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Buffy Edwards, MLIS, PhD, worked in K-12 school libraries for three decades as a practitioner and as the District Library Information Specialist, Norman Public Schools (NPS), Norman, Oklahoma. Changing career lanes in 2016, Buffy travels and visits school libraries across the U.S. Dr. Edwards continues to guide preservice librarians in the role of an online professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma. Buffy is author of several articles and contributed a chapter to the GId High School book.
Valérie Glass has been a certified teacher librarian since 2011. She has been working at the Lycée international in Lyon, France since 2016. She is a member of the national board of APDEN and in charge of international relationships. She is chair of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on School Libraries.
Rei Iwasaki has been a Professor at Kyoto Notre Dame University in Kyoto, Japan since 2012. She completed her EdM at the University of Tokyo. Her main research/professional topic is school library services for children’s reading and learning in Japan. She is a chairperson of Kyoto City’s Library Council and a member of the Board of Directors at Kyoto Lifelong Learning Foundation. Previous experiences include a chairperson of the meeting of experts of children’s reading in Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. She won awarded the Kyoto Prize for her distinguished services in education.
Melissa P. Johnston is a Professor at the University of West Georgia, where she teaches graduate courses in the school library media program. Johnston’s research and publications focus on the school librarian’s leadership role in integrating technology. She is the author of numerous articles in journals such as School Library Research, School Libraries Worldwide, and School Library Connection. Johnston is the Chair of the IFLA/IASL Joint Committee and the Co-Editor of School Libraries Worldwide.
Jenna Nemec-Loise, MLIS, is Director of Library and Information Literacy and Lower School Librarian at North Shore Country Day, a junior kindergarten through twelfth grade independent school in Winnetka, Illinois, USA. Her primary research interests include human development approaches to school library impact studies and the information-seeking behavior of pre-readers. A doctoral student in Dominican University’s School of Information Studies program, Jenna will complete her dissertation, “Deconstructing Definition: A Qualitative Content Analysis of School Library Impact as Human Capability in Empirical Research Studies from Brazil, New Zealand Aotearoa, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, and the Philippines,” in 2022.
Yumiko Kasai, PhD, is a scholar in the areas of children’s information behaviour and learning environment, including the school library and learning spaces. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, School of Literature, Tsurumi University, Yokohama, Japan. Yumiko started her academic research in 2000 after working as an information specialist in a Japanese company, a non-profit organization affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and the Embassy of Japan in Singapore. As an academic advisor, she has been involved with with design of several school library media centres in Japan.
Dianne Oberg, PhD, is a Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Before coming to the University, Dianne worked as a classroom teacher and teacher-librarian in the public school system. Her research focuses on teacher-librarianship education and on the implementation and evaluation of school library programs. Dianne was the editor of the international journal School Libraries Worldwide and continues to be an active member of school library associations at local, national, and international levels.
Mutsumi Ohira has worked as Professor at Kyoto Sangyo University in Kyoto, Japan since 2012. She completed her PhD at Osaka University. Her main research/professional topics are educational technology, school library education programs for children’s learning and distance learning. She is a chairperson of Osaka Prefecture’s and Izumi City’s Council on Promotion of Children’s Reading. Previous professional experiences include teacher at private junior high school, Sakai City Board of Education Participation in School Library Promotion Project. She is the Vice President of NPO Sakai International Association.
Darryl Toerien is Head of Inquiry-Based Learning at Blanchelande College in Guernsey. He is an elected member of the Section Standing Committee for School Libraries of the International Federation of Library associations and Institutions (IFLA) and a co-opted member of the Board of the School Library Association (UK). He developed FOSIL in 2011 and founded the FOSIL Group in 2019 to better support the growing international community of librarians and teachers who are using FOSIL to frame learning. Since 2020 he has been collaborating closely with Barbara Stripling on the ongoing development of FOSIL and the FOSIL Group.
Barbara Schultz-Jones, PhD, is Professor, Associate Chair, Director of the School Library Certification and Youth Librarianship programs, and serves as Director of the Master of Science in Library Science or Information Science programs at the University of North Texas. She is a past-Chair of the IFLA School Libraries Section, current member of IFLA’s Section on Education and Training and an active member of IASL. She and Dianne Oberg co-edited the 2015 IFLA School Library Guidelines (2015), Global Action on School Library Guidelines (2015), and Global Action on School Library Education and Training (2018). Her research centres on the school library learning environment.
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