Kim Becnel

Kim Becnel, Assistant Professor of Library Science at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, received her MLIS and PhD from the University of South Carolina in Columbia. With experience in public libraries in Louisiana and North Carolina, she now teaches and researches in the areas of public library management, youth services, children’s literature, distance learning, and epistemic gaming in education. Her work has appeared in Middle Management in Academic and Public Libraries (Libraries Unlimited 2011), Library Management Tips that Work (ALA 2011), Diversity in Youth Literature: Opening Doors Through Reading (ALA 2012) and Public Libraries.