Claudia A. Gentner leads marketing and business development for an architectural firm that specializes in designing libraries, churches, and museums. Current projects in New Jersey include the new Franklin Township , Mount Olive , Glen Rock, Livingston , Wood-Ridge, Chester and Holmdel libraries.

A native of New Jersey , Gentner was graduated from Rutgers School of Communication, Information & Library Studies with an MLS in Information Science. A librarian by profession, she has worked in public libraries and in special libraries and heads the Rutgers SCILS Advisory Board. She is a member of the American Library Association, the Special Libraries Association, and the New Jersey Library Association, as well as the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Marketing Committee. She has been a Board member of both of the Bergen-Passaic Regional Library Cooperative - the predecessor of BCCLS and PALS - and the Printmaking Council of New Jersey.

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Dr. M. Elspeth Goodin

Dr. M. Elspeth Goodin has been a library media specialist in elementary and secondary schools, and is currently principal librarian and young adult coordinator at the Sussex County Library in Newton, N. J.

She is a past-president of the Educational Media Association of New Jersey, now the New Jersey Association of School Librarians, and has served as a member of the Editorial Board for School Library Media Research, the online jouirnal of the American Association of School Librarians. She is currently a member of the AASL Bylaws and Organization Committee.

LaDawna Harrington is a full-time, certified, media specialist practicing at Avenel Middle School, one of five middle schools in Woodbridge Township in New Jersey. She received her Master of Library Service fromRutgers, The State University, School of Communication, Information and Library Service, and her Bachelor of Arts, Education, from the University of Northern Colorado.

She is the past President of the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) and is actively involved in AASL, Infolink (Past President], and Beta Phi Mu. LaDawna was the first recipient of the Villy Gandhi Leadership Trainging Scholarship Award, 2000 given by the Educational Media Association of NJ and Association for Education Communication and Technology. She was chosen the Outstanding Media Specialist Award, State of New Jersey, for the year 2004.

La Dawna is often asked to be a speaker/trainer at various graduate programs, school districts, and conferences. Her March Madness Unit was picked up by the Health & Physical Education associations and graduate programs, which was indirect advocacy for Library Media Programs in NJ. She has also been invited to present her workshop, (Information Marketing Plan) IMP + Act = IMPACT, at the AECT Summer Institute. She recently presented to the New Jersey School Boards Association, “The Internet is NOT a Library”, and Computers in Libraries 2007.

Part Time Lecturer: School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, Rutgers, The State University.

NJ Links For Literacy: Consulted in the planning of Secretary of State Regina Thomas’s Literacy Initiative for school year 2004/2005.

Enzon, Incorporated Corporate Research Librarian. Worked with the National Science Foundation, Business Science Alliance, to find ways to infuse “real world” science collaboration into classrooms.

PUBLICATIONS: Guided Research in Middle School: Mystery in the Media Center.  Linworth Publishing, Inc. 2007.

“Working with Teachers: March Madness” The School Librarian’s Workshop. March, 2003.

The Ultimate Search Engine” NJEA Review. Fall 2006.

Celebrate Women! Celebrate Poetry” The School Librarian’s Workshop. Spring 2007.

RESEARCH: “Impact of School Library on Student Learning” CISSL (Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries), through an IMLS grant.

Dianne Oberg is Professor and Chair of the Department of Elementary Education at The University of Alberta in Edmonton Alberta Canada. Her teaching and research work focuses on teacher’s use of libraries, cooperative planning and teaching and the implementation and evaluation of school library programs. Before becoming a university educator, spent many years as a classroom teacher and a teacher-librarian.

Dianne has served as President of the Learning Resources Council of the Alberta Teacher’s Association and of the Canadian School Library Association. She is the editor of School Libraries Worldwide, the journal of the International Association of School Librarianship.

Ruth Toor was an elementary school library media specialist for 29 years and is now a library consultant, speaker, author of eleven professional books, and co- editor of the School Librarian's Workshop since its start 25 years ago.

Some highlights of her career include:

• President of the American Association of School Librarians
• Representative to the National Forum for History Standards, the National Social Studies, and English/Language Arts Standards
• Member of Implementation Committee for Information Power