ABOUT OUR AUTHORS

Helen Adams is a former school librarian and technology coordinator in Wisconsin and currently an online instructor for Mansfield University teaching Access and Legal Issues for the Information Age. A frequent conference presenter, she is the author of School Media Policy Development and co-author of Privacy in the 21st Century: Issues for Public, School, and Academic Libraries published by Libraries Unlimited.

Carolyn S. Brodie (cbrodie@kent.edu), Ph.D., is a Professor, Kent State University, School of Library and Information Science, 314 Library, Kent, OH 44242.

Greg Byerly (gbyerly@kent.edu), Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University, in Kent, OH.

Daniel Callison (callison@iupui.edu), is a Professor, Indiana University School of Library and Information Science and Executive Associate Dean at Indianapolis (http://www.slis.iupui.edu/) and the Director of School Library Media Education Blue Ribbon Online Certification (http://eduscapes.com/blueribbon).

Pat Franklin is a library media specialist at Timber Creek High School in East Orlando, Florida and is a National Board Certified Teacher in Library Media.

Judy Freeman is a consultant, writer, and speaker on children's literature, and the author of Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3 (Libraries Unlimited, 2006). Judy's website: http://www.JudyReadsBooks.com.

Sharron L. McElmeel is director of McBookwords, an online instructor for the University of Wisconsin - Stout, and an author of several books about authors and illustrators including Authors in the Kitchen: Recipes, Stories, and More (Libraries Unlimited, 2005). Sharron's website: http://www.mcelmeel.com.

Barbara Ripp Safford (barbara.safford@uni.edu) is Associate Professor at the School Library Media Studies, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. She has been a middle school and elementary school library media specialist in Maryland, a high school media specialist in Ohio, and a public library director in Pennsylvania.

Claire Stephens (cgstephens@cfl.rr.com) is a National Board Certified Teacher in Library Media and has worked as a Media Specialist first on the Middle School level and most recently at Freedom High School in south Orlando, FL.

Gary Zingher (zinghertp@optonline.net) was previously library media specialist 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.