We are excited to welcome to our new HVLA Board Members!
Bethany Martin is a “Navy brat” who studied sociology at New College of Florida, before moving to New York City. She earned her MSLIS from Pratt and worked as the Director of Library Services at Dwight School for ten years before becoming Director of Libraries at Trinity School. She’s spent quite a bit of time thinking about using games to teach research skills and the ideal way to evaluate independent school librarians. Predictably, Bethany enjoys reading. She lives in Queens with her husband and son. She is usually up for a board game or a cup of tea, and her Instagram feed is full of different playgrounds she’s visited with her son and odd books she’s weeded from her library’s collection.
Christine Nassar is a librarian at The Dalton School, working with grades K-3. She 
obtained her Master’s of Information from Rutgers University, with a concentration in Library and Information Sciences, and a specialization in School Media. She is a lover of graphic novels and picture books. Some of Christine’s favorites are Journey, by Aaron Becker, Stuck, by Oliver Jeffers, and Cardboard Kingdom, by Chad Sell. Christine speaks English, French, Arabic, and some rather rusty Italian, which she is always happy to practice.
Lisa Norberg is the Library Director and College Advisor for La Scuola d’Italia “Guglielmo Marconi”. She loves working with faculty to find new ways to integrate the library into the curriculum and collaborating on the unending challenge of making students discerning information consumers. Before transitioning to school librarianship, Lisa spent over 20 years in academic libraries, holding positions at Barnard College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Penn State Harrisburg, and George Mason University. She has a M.L.S. from Indiana University at Bloomington and a B.S. from the University of Wyoming. She is an advocate for open access publishing, a lover of jazz and an Italian organic farmer wannabe.