About Becoming American

Advisory Group

The following librarians, scholars and ALA staff members served on the advisory group for “Becoming American – New Immigration Stories” and participated in a planning meeting held in October 2004 in Chicago.

Facilitator

• Kathy Ann East, Assistant Director and Head of the Children’s Department, Wood County Public Library

American Library Association

• Keith Michael Fiels, Executive Director
• Susan Brandehoff, Project Director, ALA Public Programs Office
• Laura Hayes, Program Officer, ALA Public Programs Office
• Bill Ott, Editor and Publisher, Booklist
• Hazel Rochman, Contributing Editor, Booklist
• Susan Roman, Director, ALA Development Office

National Endowment for the Humanities

• Nancy Rogers, Director, Division of Public Programs
• Thomas Phelps, Senior Program Officer, Division of Public Programs

Carnegie Corporation of New York

• Rookaya Bawa, Program Officer, International Development

Project Scholars

• Helen Cox, Executive Director of Human Pursuits and Associate Vice President for General and International Education, Salt Lake Community College
• Peter Liebhold, Chair and Curator, Division of Work and Industry, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
• James A. Miller, Professor of English and American Studies and Director of Africana Studies, George Washington University
• Valerie Smith, African American Studies Department, Princeton University
• Ilán Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five-College 40th Anniversary Distinguished Professor, Amherst College

Librarian Consultants

• Nancy Davenport, President, Council on Library and Information Resources
• Ann Carlson Weeks, Professor of the Practice, University of Maryland/College of Information Studies
• Junko Yokota, Professor, The Reading Center at National-Louis University

Reading List Authors

• Maria Salvador, Consultant, Children's Literature and Literacy
• Hazel Rochman, Contributing Editor, Booklist Magazine
• Bill Ott, Contributing Editor and Publisher, Booklist Magazine