Linda Diekman is a National Board Certified Teacher and holds advanced degrees in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently a librarian in an elementary school, she has taught information literacy skills across all grade levels from kindergarten through graduate school. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Illinois’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science and at Illinois State University’s College of Education. As you might imagine, Ms. D. is an avid reader, researcher, and writer.