Judi Moreillon
Advocate

Literature and libraries are my passions. In my writing and service work, I advocate:

For full-time, professional teacher-librarians and high-quality library resources in every school;

For professionalism in the field of teacher-librarianship that centers on classroom-library collaboration for instruction;

For the integration of authentic children's and adolescent literature and technology tools into the classroom-library curriculum;

For school and public library collaboration and for family literacy.

Young moms and babies from Pima County Public Library's Project L.I.F.T. (Literacy Involves Families Together) posed with me and their signed copies of my book, Read to Me/Vamos a leer, which is a poem I originally written for this project. I donate a portion of my proceeds from this book to Project L.I.F.T.

I serve on the Advisory Board for School Library Monthly, a magazine for teacher-librarians.

I am on the Board of Advisors of the Worlds of Words: International Collection of Children's and Adolescent Literature (WOW) and the editorial review board for WOW Stories. The collection is housed at the University of Arizona.

In my work with the American Library Association, I serve on two national committees: Association of Library Services to Children Pura Belpré Book Award Committee and American Association of School Librarians School Library Media Program of the Year Award.

For more information about my advocacy work, you can access my curriculum vitae.

Updated: 11 December 009