Nathan Jochum

About Nathan Jochum

Passion for libraries, the arts, non-profits, local small business retention, academics, community, collaboration, leadership, communication, emotional intelligence and stakeholder/attendee/customer services experiences skills, with twenty five years of library/non-profit/event coordination supervisory and management experience. Experience archival collection development, program, event and systems design, fundraising, grant writing and training, special events, booking live music of all genres, community and business engagement, board management, project management, data analysis, scholarly research, public relations, marketing, communications, mentoring, networking, negotiating with national artist agents, music festival development and implementation (all aspects), strategic planning, budget management, annual reports, policy development, information literacy instruction, public speaking, workshop development, technical and creative writing, as well as the ability to adapt to change and deal with difficult, high stress, situations. I get things done.

Experience

1. Director

   Utica Public Library

   Jan 2026 — Present

Education

• University of Southern Indiana

  BS

  1997 — 2001

• St. Meinrad College

  English

  1996 — 1997

• Drexel University

  Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS)

  2007 — 2009

Skills

• Creative Writing
• Library Systems
• Community Outreach
• Collection Development
• Teaching
• Digitization
• Public Libraries
• Electronic Resources
• Public Relations
• Training
• Library Programming
• Nonprofits
• Database Searching
• Books
• Academic Libraries
• Information Literacy
• Circulation
• Event Planning
• Libraries
• Archives
• Digital Libraries
• Library Research
• Virtual Reference
• Technical Writing
• Reader's Advisory
• Grants
• Library Reference
• Grant Writing
• Library Instruction
• Library Science
• Public Speaking
• Library
• Program Management
• Library Management
• Research