Reviewing for Booklist

If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for Booklist, please contact the editor of the appropriate section directly with relevant samples of your work.

Brad Hooper, Adult Books Editor

Laura Tillotson, Editorial Director, Books for Youth

Sue Ellen Beauregard, Media Editor

Mary Ellen Quinn, Editor, Reference Books Bulletin

Contributors

Columnists

Michael Cart. Author of “Carte Blanche” and a Booklist reviewer, Michael teaches young adult literature at UCLA. The former president of YALSA, he's also the founding editor of the YA literary journal Rush Hour and the author or editor of nearly a dozen books.

Kaite Mediatore Stover, who writes the “She Reads...” column, refuses to give up her day job as Readers' Services Librarian at the Main Library of Kansas City, Kansas Public. When she's not reading tarot cards or gardening, she's a roadie and merch girl for her husband's numerous bands.

Joyce Saricks, now retired from the Readers' Advisory department at the Downers Grove (IL) Public Library, writes “At Leisure with Joyce Saricks”. She’s also addicted to audio books; when she's not reading a book, she's listening to one, as she rediscovers her hobbies -- cooking, walking, and traveling.

David Wright (“He Reads...”) is Readers' Services Librarian, Seattle (WA) Public Library.

Will Manley, author of “The Manley Arts,” wrote The Truth about Reference Librarians (McFarland, 1996).Reviewers

Adult

After years of dividing her education and personal and professional lives between natural history and library work, Nancy Bent has finally settled in as a Reference Librarian in LaGrange, Illinois. In her spare time she goes birding, rehabilitates orphaned and injured wild animals, and reads anything she can get her hands on.

Marta Segal Block is a freelance writer and editor. She has been reviewing children's and adult literature for over eight years.

Romance maven John Charles, a Reference Librarian and Fiction Selector for the Scottsdale Public Library System, has been happily reviewing romances for Booklist since 1999. A contributor to the Romance section of Gale's What Do I Read Next, co-author of Voice of Youth Advocate's annual “Clueless: Adult Mysteries with Young Adult Appeal” column, a reviewer for Library Journal, and co-author of The Mystery Readers' Advisory: The Librarian's Clues to Murder and Mayhem (ALA, 2001), Charles was named 2002 Librarian of the Year by the Romance Writers of America and names good chocolate and good books as two of the world's great pleasures.

Donna Chavez is a Chandler, AZ-based freelance writer, writing coach and a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly. Over two decades of professional publishing credits include the Chicago Tribune, The Rotarian Magazine, the Chicago Sun Times, St. Anthony Publishing (Ingenix) and many more.

Nina C. Davis, a historical and paranormal romance reviewer, is the MLS Floater for the Lane Libraries based in Hamilton, Ohio, filling in for reference, circulation and cataloging staff and serving as one of the romance and anime selectors for the system. In her spare time, she's an aspiring romance novelist and football and anime junkie.

Betty Dickie has a BA and MA in English and has written advertising and public relations copy, and edited newsletters and magazines. A brief stint of teaching brought her to library work and the Serials department of Boatwright Library at the University of Richmond. She likes reading just about anything, but especially likes books that make her think and take her places she’s never been with good strong characters to guide the way.

Deborah Donovan has been reviewing for Booklist since her retirement from the Fiction Department of the Cincinnati Public Library nearly five years ago. She especially enjoys debut novels, as well as Native American and art-related historical fiction and nonfiction.

Patty Engelmann has always been drawn to the place of true inspiration, the library. She has worked in libraries since college and now works in an Illinois high-school library helping teenagers trek the vast Internet. Booklist allows Engelmann to indulge her passion for reading, especially romances, and she is happy to help educate the world about this often maligned genre.

Gordon Flagg is managing editor of American Libraries, the American Library Association's membership journal. For Booklist, he reviews graphic novels, books on film and other aspects of popular culture, and the occasional novel.

Jay Freeman has a Masters of Arts in both Classical History and U. S. History and is an authoritative reviewer of history books. He teaches history in a Chicago Public High School.

Michael B. Gannon is Head of A dminstrative and Borrower Services with the Anne Arundel County Public Library (Annapolis. MD). He is the author of Blood, Bedlam, Bullets & Badguys: A Reader's Guide to Adventure/Suspense Fiction, and the 2003 winner of the Public Library Association's Allie Beth Martin Award. He enjoys reviewing all types of adventure and suspense fiction—the more action the better.

Carol Haggas reviews fiction, gardening, biographies, and creative nonfiction. A freelance writer specializing in public relations and marketing communications, Carol Haggas serves as a Readers' Services Advisor for the St. Charles (IL) Public Library. All of which leaves little time for her favorite hobby, gardening, since Carol happily spends more time reading than weeding.

Maria Hatton is the director of administration for a Chicago-based restoration company, which can be a highly stressful occupation. To relax, she reads romances, a habit that has made her an expert reviewer for Booklist, and which inspires her to write: “I am lost without a book in my hands, especially a romance novel which takes me away to another time, another place, and someone else's stress!”

Carl Hays, Booklist reviewer, is a University of Illinois graduate in English and Creative Writing. He has been a computer technician, a technical writer, and has reviewed SF and non-fiction science books for Booklist since 1992.

Jack Helbig is a journalist and playwright living in Chicago. He regularly reviews theater for the Chicago Reader and the Daily Herald. He is currently working on a new musical with Mark Hollmann based on Menander’s The Grouch. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois, with his wife, Sherry, and his spunky daughter, Margaret.

Alan Hirsch, reviewer for books in classical music, has sung in choruses since age 9 including the Chicago Symphony Chorus for 26 seasons. In his mountaintop home in Southern Colorado, he listens to opera, symphonic, chamber, solo, and choral music and seasons those with sprinklings of folk, jazz, and popular music.

Krista Hutley is the teen/reference librarian at Englewood Public Library in Colorado. Specializing in sf, fantasy, and young adult books, she has also written reviews for the Bulletin for the Center of Children’s Books and Library Journal Xpress. In her spare time, she feeds her anime and manga habit, watches too much television, plays video games, and writes fiction.

Barbara Jacobs is a senior management consultant and a professional journalist who regularly reviews publications on home design, arts and crafts, and business.

Mark Knoblauch, a freelance writer and former librarian, worked 15 years as a restaurant reviewer for the Chicago Tribune. He reviews books on food and cooking, history, and travel.

Michele Leber retired in late 2002 from 24 years at Fairfax County Public Library, VA, where her last and longest-held job was as Assistant Coordinator for Collection Management. She enjoys reviewing books of a variety of types and genres, particularly literary and feminist/women's fiction and mystery, as well as biography and non-fiction.

Debi Lewis is the Web Development Manager for ALA, but relishes the opportunity to keep her intellect alive writing reviews for Booklist. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has published several short stories.

Lillian Lewis has been writing book reviews since 1994. She recently moved from Chicago to Atlanta to work with Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Her greatest joy is spending time with her nieces and nephew. “They make life FUN!” she enthuses.

Ellen Loughran works as a part-time reference librarian at N.Y. CityTech and Hunter College of the City University of New York, as well as being a visiting professor in the Pratt School of Library and Information Science. She reviews with great interest and pleasure: literary fiction, bildungsroman and historical fiction -- the weirder the book, the greater the pleasure.

Paula Luedtke, unofficial Queen of Whatever Suits Her Fancy, has reviewed for five years. She shares her magical castle with three enchanted cats (“Unsuccessful suitors. They just would not go away.”) and a talented kitchen dragon who makes a smashingly good Crème Brûlée.

Author of Gardenwalks in California and West Coast Gardenwalks, Alice Joyce worked as a sculptor in Chicago before Northern California lured her to create a year-round garden from scratch. Alice writes the “GardenWalks” column for the San Francisco Chronicle, lectures widely on garden travel and design, and has been a Booklist reviewer for more than a decade; her articles and photographs appear internationally in magazines.

Patricia Monaghan, a member of the interdisciplinary faculty at DePaul University in Chicago, is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction books, mostly on mythology, as well as three volumes of poetry. She is a part-time cheesehead, tending a small organic orchard near Black Earth, Wisconsin, with plans for a vineyard in the offing there.

Retired Arizona branch library manager and Romance Writers of America 2001 Librarian of the Year Shelley Mosley has written four romantic comedies with Deborah Mazoyerunder the pen name Deborah Shelley, and is working on a biocritical dictionary of American romance authors and a reference book on the suffragists with fellow Booklist reviewer John Charles, with whom she has won two Veritas Awards. Mosley has written more than 600 limericks; articles for Library Journal, VOYA, and Wilson Library Bulletin, and is addicted to home improvement shows.

James O’Laughlin is a fiction editor at StoryQuarterly, and a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at Northwestern University, where he teaches Creative Nonfiction, Fiction Writing and Literary Editing, among other courses. He writes essays and short stories.

A life-long Cleveland Indian fan, Linda Perkins lives with two dachshunds—Dickens and Pippi—and works at the Berkeley Public Library. She enjoys the hurly-burly of Berkeley, but also relishes time at the Sea Ranch where she reads review books (bound galleys only) in a hot-tub set among the redwoods.

June Sawyers, a freelance reviewer who specializes in pop culture and religion, originally hails from Glasgow, Scotland, and has written or edited seventeen books, mostly in music and literature.

Regina Schroeder started reviewing for Booklist in 2001, worked at (the original) Powell's until 2003, when she decided she'd had enough of northern winters and migrated south. Now she's working on an MFA in Book Arts at the University of Alabama.

Whitney Scott wears many hats in Chicago's publishing scene. She teaches at Columbia College and is an author as well as editor and publisher (Outrider Press) of the acclaimed “Black-and-White” anthology series produced in affiliation with TallGrass Writers Guild; its tenth anniversary title is Falling in Love Again: Love the Second Time Around (September 2005).

An independent entrepreneur for the past 17 years, David Siegfried’s forays into the business world have included desktop publishing, computer assembly and repair, equities and options trading, vending, and most recently, video production. A former singer and bandleader, he still performs occasionally with his acclaimed brother James Chance. David is married to Booklist Associate Editor Donna Seaman.

With the history of the West flowing through her veins, Diana Tixier Herald lives contentedly with husband Rick on the edge of a secluded canyon in a house created from recycled cans, tires, and bottles now that all 70 teenagers (bio and foster) are grown and gone. She has put her passion for fiction to use writing and editing several readers’ advisory guides, including Genreflecting, Teen Genreflecting, Fluent in Fantasy, and Strictly Science Fiction, and, of course, reviewing romance novels for Booklist.

Mike Tribby, freelance reviewer for Adult Books and Media, has reviewed for Bookist since 1992. He is employed as a cataloger and specializes in materials concerning the dark side and margins of popular culture and music.

Annie Tully attended the University of Illinois and the University of Washington. She has written for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Web site Bookslut.com in addition to reviewing fiction and memoirs for Booklist, and she produces public programming in the arts in Chicago.

Lynne Welch is a reference and readers-advisory librarian by intent and a systems librarian by default at the Herrick Memorial Library in Wellington, Ohio. She enjoys helping people find answers, and reads romance novels primarily for pleasure, and professionally as a reviewer for Booklist.

Youth

Heather Booth is a Readers' Advisory Librarian at the Downers Grove Public Library in suburban Illinois, where she focuses on Young Adult services. She also reviews audiobooks for Media (see below).

Kathy Broderick is a Chicago writer and the former assistant editor of Book Links magazine. Her Chicago Public Library card is usually maxed out.

A Teen Librarian in Berkeley, California, Debbie Carton leads a teen theater group and takes teens with her for music and poetry outreach to seniors. Her spare time is devoted to chamber music performance and the occasional jigsaw puzzle.

Tina Coleman works is Marketing Coordinator for ALA Editions/Graphics. She's a huge fan of graphic novels, and in her spare time, writes her own. She also turns unwanted books into purses and other crafty projects.

Former Coordinator of Children's Services at New York Public Library, Julie Cummins has chaired the Newbery, Caldecott, and Notable Children's Books committees. She is distantly related to Daniel Boone, enjoys gourmet cooking and is an expert on hoop snakes.

GraceAnne A. DeCandido was a librarian, then an editor, last of the late, lamented Wilson Library Bulletin. She now reads, writes, and teaches children’s and YA literature for RutgersOnline out of her NYC home office aerie. In odd moments she makes tea, watches the Yankees, puts medieval music on her iPod, and sends too much email.

Randall Enos has been Youth Services Consultant at the Ramapo Catskill Library System in New York since 1982. He has served on the Newbery, Caldecott, Notable Children's Book, and many other ALSC and ALA committees. The guilty pleasures to which he admits are date and almond rolls and M&M's—not necessarily in that order. He is totally devoted to his two dogs, Liberty and Mason.

Former editor of Booklist’s Books for Youth, Sally Estes is enjoying leisurely mornings with two cats in New Mexico, where the view from her screened-in patio is a spectacular panorama of a 50-acre farm field and the distant East Mountains. She lives near—but not too near—one of her daughters and husband, two grandchildren and spouses, and two great-grandchildren, with a third on the way. She gardens and reads. Life is good.

Connie Fletcher reviews both adult mysteries and children's books for Booklist. Often, books like Bunny's First Snowflake and Blood in the Snow mingle on her coffeetable. Fletcher teaches journalism at Loyola University Chicago. Besides blood and bunnies, Fletcher loves ballet, theater, and Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Francisca Goldsmith is the Collection Management Librarian at Berkeley (CA) Public Library and will read anything with font over 6 points or with accompanying illustration. She eats lunch every Friday with the English Language Learners at Berkeley High School, travels the length of California by train about once a month, and gives away galleys (post review) to children travelling alone on planes.

Jennifer Hubert is the Middle School/Coordinating Librarian at Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School located in the heart of NYC's Greenwich Village. She is a closet quilter obsessed with the color pink, all things Target, and reality television.

Krista Hutley is the teen/reference librarian at Englewood Public Library in Colorado. Specializing in sf, fantasy, and young adult books, she has also written reviews for the Bulletin for the Center of Children’s Books and Library Journal Xpress. In her spare time, she feeds her anime and manga habit, watches too much television, plays video games, and writes fiction.

Kat Kan fairly wallows in graphic novels as most of her freelance work involves reading and reviewing them and serving as a consultant to various distributors and publishers. In her spare time she's a pastor's wife and helps her husband cultivate their land in the Florida Panhandle.

Jesse Karp is the Early Childhood Library Teacher and runs the graphic novel program at Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School. He lives in New York City with his lovely wife, two perfect daughters, and a comic-book collection that stretches as far as the eye can see.

Nancy Kim runs a consulting business for non-profit and religious organizations and is a mother of two. She loves to try new crockpot recipes and to sing show tunes; sometimes she wonders what it would be like to run away from home and hide out in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art with Claudia and her brother Jamie.

Julie Kline, outreach coordinator in Milwaukee, WI, runs teacher workshops about Latin America and the Caribbean, organizes cultural events, and coordinates the Américas Award for Children's Literature. When not taking care of her small son, sizeable black dog, and two moderately-sized cats . . . well, she doesn't do much else.

Holly Koelling is the Teen Services and Reference Librarian at the Bothell Regional Library in the Seattle-area King County Library System, and lives in a funky 1956 rambler with her long-time love, Christopher, and three wicked cats. Among other writing projects, she is the author of the recently published Classic Connections: Turning Teens on to Great Literature (Libraries Unlimited).

Roger Leslie is the author of many books for adults and YA, including the award-winning best seller, Success Express for Teens. His multifaceted writing career includes being an editor, public speaker, writing teacher and, oh yeah, from 7:00 to 3:00 on weekdays he runs a high school library in Houston, TX.

Todd Morning is the Director of the Bartlett Public Library in Bartlett, Illinois. Before taking that position he was Head of Youth Services at the Schaumburg Township District Library (also in Illinois) for 23 years. He is an active member of ALA and an inactive member (meaning he frequently neglects to wear his spats) of the P. G. Wodehouse Society.

A former editor at the Village Voice, Abby Nolan writes about children's books and pop culture. She has written one book, Rock and Roll Road Trip, which is now, sadly, out of print.

Kathleen Odean is the author of four guides to children's books including Great Books for Babies and Toddlers (Ballantine, 2003). She chaired the 2002 Newbery Award Committee, and served on the 1990 Newbery Award Committee and the 1996 Caldecott Award Committee. She currently gives all-day seminars on new books for young adults.

Shelle Rosenfeld, a writer, editor and longtime Booklist contributor, holds a master’s in English from the University of Kansas, a master’s in Library and Information Science from Drexel University, and has worked in public library youth and adult services. She enjoys moonpies, festive vintage hats, and continues to embrace her inner Ramona Quimby.

John Peters grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he was a thorn in the sides of library clerical supervisors from eighth grade through college. He received his library degree from Columbia University, and currently presides over The New York Public Library’s Central Children’s Room.

Isabel Schon, founding director and professor, Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents at California State University San Marcos, is the author of numerous professional books on the literature for Latino young readers. She is passionate about tennis and reading—in that order.

Karin Snelson has written, edited, and hawked children's books since 1987. She is a freelance writer in Seattle, WA, serving on the 2005–2006 ALA Notable Children's Books committee. Her hobby is too obvious to mention here.

Ed Sullivan is a library media specialist, author of many articles and books, and involved in far too many professional activities. When not reading, writing, or educating, he spend lots of money at the iTunes music store, drinks wine, and indulges in his addiction to favorite TV shows like Lost, 24, and The Shield.

Kay Weisman is a K-5 Librarian at Willowbrook School in Glenview, IL. When she isn't digging for dinosaurs or investigating Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Houses, she can be found screening videos for the Carnegie Medal or working on her school's online publication, SummerTImes.

Media

Patricia Austin, a professor of children's literature at the University of New Orleans and author of the picture book The Cat Who Loved Mozart, loves nothing more than making a lap for her four felines and curling up with a good book.

Barbara Baskin is Professor Emerita at Stony Brook University; present VP of a regional Arts Council; amateur actor; book “doctor” and manuscript reviewer for major publishers; former President of the Board of the Parent-Child Home Program, an international literacy organization; and co-author/ co-editor of six books (including one on children's punning) and many articles related to libraries, exceptional children and book analyses. Above all, she is an avid reader.

Heather Booth is a Readers' Advisory Librarian at the Downers Grove Public Library in suburban Illinois, where she focuses on Young Adult services. She listens to most of her review audiobooks while she makes dinner—when the books are really good, dinner is late.

Edith Ching is the Lower School Librarian (for students in grades four through eight) at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., located on the grounds of the National Cathedral. When she's not reading, she likes to travel, garden, cheer for the Redskins and the Red Sox and search for treasures at junk shops.

Karen Cruze just recently began reviewing audios for Booklist. Before her metamorphosis into a Young Adult librarian at Northbrook (IL) Public Library, she was a journalist. She's married to (hold your gasps), Tom Cruze, a photographer not an actor, and is still mad she can't have him paged at airports, which she tried to do, but was told she couldn't, 17 years ago when their daughter Anna was about to be born.

Lolly Gepson has been a Youth Services Librarian at the Northbrook Public Library for 20 years. She loves backpacking, swimming, travel, children's books, and reading to her grandchildren; and has been seen recently dressed as her alter-ego, “Super Girl,” complete with full-length red cape, high red boots and attitude, to publicize the library's Summer Reading Program.

Karen Harris was a professsor of library science in the Department of Education at the University of New Orleans. Retiredin 1995, she worked as a volunteer for the Southern Institute at Tulane University for five years and is now a volunteer at both the New Orleans Museum of Art and Second Harvesters.

Laurie Hartshorn is head of reference at Pekin Public Library where she celebrated her twenty-fifth year on staff in October. She and her husband enjoy searching for antiques, beachcombing in Florida, and visiting their daughter in Michigan.

Jean Hatfield has worked in youth services for many years and she is still a kid at heart, especially when hearing stories or music. Even though she spends a lot of time exercising her ears by listening to recordings, they still seem to be of normal size.

Carol S. Holzberg, PhD, is an educational technology specialist, computer journalist, private technology consultant and anthropologist, who coordinates the technology program at three schools in Western Massachusetts and teaches in both the Licensure program at Hampshire Educational Collaborative (Northampton, MA) and online in the School of Education at Capella University. When she¹s not solving tech problems (or causing them), she goes for long country walks, reads poetry, bakes fabulous chocolate brownies (recipe available upon request), and copes stoically with the dust fluffs that have taken over her empty nest.

Kristi Elle Jemtegaard is a youth services librarian in Arlington, Virginia (it's more than just a cemetery, she is quick to note) who divides her time between her laptop and her lap cats. When she's not reviewing audio materials for kids, writing articles, conducting storyhours, or teaching teachers, she's out in the garden giving pep talks to her plants.

Audio reviewer Joan Kindig moved from working in the rock-and-roll world to being Professor of Reading and Children’s Literature at the University of Virginia. Spurred on by the creativity of both worlds, Joan can be found listening to audiobooks on every drive she takes—that is, when she’s not singing along to a Jackson Browne CD.

Jeanette Larson is the Youth Services Manager for Austin Public Library in Austin, TX. As a counter-balance to the sweetness of the children she sees on a daily basis, she enjoys listening to mysteries.

Mary McCay is the Landrieu Distinguished teaching Professor at Loyola University New Orleans and the Chair of the English Department. She loves to listen to audiobooks, drink champagne, and travel.

Nancy McCray. Five grandchildren keep this former assistant editor at BKL Media commuting to Colorado. Currently she works in the Children's Room at Evanston (IL) Public Library.

Debbie McLeod is Youth Collections Specialist for the Johnson County (KS) library, which means she selects all youth materials for a 13-branch system. Outside of the library, she gets to manage the caretaking of one husband, two college-aged daughters, three dogs (well, two belong to the girls), one cat (“Not mine!” she points out) and 13 horses and ponies.

Sheri Melnick is a non-practicing attorney and stay-at-home mom of four children. When not reviewing books or audios, she is Taxi Mom, taking her children to various figure skating practices and competitions.

Sally Miculek is a youth librarian with the Austin Public Library in Austin, Texas. She enjoys reading, cooking, jogging, playing with her cats, and watching bad television in her spare time.

Anna Rich, currently a stay-at-home mom, is a children’s librarian. Her interests range from reading to sewing, although she has been seen wielding hammers and various tools as she tackles home improvement projects.

Jim Scholtz is the Library Director of the Yankton (SD) Community Library and has been reviewing nonfiction videos and DVDs for Booklist since 1985. Additionally, Jim writes books about videos and libraries/library technology and his hobby interests include singing loud and high as a barbershop tenor, pottery and tennis (although his knees and other body parts are giving out).

Paul Shackman, MLS, has worked in juvenile and academic publishing, besides reviewing children's books and recordings. He now spends his days micromanaging two young children (his own).

Traci Todd is an editor for Chronicle Books and the author of a handful of books for children. A recent San Francisco transplant, Traci is having a fantastic time exploring her new hometown, and a not-so-fantastic time keeping her move-traumatized, pristinely white-bellied cat from hiding in the fireplace flue.

Joanne Troutner is currently the Director of Media/Technology for Tippecanoe School Corporation and a technology advocate since the first Apple II computers. She is an avid Star Trek fan and lives with her husband and two four-legged children, Black Labs Suzy and Samatha.

Lucinda Whitehurst is the Lower School librarian at St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, Virginia, and the former chair of ALSC’s Notable Children’s Videos committee. Previously she worked as a children’s and YA librarian in public libraries but decided she likes having the summer to hang out with her family, kayak, travel, and pay attention to the many stacks of books waiting around her house.In their spare time, she and her mother publish their own children ’s literature newsletter.

AV reviewer Brian Wilson works as a full-time Children's Librarian at the Evanston Public Library where, during storytime, he astounds the crowds with his jaw-dropping ability to imitate seals, kitties, disgruntled cows, and ducklings. In his spare time, he listens to loud rock music, writes plays about very silly things, studies the films of Fellini and Will Ferrell, and repeatedly reminds people that no he's not that Brian Wilson.

Reference

Reference Books Bulletin Editorial Board, 2008–2009:

Sue Polanka, Head of Reference and Instruction, Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, Chair.

Donald Altschiller, History Bibliographer, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Susan Awe, Director of Outreach and Research: Management and Social Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Charles Becker, Jr., Library Director, East Campus Library, Pima Community College East Campus, Tucson, Arizona.

Barbara Bibel, Reference Librarian, Oakland Public Library, Oakland, California.

Jerry Carbone, Director, Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro, Vermont.

Kathleen M. McBroom, Resource Teacher for Library Media and Automation, Dearborn Public Schools, Dearborn, Michigan.

Jessica Moyer, Doctoral Student and Teaching Assistant, Literacy Education College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Adjunct Faculty, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Carolyn M. Mulac, Division Chief, General Information Services, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois.

Jack O’Gorman, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Roesch Library, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.

Stephen E. Stratton, Head, Collections and Technical Services, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, California.

Contributing Reviewers

Ken Black, Director of Teaching and Learning Technology, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois.

Christine Bulson, Librarian Emeritus, Milne Library, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, New York.

Craig Bunch, Librarian, Hamilton Middle School Library, Houston, Texas.

Nancy Cannon, Reference Librarian, Milne Library, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, New York.

Ann E. Cohen, Assistant Division Head, Arts, Music, and Recreation Division, Rochester Public Library, Rochester, New York.

Sharon E. Cohen, Librarian, Greenacres Branch, Palm Beach County Library System, Greenacres, Florida.

Catherine Collins, Reference Librarian, Bucks County Community College, Bristol, Pennsylvania.

Harold V. Cordry, Writer and Researcher, Tecumseh, Kansas.

Cynthia Crosser, Social Science and Humanities Reference Librarian, University of Maine, Orono, Maine.

Jennifer Dawson, Citrus Research and Education Center, Lake Alfred, Florida.

Christy Donaldson, Utah Valley University Library, Orem, Utah.

Stephen Fadel, Business Reference Librarian, Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono, Maine.

Lesley S. J. Farmer, Professor, CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, California.

Jack Forman, Public Services Librarian, San Diego Mesa College Library/LRC, San Diego, California.

Rochelle Glantz, Reviews Editor, Linworth Publishing, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Susan Gooden, Librarian, Concord High School, Wilmington, Delaware.

Asia Gross, Electronic Resources Librarian, Missouri Literacy Network Corporation, St Louis, Missouri.

Carol Sue Harless, Stone Mountain High School, Dekalb County School System, Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Dona Helmer, College Gate Elementary School, Anchorage, Alaska.

Lilian Takahashi Hoffecker, Reference and Education Librarian, The Health Sciences Library, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado.

Patricia M. Hogan, Administrative Librarian, Poplar Creek Public Library District, Streamwood, Illinois.

Neil Hollands, Adult Services Librarian, Williamsburg Regional Library, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Danise Hoover, Associate Librarian for Public Services, Hunter College Library, New York, New York.

Sally Sartain Jane, former Head of Adult Collection Development, Lee County Library System, Fort Myers, Florida.

Lisa N. Johnston, Associate Director/Head of Public Services, Sweet Briar College Libraries, Sweet Briar, Virginia.

Jeff Kosokoff, Director, Ginn Library and Information Technology, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.

Abbie Vestal Landry, Head, Reference Division, Watson Library, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Jan Lewis, Associate Director, Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

Art A. Lichtenstein, Director, Torreyson Library, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.

Elaine Lindstrom, Brookville Branch Manager, Brookville Library, Brookville, Ohio.

Sara Rofofsky Marcus, Electronic Resource/Web Librarian, Kurt R. Schmeller Library, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, New York.

Kristen L. Mastel, Outreach & Instruction Librarian, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Michael E. Matthews, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Northwestern Memorial Library, Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Christopher McConnell, Librarian, Facet Biotech Corporation, Redwood City, California.

Arthur S. Meyers, Library Director, Russell Library, Middletown, Connecticut.

Brian Odom, Reference Librarian, Pelham Public Library, Pelham, Alabama.

Kathryn O'Gorman, Director, Johnnie Mae Berry Library, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Wade Osburn, Freed-Hardeman University, Loden-Daniel Library, Henderson, Tennessee.

Maren C. Ostergard, Early Literacy/Outreach Librarian, King County Library System, Issaquah, Washington.

Margaret Power, Reference Services Coordinator, DePaul University Library, Chicago, Illinois.

James Rettig, University Librarian, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia.

Deborah Rollins, Head, Collection Services Development, Fogler Library, University of Maine, Orono, Maine.

Robyn Rosenberg, Engineering Librarian, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

Linda Loos Scarth, Reference Librarian, Busse Center Library, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Diana Donner Shonrock, Science Librarian and Technology Librarian/Human Sciences Bibliographer, Parks Library, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

Esther Sinofsky, Director, Instructional Media Services, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles, California.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Reference Book Author, Hickory, North Carolina.

Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services Librarian, Alachua County Library District, Gainesville, Florida.

Kaye M. Talley, Coordinator of Technical Services, Torreyson Library, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.

Terri Tomchyshyn, Head, Library Information Services, Communication Security Establishment Library, Ottawa, Ontario Canada.

Michael Tosko, Information Literacy Coordinator, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

Cheryl Karp Ward, East Hartford High School, Library Media Chair, East Hartford, Connecticut.

Sarah Barbara Watstein, Associate University Librarian for Research and Instructional Services, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

Ann Welton, Helen B. Stafford Elementary, Tacoma, Washington.

Christine A. Whittington, Director of the Library, Greensboro College, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Steven York, Cataloging Librarian, Paul and Rosemary Trible Library, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia.

Shauna Yusko, Librarian, Evergreen Junior High, Redmond, Washington.