Brief Biography

Director, Library, Media, and Technology, Londonderry, NH, a SLYMPY recipient; Graduate, UNH and Simmons/GSLIS; past-president NHSLMA and NESLA; Served as AASL Secretary and on the Board of Directors; Chair, Standards and Guidelines Implementation (L4L); Affiliate Assembly delegate; participant on numerous other AASL committees; presently teaching online at Rutgers/SCLIS and supervising practicum students at Simmons; member of the editorial advisory board for Knowledge Quest, Teacher Librarian and H.W. Wilson Library Advisory Panel.

First recipient of the NH Excellence in Education Award, Library Media Services; cited in ALA’s Whole School Library Handbook as one of “103 Outstanding School Librarians”; inducted into the NESLA Hall of Fame; recipient of the 2010 Thinkfinity/Allison Zmuda Challenge Grant

Numerous articles in a variety of professional and scholarly journals including: “Creation of a Research Community in a K-12 School System Using Action Research and Evidence Based Practice,” (with Gail March and Jean Sand) in Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice 4.2 (2009): 8-36, selected by ALA’s Library Instruction Round Table as one of the Top Twenty Library Instruction Articles of 2009.