SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE:

• Follett Chair
• Past Follett Chairs

Past Follett Chairs

Steven L. Herb, (Follett Chair 2007-2009)

Herb is currently head of the education and behavioral sciences library and affiliate professor of language and literacy education at Penn State University. He is also director of the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.  Co-author of The Nittany Lion: An Illustrated Tale, a history of Penn State's school symbol, and two children's literature textbooks, Using Children's Books in Preschool Settings and Connecting Fathers, Children and Reading, Herb has a special interest in storytelling. He was named Penn State's Most Innovative Faculty Member in 2000 on the basis of his first-year seminar, "Stories and Storytelling: How Humans Become People."  Herb is past president of the Association for Library Service to Children and a three-term chair of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee. For the past six years, he has led the team that developed the online Literacy and Cultural Heritage Map of Pennsylvania, which received the 2005 Boorstin Award from the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Last year, his family literacy site at the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, developed in partnership with his wife Sara Willoughby-Herb, was used in connection with summer reading programs in 32 states across the country.

Edward J. Valauskus, Follett Chair (2005-2007)

Edward Valauskas is Chief Editor of First Monday, one of the first openly accessible, peer–r eviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its premiere issue in May 1996, First Monday (www.firstmonday.org) has published 775 papers in 129 issues. Author and editor of several books related to the Internet and computing, including The Internet for Teachers and School Media Specialists (with Monica Ertel), New York: Neal-Schuman, 1996; Internet Initiative: Libraries Providing Internet Services and How They Plan, Pay, and Manage (with Nancy R. John), Chicago: ALA Editions, 1995, Valauskas has also written many articles for magazines and journals. As a faculty member in Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Science Valauskas currently teaches a variety of graduate classes including Internet Publishing, Internet Fundamentals and Design, Information Policy, History of the Book, Early Books and Manuscripts, Descriptive Bibliography, and Reference Sources in the Sciences.

Martin Dillon, Follett Chair (2002-2005)

The Follett Chair is endowed through a gift from the Follett Corporation, a leading provider of educational solutions, services and products that empower schools, libraries, colleges, students and lifelong learners. This prestigious appointment is one of only four chairs in library science in the country.