Carrie Scott Banks has worked with and on behalf of children
with disabilities since high school. Taking over Brooklyn Public
Library’s Inclusive Services in 1997, she created their gardening
program in 1999. Ms. Banks taught inclusion at Pratt Institute from
2013 to 2015 and conducts inclusion trainings across the United
States and Canada. She has had many roles in ALA: ASGCLA
(Association of Specialized, Government and Cooperative Library
Agencies) board member, committee member and chair, program
organizer, and co-drafter of resources and tools for serving people
with disabilities. Her substantially revised edition of Including
Families of Children with Special Needs: A How-To-Do-It Manual for
Librarians was published in 2014.
Cindy Mediavilla is the author of several books, including
Creating & Managing the Full-Service Homework Center, which has
been called “the quintessential guide to the practicalities of
setting up a formal homework help center to provide one–to–one
homework assistance to student patrons” (Intner, Homework Help from
the Library, ix). In the early 1990s Mediavilla managed a homework
center, called the Friendly Stop, for the Orange (CA) Public
Library, and she has been studying after–school homework programs
ever since. She has published several articles on the topic and has
evaluated homework programs for the Long Beach and Los Angeles
public libraries. She has made presentations on homework help
programs at the conferences of several major library associations,
and she has also conducted many workshops on the topic. In 2007,
Cindy and her husband converted their home lawns to
drought-tolerant California native plant gardens. Their home has
been featured on several garden tours, including Theodore Payne
Foundation’s prestigious annual tour. A former public librarian for
18 years, Mediavilla has both an MLS degree and a doctorate in
library science from UCLA.
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