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Helen Adams is a former school librarian and technology coordinator in Wisconsin and currently an online instructor for Mansfield University. She is co-author of Privacy in the 21st Century: Issues for Public, School, and Academic Libraries (Libraries Unlimited, 2005) and author of Ensuring Intellectual Freedom and Access to Information in the School Library, a book on intellectual freedom in the school library (Libraries Unlimited, 2008). |
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Carolyn S. Brodie is a professor at the School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio; the Reinberger Children's Library Center & Marantz Picturebook Collection Director; and the Virginia Hamilton Conference Director. She is also the ALSC 2012-2013 president. |
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Sharon Coatney was a school librarian and teacher in Kansas for 30 years. She is a past president of the American Association of School Librarians, a former Councilor-at-Large of the American Library Association, and was chair of the Standards Writing Committee for School Library Media, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She is the co-author with Marilyn Arnone of the educator's guides to the Mac, Information Detective series (LU, 2005, 2006, and 2007) and is the editor of The Many Faces of School Library Leadership (LU, 2010). Currently, she is serving as the Sr. Acquisitions Editor for School Library Media, Libraries Unlimited, a Division of ABC-Clio. |
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Kristin Fontichiaro is a clinical assistant professor and coordinator of the school library media program at the University of Michigan School of Information. She is the author of several professional books, including Active Learning Through Drama, Podcasting, and Puppetry and Podcasting at School and co-author of Story Starters and Science Notebooking: Developing Student Thinking Through Literacy and Inquiry. She is the editor of 21st-Century Learning in School Libraries (Libraries Unlimited, 2009). She also writes informational texts for middle grade readers. Named an Emerging Leader by the American Library Association and Distinguished Alumna by the Wayne State University Library and Information Science Program, she blogs about school libraries for SLM at http://blog.schoollibrarymedia.com. |
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Kathy Fredrick is the Director of Libraries and Instructional Technology for the Shaker Heights City Schools in Ohio. She has worked in school libraries at all grade levels in Ohio, Wisconsin, Australia, and Germany. |
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Mary J. Johnson, MLS, is a writer, consultant, and frequent workshop presenter. She is a Library of Congress American Memory Fellow and a Teaching with Primary Sources Ambassador—Colorado. Mary is the author of two books: Primary Sources in the Library: A Collaboration Guide for Library Media Specialists (Linworth, 2003) and Primary Source Teaching the Web 2.0 Way, K-12 (Linworth, 2009). She also writes "The Primary Source Librarian" blog for school librarians, teachers, technology specialists, and other educators. |
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Karla H. Wendelin, Ph.D., is a retired elementary school librarian from Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, Nebraska. She teaches courses in the library media program at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and children’s and young adult literature for Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. For additional titles and information related to the books reviewed in her column, visit her website: http://www.prairiesunshine.net/logcablib/logcabinlibrarian.html. |
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Gary Zingher was previously the school librarian at Corlears School in New York City. He is the author of At the Pirate Academy (American Library Association, 1990) and Theme Play: Exciting Young Imaginations (Libraries Unlimited, 2006), and was previously Imagination Consultant at the Children's Workshop in New York City. |
