Librarian
Academy of the Sacred Heart
Soline Holmes is a librarian and the Information Services Department Chair at Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the Secretary for ALA's Graphic Novels and Comics Roundtable. She is also a member of ALSC's Children and Libraries Editorial Advisory Committee and Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee, serves on the Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award committees for K-2nd grade and 3rd-5th grade, and was Chair of the New Orleans Information Literacy Collective. She has given presentations on graphic novels; primary sources; nature and libraries; Mother Goose and STEM; and Global Education at local and national conferences. Soline co-authored an article about graphic novels as informational texts for Children and Libraries and is co-authoring a chapter for ALA's forthcoming book, "Mental Health and Children's Literature: Evaluating, Curating, and Sharing Books with Children." She is the proud recipient of a 2019 Judith F. Krug Banned Books Week grant for her school library and was honored to participate in ALSC's 2022 Bill Morris seminar. She is a member of the second cohort for Online Ready: Designing Culturally Competent and Impactful K-12 Online Learning sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Soline is a Teaching with Primary Sources Network Mentor for the Library of Congress and co-authored ALA's libguide, Programming with Library of Congress Digital Collections.
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