Melissa Gross is professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Florida State University. She is the author of Studying Children's Questions: Imposed and Self-Generated Information Seeking at School (Scarecrow, 2006) and coauthor of Dynamic Youth Services through Outcome Based Planning and Evaluation (2006).

Annette Y. Goldsmith is the founding editor of The Looking Glass, an international children's literature e-journal.

Debi Carruth is a doctoral candidate at the Florida State University College of Communication and Information.
Melissa Gross is a professor in the School of Information at Florida State University and a past president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998 and was awarded the prestigious American Association of University Women Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars in 2001. She teaches and does research in the areas of Information seeking behavior, resources for youth, research methods, the evaluation of library programs and services, information literacy, and teacher and librarian collaboration. She has published extensively in a variety of peer-reviewed journals and is author, co-author, or co-editor of ten books.
Annette Y. Goldsmith is a Lecturer in the University of Washington Information School. She is founding editor of the online international youth literature journal, The Looking Glass http://www.the-looking-glass.net/, and has chaired the Association for Library Service to Children’s Mildred L. Batchelder Award Committee.