Pennsylvania Center for the Book

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.

Tony Aquaviva, Production Director, Art Print Company, Taylor, PA
http://www.artprintco.com/index.htm

Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Writer, Moscow, PA. http://www.scbartoletti.com

Kent Brown, Jr., Publisher, Boyds Mills Press, Honesdale, PA
http://www.boydsmillspress.com

Jonelle Prether Darr, Pennsylvania Library Association President, 2004, Executive Director, Cumberland County Library System, Carlisle, PA
http://www.palibraries.org

Nancy Eaton (ex-officio), Dean, Penn State University Libraries, University Park, PA

Steven Herb, Ph.D. (ex-officio), Director, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, University Park, PA

Sally Kalin, Associate Dean, University Park Libraries, Penn State University, University Park, PA
http://www.libraries.psu.edu

Joseph Kelly, Ph.D. Executive Director, PA Humanities Council, Constitution Place, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.pahumanities.org

Nancy Leuschner, Retired English & Humanities Teacher, Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, PA
http://www.hacc.edu

Larry Portzline, Author and Publisher, Bookshop Junkie Press, Harrisburg, PA
http://www.bookstoretourism.com

Geneva 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

Connie S. Unger, President, Keystone State Reading Association, Education Department, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
http://www.ksra.org and http://www.moravian.edu

James 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

Jeffrey Wood, Owner, Whistlestop Bookshop, Carlisle, PA
http://www.dickinson.edu/carlisle/whistlestop.html

Mary Clare Zales, Deputy Secretary, Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Department of Education, Harrisburg, PA
http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/libraries/site/default.asp

Ron Zdrojkowski, Ph.D., Inventor, Murrysville, PA

Board Members Emeriti

Sara Jane Cate, Co-Chair, White House Conference on Library and Information Services Taskforce, 4502 Coventry Road, Harrisburg, PA 17109-1638
http://www.nclis.gov

Bonnie MacEwan, Assistant Dean for Collections, University Libraries, Penn State University, 510 Paterno Library, University Park, PA 16802
http://www.libraries.psu.edu

Jack Sulzer, Associate Dean for Campus College Libraries, University Libraries, Penn State University, 510 Paterno Library, University Park, PA 16802
http://www.libraries.psu.edu

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.asp


Nancy L. Eaton has been Dean of University Libraries at Penn State since September 1, 1997. Previous positions included Dean of Library Services, Iowa State University (1989-1997); Director of Libraries and Media Services, University of Vermont (1982-1989); Technical Services Administrator, Atlanta Public Library (1976-1982); Automation Librarian, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1974-1976); and various positions at the University of Texas at Austin (1968-1974).

Ms. Eaton has been very active professionally, holding such offices and positions as OCLC Board of Trustees (1986 - present, including Board chair from 1993-1997 and chair of the OCLC Presidential Search Committee, 1997/98. She is currently chair of OCLC’s Strategic Directions and Governance Advisory Council, 1999- .); ARL Board of Directors (1994-1997); Center for Research Libraries’ Board of Directors (1988-1992, chair, 1990/91); and president of the Library and Information Technology Association (1983/84). She accepted an appointment to the Library of Congress’ National Digital Strategy Advisory Board, 2001 – 2003.

Ms. Eaton holds an A.B. from Stanford University (1965) and an MLS from the University of Texas at Austin (1968). Return

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.

He has a special interest in storytelling and the power stories hold. Herb is the co-author of the history of Penn State's school symbol—The Nittany Lion: An Illustrated Tale (with Jackie Esposito). 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 Undergraduate Student Government Academic Assembly and the Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning. 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 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. Return


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