Deborah B. Ford, JLG’s Director of Library Outreach, is an award-winning library media specialist and international speaker with almost thirty years of experience as a classroom teacher and librarian in K–12 schools. She is the former District Resource Librarian for San Diego Unified School District, which serves over 180 schools. Traveling across North America, she does workshops, library coaching, and professional development for school and public libraries. She writes a weekly column for School Library Journal in Extra Helping, JLG’s Booktalks to Go. She also maintains an award-winning coordinating online resource at LiveBinders.com.