Jamaica, Queens, New York 11439

Florence Scarinci

A. Holly Patterson Library

Nassau Community College

One Education Drive

Garden City, NY. 11530

516 572-7405 or 572-7408

email: Florence.Scarinci@ncc.edu

 

Florence Scarinci, Professor Emerita, Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York, holds a Master’s degree in Library Science and an Advanced Certificate in Library Automation, both from St. John’s University.  Prior to retirement she was head of Library Acquisitions at Nassau Community College.  She still teaches research skills and works as an adjunct librarian at Nassau Community College and Molloy College in Rockville Centre, New York.  She has held leadership positions in several professional library organizations including the Nassau County Library Association, the  State University of New York Library Association and the Long Island Library Resources Council.  She is a reviewer for Library Journal which has published almost 100 of her reviews on animal behavior and training, animal nutrition, and the human-animal bond. She is on the advisory board of the Nassau Community College Center for Catholic Studies.  She is an active member of her parish’s Respect Life Committee, and of Feminists for Life of America, Feminists Choosing Life of New York, of which she is the Long Island liaison, and is the former secretary of Democrats for Life of America, New York chapter. She is the founder and director of the NCC Respect Life Group, a nondenominational, non partisan group of Nassau Community College faculty, staff, and students committed to offering educational programs on life issues.  Florence’s commitment to advancing the Culture of Life includes services to the disabled.  She has raised and trained service dogs for the deaf and for people with disabilities other than blindness and is an enthusiastic participant in programs that involve the use of dogs in therapeutic and educational settings. She has been married for 35 years and is the proud mother of three children and the doting grandmother of one grandson.