Who Am I?

I received my MLS in 1991 and my PhD in 1998, both from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. I have served as the assistant director of the Indiana University Library School on the South Bend campus, and I have been a children's librarian in Rhode Island and in Indiana. Before choosing this field, I worked as a wildlife rehabilitator, raising injured and orphaned songbirds in Indiana; as an outdoor educator, introducing 6th graders to the wonders of the coastal redwood forest in California; and as a wildlife biology assistant in the back country of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. I have been a docent for a natural history museum, I have given planetarium shows, and I have been a storyteller for over twelve years.

I have more interests than I can count. Some of my favorites are reading children's books, writing children's songs, hiking, scuba diving, and telling folktales from around the world.