Speakers
Kevin King
Kevin King is Lead Librarian in Teen Services at the Kalamazoo Public Library. He recently served as a member of the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Award Committee and is currently a member of the Teen Read Week Committee and the 2007 Great Graphic Novels Committee. Kevin writes a monthly column for VOYA about teen programming called "Get with the Program."
RoseMary Honnold
RoseMary Honnold is the Young Adult Services Coordinator for the Coshocton Public Library in Coshocton, Ohio and is serving on the YALSA Teen Read Week Committee. She is the creator of the "See YA Around" website and the author of: 101 + Teen Programs that Work; Serving Seniors; More Teen Programs that Work; and The Teen Reader's Advisor.
Marsha Qualey
Marsha Qualey is the author of many young adult novels including: Too Big a Storm; One Night; Close to a Killer; and Revolutions of the Heart. Her books have appeared on numerous best-of-the-year lists. Her novel Thin Ice was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America and her books are frequently included on state, school and library reader's choice lists.
Karen Hyman
As Executive Director of the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, Karen Hyman develops services to 600 member libraries and administers QandANJ.org, a statewide, virtual reference service. Ms. Hyman is a nationally known speaker and writer on Customer Service, Interlibrary Networking and Reinventing Libraries. Her 12-step "Reinventing Your Library" programs have been a feature at every Public Library Association Conference since 2000. Ms. Hyman was the 1997 Librarian of the Year for the New Jersey Library Association and received their 2002 Library Service Award. She is the recipient of the 2003 Leadership Achievement Award from the ASCLA Division of the American Library Association.
Carolyn Brodie
Carolyn Brodie, a professor in the School of Library Science at Kent State University (KSU), has worked with Greg Byerly for over 15 years doing workshops, getting grants, writing articles, and traveling Ohio doing over 100 workshops for Ohio's youth services and K-12 librarians. She helped create the Reinberger Children's Library Center and was one of five teachers to receive the Kent State Distinguished Teacher Award in 2005.
Sondra Stanway
Sondra Stanway worked for many years taking care of books and paper materials at the Alaska State Library Historical Collections. She has come out of retirement to share her secrets with us on material repair and preservation.
Steve Shields
Steve Shields runs an IT consulting company, Shields Networking, based in the Puget Sound area. He has designed and delivered customized curriculum for the Alaska, Oregon, and Washington State Libraries.
Dale Musselman
Dale Musselman, Training and Support Specialist at WebJunction, has been working in support of public libraries for the past eight years. Before coming to WebJunction he worked for six years in the US Public Library Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dale has a background in education and holds an M.Ed. and BFA from Western Washington University.
Ric Iannolino
Ric Iannolino works as coordinator of the Tribal Family Youth Services diagnostic clinic within the Tlingit-Haida Central Council. This clinic is the largest in the state of Alaska. He is an active member of an international group of native health services, studying Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and determining the best approaches for treatment. The Tlingit-Haida FASD clinic serves any citizen of Southease Alaska age 2 years and above.
Unshelved Guys
In their Keynote Address, Bill Barnes & Gene Ambaum, creators of Unshelved, a comic strip about a library, will describe how they happened to start making comics about a library. They will entertain us with burning questions such as: how it is received in the library world? With the general public? Who are the characters in the strip and the stereotypes they drew on (and rejected) in developing them? The will talk about the real-life stories and the new business of web comics.
Judy Freeman
Judy Freeman is a well-known speaker, consultant and writer on all aspects of children's literature, storytelling, booktalking, and school librarianship. She is a visiting lecturer in the School of Information and Library Science at Pratt Institute in New York City, where she teaches courses in children's literature and storytelling. Judy Freeman is the author of Books Kids Will Sit Still for and writes the "Wild About books" column.
Stephanie Greene
Stephanie Greene is the author of the highly acclaimed "Owen Foote" series of beginning chapter books for kids as well as Betsy Ross and the Silver Thimble; Falling into Place; Not just Another Moose; Queen Sophie Hartley; and Show and Tell.
Lisa Wozniak
Lisa Wozniak works at WebJunction as a product associate on the learning team where she manages various learning programs. Previous to WebJunction, Lisa worked with New York City schools implementing a web-based classroom system to ensure student access to technology.
Mary Lou Caskey
Mary Lou Caskey is currently director of the Mid-York Library System in Utica, New York and responsible for all the activities of the system which includes 43 member libraries. She works closely with a Board of Trustees and with public offi cials on funding issues, developing partnerships, grant writing and planning, and is the spokesperson for all member libraries.
Kimberly Bolan
Kimberly Bolan is a library consultant based in Indianapolis, IN. She works with public and school libraries throughout the United States specializing in facilities planning and design, service and process analysis and management, technology management, teen services, community awareness, and marketing. Ms. Bolan is the author of Teen Spaces: The Step-by-Step Library Makeover, Technology Made Simple, and numerous journal articles.
Rob Cullin
Rob Cullin is the co-founder and vice president of E-vanced Solutions, Inc., an Indiana-based software company committed to developing web-based productivity solutions for public libraries. Rob is the author of Technology Made Simple and the author and community editor for WebJunction's Technology Planning section.
June Pinnell-Stephens
June Pinell-Stephens recently retired as Collection Services Manager at the Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library. She received the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 2003 and the Roll of Honor Award from the Freedom to Read Foundation in 2004. She is a past-president of the Alaska and Pacific Northwest Library Associations, and served four terms as president of the ACLU of Alaska.
Nancy White Carlstrom
Nancy White Carlstrom's story ideas come from the past as much as the present. Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna was the first book she wrote, but Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? was the first to be published. It began as a song she sang to her son, and it was accepted for publication on his second birthday!
Dr. Rosita Worl
Dr. Worl serves as the President of Sealaska Heritage Institute and is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Southeast. She has a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Anthropology from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Alaska Methodist University. Dr. Worl has received many honors and works with several different Native organizations. She is an accomplished lecturer, author, and professor.
Candace Morgan
Candace served Director of Community Library Services at Fort Vancouver Regional Library for 21 years and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Emporia State University School of Library and Information Science and Portland State University Hatfield School of Government. Candace is Vice-President of the Freedom to Read Foundation and a member of ALA's Committee on Professional Ethics. She is chair of the steering committees for Lawyer's for Libraries and Law for Librarians.
Greg Byerly
Greg has been instrumental over the past 20 years in developing Ohio's three library networks. He developed the OhioLINK project and served as the project consultant for the Ohio Public Library Information Network. He is also the consultant for the INFOhio project. Greg has worked with Carolyn Brodie for over 15 years, doing workshops for Ohio's youth services and K-12 libraries. Greg is currently an Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at Kent State
Brenda Bailey-Hainer
Brenda Bailey-Hainer joined BCR as its new executive director in July 2006. She is working on a Ph.D. in public affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center and earned her MLS at Kent State University in 1983.
Bailey-Hainer was honored with the Mountain Plains Library Association President's Board Choice Award in 2005, named among the 2002 "Movers and Shakers" by Library Journal and awarded Librarian of the Year for 2001 by the Colorado Library Association (CLA). She received the CLA Technology Project of the Year Award in 2004 for Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection.
