Nancy Everhart (Associate Professor) earned a B.S. from Kutztown University, M. Ed. from the University of Central Florida, and Ph.D. from Florida State University where she was the recipient of the Madge Hutcherson Fellowship. She has been employed as a high school library media specialist in Pennsylvania and as a faculty member at St. John's University, New York. She serves as the Director of the school media program at FSU and co-directs Project LEAD an IMLS initiative that prepares school library media specialists for leadership roles via National Board Certification. Winner of the 1990 ALISE Outstanding Dissertation Award, her research interests are in the area of the impact of technology on the role of the school library media specialist, evaluation of school libraries and staffing. She is the author of Evaluating the School Library Media Center and Controversial Issues in School Librarianship as well as over 60 articles in the school media field. Dr. Everhart is active in the American Association of School Librarians where she serves as research editor of Knowledge Quest, associate editor of School Library Media Research, and is a former member of the Board of Directors. She is also a current member of the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME) Board of Directors.