executive board bios

Loriene Roy (founder and Director) is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. She received a PhD from the University of Illinois (1987) and also holds degrees from the University of Arizona and Oregon Institute of Technology. She co-edited "Getting Libraries the Credit They Deserve: A Festschrift in Honor of Marvin H. Scilken" (Scarecrow, 2002) and "Library and Information Studies Education in the United States" (Mansell, 1998) and has over one hundred other publications. Her professional work focuses on library services for indigenous populations. She serves as Director of "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything," a reading promotion program for schools on or near reservations. She teaches graduate courses in public librarianship, reference sources and services in the humanities and social sciences, and library instruction and information literacy. Her research also includes creating tribal college virtual libraries, virtual museums of indigenous material culture, and co-developing an intelligent agent for book recommending. She is Anishinabe (Ojibwe), is enrolled on the White Earth Reservation, and is a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (Pembina Band). She was born in Cloquet, Minnesota and raised in Carlton, Minnesota near the Fond du Lac Reservation.

Susie Husted (board member since 1999) received her MLS from the City University of New York at Queens College, focusing her work on services to American Indians and young adults. Susie's experience includes work in the research library and archives of the National Museum of the American Indian and the Brooklyn Children's Museum in New York, as well as with the American Indian Library Association. She is currently working with professors in the humanities departments at the University of New Hampshire to establish a Native American studies minor and an annual lecture series on American Indian issues. Susie is also active in the New Hampshire Library Association, is a website reviewer for School Library Journal and works full-time for the Seabrook Library in Seabrook, NH.
see Susie's list of recommended books

Sara Joiner- Update on Sara
After graduating from library school in May 2000, Sara took a job with the Dallas Public Library as a children's librarian. She presented storytimes for preschoolers and toddlers, developed programming ideas, and gave tours to area school groups. In February 2002, she accepted the position of children's coordinator with the Brazoria County Library System near Houston. She works in collection development as well as developing programming ideas and indirectly supervising the children's activities at the system's eleven libraries.

Marti Lindsey- (board member since 1999) received her MLS from the School of Information Resources and Library Science of the University of Arizona, concentrating her academic work on Information Science, Library Administration, and service to Native Americans. Her MA in education is from Prescott College. Her thesis, A constructivist study of developing Curriculum to teach Internet Information Literacy to Navajo High School Students, was an outgrowth of her four years on the Navajo Reservation. Marti has spoken and participated in poster sessions on behalf of "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything" at ALA, PLA, and AzLA.

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