school faculty, consortia partners and ILL lenders world-wide to fulfill information needs and document requests.
• Maintain reciprocal borrower agreements and relationships.
• Adhere to document delivery protocols, licensing arrangements, and copyright law in fulfillment of requests.

EXTRAPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cincinnati USA Books by the Banks Book Festival

Author Selection Committee 2010 – 2016

Select authors for annual book festival, organize festival, plan and execute festival programming 

Writing and Editing Panel Committee            2013

Create, plan, execute Writing and Publishing Programming. Conceive and execute Books by the Banks Writing Contest   

Cincinnati School for the Creative and Performing Arts Professional Advisory Committee                                    2019-present

GRANT WRITING AND GRANT–FUNDED PROJECTS

2022 FotoFocus Biennial “World Record” ($7700) for “J.P. Ball: a Black Daguerreotypist, Activist,  2022

and Entrepreneur in 19th Century Cincinnati” (Opening 9/29/2022)

Ohio History Fund Grant ($8,692) “Conserving Minutes Books of. Cincinnati's Mercantile Library” 2020

 (Conservation, rebinding, digitization)

LSTA Preservation Grant ($4,999) – Preservation and Digitization of Mercantile Library Visitor Register 1872-1918  2019

LSTA Retrospective Conversion grant ($101,531)                                   2010

McLane Foundation Grants for Books By the Banks “Writing and Getting Published” programming ($12,500)       2015, 2016

AWARDS

First Place All Ohio Journalism Award, Press Club of Cleveland, Environmental Writing 2023

First Place All Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards, Environmental Writing for “The Genius of Water”   2022

First Place Freelance Feature Writing Ohio Society of Professional Journalists            2022

First Place CCM Radio Theatre Playwright Competition 2021

Greater Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists “Excellence in Journalism” Finalist for “Big Data Gets Personal” 2016

Shakespeare Prize, McMicken College of Arts & Sciences 2001

Hopton Short Story Prize, McMicken College of Arts & Sciences 2001

Koons Lafcadio Hearn Journalism Prize, McMicken College of Arts & Sciences  2001

Kent State University

MA, Library and Information Science 2014

University of Cincinnati

BA, English Composition and Literature 2001