Marilyn Irwin is associate professor emerita in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Indianapolis. Her teaching and research interests have been in disabilities and literature for youth. Irwin has chaired and served on the American Library Association's (ALA) Schneider Family Book Award jury and has held numerous elected and appointed positions within ALA's Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies.
Annette Y. Goldsmith is lecturer in the University of Washington Information School. She is coauthor of HIV/AIDS in Young Adult Novels: An Annotated Bibliography (Scarecrow, 2010). She has chaired and served on the Association for Library Service to Children Mildred L. Batchelder Award.
Rachel Applegate is chair of the Library and Information Science Department in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, Indianapolis. She is the author of Practical Evaluation Techniques for Librarians (2013) and is an accrediting site visitor and team chair for the Higher Learning Commission and the American Library Association.
