Mirah Dow
	MLS, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Director of School Library Media, School of Library and Information Management Emporia State University
	Mirah Dow is trained as a teacher and school librarian. Her commitment to school-aged children and youth, teacher-librarians, reflective practices, resource-based solutions for increasing student learning, and technology is seen in her college teaching and recent research investigating cognitive consequences of internet-based teaching and learning. According to Mirah, "Assessment is telling a story. Teacher-librarians must become the best at doing assessment well. This electronic tool kit should set the stage for telling a comprehensive story of student learning and achieving standards."
	Harry Willems
	MA, MLS,Consultant, Assistant Director, Southeast Kansas Library System
	Harry Willems has worked with fourty school districts since 1993 providing consulting to librarians on all aspects of librarianship. He has worked with administrators of several schools reviewing plans for new libraries adding suggestions to current plans and help with pre-planning of library space usage. He has targeted one aspect of librarianship that will help the librarians, administration and students alike; learning to use library and school standards for cross curricular planning with teachers and doing targeted collection development to achieve the schools academic goals.
	Contact Authors:
	Mirah Dow
	Campus Box 4025, Emporia State University, 1200 Commercial street, Emporia, KS 66801-5087 dowmirah@emporia.edu 1-800-552-4770 620-341-5233 (fax)
	Harry Willems
	Southeast Kansas Library System Iola, KS 66749 harryw@alltel.net 620.365.5136 620.365.5137 (fax)

 

Contents written by Dr.Mirah Dow and Harry Willems.