Advisory Board
The Advisory Board of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book assists the director in carrying out the mission of the Center. The initial board was appointed for the term 2000-2003. The current board members are listed below.
Barbara Barner, Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts
http://www.pctela.org/
Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Chair, Writer, Moscow,
PA. http://www.scbartoletti.com
Mary Claghorn, PCBL (Pennsylvania Citizens for Better Libraries), Montgomery County, PA
http://www.pcblpa.org/
Nancy Eaton (ex-officio), Dean, Penn State University Libraries, University Park, PA
David A. Haury, State Archivist, Director, Bureau of Archives and History, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&mode=2&objID=1426
Terrance Hayes, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.cmu.edu/index.shtml
Steven Herb, Ph.D. (ex-officio), Director, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, University Park, PA
Derrick Holdsworth, Professor, Penn State University, University Park, PA
http://www.psu.edu/
Joseph Kelly, Ph.D. Executive Director,
PA Humanities Council, Constitution Place, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.pahumanities.org
Nancy Smith Latanision, President, Pennsylvania School Librarian's Association
http://www.psla.org/
Nancy Leuschner, Retired English & Humanities
Teacher, Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, PA
http://www.hacc.edu
Brian Lockman, President and CEO, Pennsylvania Cable Network, Camp Hill, PA
http://www.pcntv.com/
Suzanne Fisher Staples, Vice-Chair, Juvenile Author, Nicholson, PA
http://www.suzannefisherstaples.com/
Margie Stern, President-Elect, Pennsylvania Library Association
http://www.palibraries.org/
Bill Unger, Past-President, Keystone State Reading Association
http://www.ksra.org/
Kyle Weaver, Editor, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA
http://www.stackpolebooks.com/cgi-bin/stackpolebooks.storefront
Kathy Glick-Weil, Retired Public Librarian, Bethlehem, PA
Board Members Emeriti
Tony Aquaviva, Production Director, Art Print Company, Taylor, PA
http://www.artprintco.com/index.htmKent Brown, Jr., Publisher, Boyds Mills Press, Honesdale, PA
http://www.boydsmillspress.comSara Jane Cate, Co-Chair, White House Conference on Library and Information Services Taskforce, 4502 Coventry Road, Harrisburg, PA 17109-1638
http://www.nclis.govJonelle Prether Darr, Pennsylvania Library Association President, 2004, Executive Director, Cumberland County Library System, Carlisle, PA
http://www.palibraries.orgSally Kalin, Associate Dean, University Park Libraries, Penn State University, University Park, PA
http://www.libraries.psu.edu
Bonnie MacEwan, Assistant Dean for Collections, University Libraries, Penn State University, 510 Paterno Library, University Park, PA 16802
http://www.libraries.psu.eduLarry Portzline, Author and Publisher, Bookshop Junkie Press, Harrisburg, PA
http://www.bookstoretourism.comGeneva Reeder, Immediate Past President, Pennsylvania School Librarians Association, Librarian, Lower Dauphin Middle School, Hummelstown, PA
http://www.psla.org and http://www.ldsd.org/middleschool/site/default.asp
Jack Sulzer, Associate Dean for Campus College Libraries, University Libraries, Penn State University, 510 Paterno Library, University Park, PA 16802
http://www.libraries.psu.eduConnie S. Unger, President, Keystone State Reading Association, Education Department, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
http://www.ksra.org and http://www.moravian.eduJames L. West, III, Ph.D. Director, Center for the History of the Book, Edwin Earle Sparks Professor, Penn State University, University Park, PA.
http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/histofbook/index.html
Gary D. Wolfe, Retired State Librarian Commissioner of Libraries & Deputy Secretary of Education, Commonwealth Avenue & Walnut Street, Box 1601, Harrisburg, PA 17105-1601
http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/libraries/site/default.aspJeffrey Wood, Owner, Whistlestop Bookshop, Carlisle, PA
http://www.dickinson.edu/carlisle/whistlestop.htmlMary Clare Zales, Deputy Secretary, Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Department of Education, Harrisburg, PA
http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/libraries/site/default.aspRon Zdrojkowski, Ph.D., Inventor, Murrysville, PA
Nancy L. Eaton is Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications at The Pennsylvania State University, where she has been since 1997. She is responsible for 38 libraries on 24 campuses, plus the Penn State Press. Previous positions include Dean of Library Services at Iowa State University and Director of Libraries and Media Services at the University of Vermont. She has served on numerous professional boards, including the Online Computer Library Center, the Research Libraries Group, the Association of Research Libraries, the Digital Library Federation, and the Library and Information Technology Association. She has served as principal investigator on five major grant-funded projects in the area of information technology. She was the recipient of the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award in 1995. She received her A.B. from Stanford University (1965) and her M.L.S. from the University of Texas at Austin (1968).
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Dr. Steven Herb is Director of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Herb holds the rank of Librarian and is Head of the Education and Behavioral Sciences Library at Penn State. He holds appointments as a member of the Graduate Faculty and Affiliate Professor of Language and Literacy Education in the College of Education.
In 2007, Herb was appointed to the Follett Chair in Library and Information Science at Dominican University in Chicago. This academic honor is Dominican University's first endowed chair and one of only five library and information science chairs in the nation. Herb is the third person to hold the Follett Chair, initiated in 2002. He was selected for his teaching ability and scholarly achievement. During his two year appointment as a visiting scholar he is teaching courses at Dominican, pursuing research and development in youth services, and developing strategic initiatives to benefit the Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Herb has a special interest in storytelling and its power. He is the co-author of the history of Penn State's school symbol— The Nittany Lion: An Illustrated Tale with Jackie Esposito (Penn State Press, 1997) and two children's literature textbooks for Neal-Schuman: Using Children's Books in Preschool Settings (1994) and Connecting Fathers, Children and Reading (2002), both with Sara Willoughby-Herb. His first-year seminar, "Stories and Storytelling: How Humans Become People," resulted in Herb being named Penn State's Most Innovative Faculty member of the year 2000 by the Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning and the Undergraduate Student Government Academic Assembly. He also received the University Libraries Award in 2000, an annual peer award recognizing Libraries' faculty and staff for their professional contributions to Penn State and the national library community.
Herb is a past president of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), one of the eleven divisions of the American Library Association. ALSC is probably best known for the annual awarding of the Caldecott and Newbery medals for children's books, but has been active in the literature choices and literacy rights of children for over a century. In 1997 Herb was appointed chair of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee and served in that capacity for three years.