The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) released a roster of new board members last week. Marcia Mardis, associate professor in the School of Information, was named Chair of AASL’s Standards and Guidelines Editorial Board. Mardis was brought on to evaluate and revise the association’s learning standards and program guidelines.

Highly respected in the field of research, she has been recognized by her peers as “the most widely published researcher on the intersection of school libraries, science learning, and digital resources.” Mardis has served on the AASL research and statistics committee, the School Library Research editorial board and the 2007 learning standards rewrite task force.

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