Sheila B. Anderson's Personal Website

Amy Alessio and I served three years togther on the YALSA Board of Directors. She is the Teen Coordinator at the Schaumburg Township District Library in Illinois. For YALSA,she has also served on the Membership/Division Promotion Committee, the Teen Read Week Work Group, the Local Arrangements Committee, and the President's Program Commitee. She is the co-author of Teen Read Week: A Manual for Participation, published by the American Library Association in 2002. She is a YALSA Serving the Underserved (SUS) Trainer.

Patrick Jones and I met for the first time at ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia. Patrick runs connectingya.com, a consulting firm dedicated to assisting libraries in providing robust services to youth. He has written over fifty articles and several books, including A Core Collection For Young Adults published in 2003. He is also the author of Things Change, a fiction book for teens. For YALSA, he has served on the Board of Directors, Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers Committee, Teen Hoopla Committee, Publications Committee, and the Professional Development Committee. He is a recipient of the Frances Henne/YALSA/VOYA Research Grant and he is a YALSA Serving the Underserved (SUS) Trainer.

Robyn Lupa and I both served on YALSA's Selected DVDs and Videos Committee and we had a blast in New Orleans! Robyn is the Head of Children's Services at the Arvada Library of the Jefferson County Public Library in Colorado. She also worked for the Queens Borough Public Library. She served on YALSA's Teen Web Site Advisory Committee. She also served on SRRT's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered Book Award Committee.

Kristine Mahood is one of the first young adult librarians I met when I worked in NC. We Co-Chaired the Young Adult Committee of the NC Library Association and put our energies into a publication created by that committee called Grassroots: for high risque librarians. Currently she is the Young Adult Librarian for Timberland Regional Library. She presented "Booktalking Psych-Up Tricks and Program Models" at the PLA National Conference in 2000. In 2001, as part of YALSA's "Power Up With Print" preconference at the AASL Annual Conference, she presented "Be a Performing Body, Not a Talking Head: Blueprints or Booktalk Programs." She is the co-author of "The Inner Game of Booktalking," published in the June 2001 issue of Voice of Youth Advocates.