M. Elena Lopez, PhD, is an independent researcher on the ecology of learning that includes the home, school, and community. She regularly contributes to research, policy, and practice on family engagement in children's learning. Trained in social anthropology, she is interested in the dynamic interplay of individual agency and system factors in promoting educational equity. As a member of the board of the Mountain View Public Library (2016–2021), she has sought to develop policies for greater access and engagement with library programs and services.

Bharat Mehra, PhD, is professor and EBSCO Endowed Chair in Social Justice in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. Growing up in India created an awareness and acceptance of human diversity in its multiple forms of expression, thought, and action. His training as an architect in New Delhi made him visually literate and sensitive towards human factors in design. His many research interests include diversity and inclusion advocacy, intercultural communication and action, social justice in library and information science, community engaged scholarship, and critical and cross-cultural studies.

Margaret Caspe, PhD, is an educator, researcher, and writer who focuses on how families, early childhood programs, schools, and communities support children's learning. She is coeditor of Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning, and her work has appeared in Public Library Quarterly, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, School Community Journal, Young Children, and Childhood Education.

Endorsements

"A Librarian's Guide to Engaging Families in Learning provides a significant contribution to the professional development literature. This timely and valuable resource brings together the work of some of the most knowledgeable and credible researchers. Together, they successfully lay out key issues for library faculty and librarians to integrate family engagement in children's learning."—Patricia A. Edwards, Professor, Michigan State University

"Public libraries are centered in this book that promotes family engagement in learning. This essential professional and teaching resource provides cases, research, and reflections that ground and re-imagine your library's services in family learning as a collaborative process. It is an invitation to work with families from different and all walks of life to instill the practice of lifelong learning and support community building and empowerment."—Clara M. Chu, Mortenson Distinguished Professor and Director, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"A Librarian's Guide to Engaging Families in Learning provides an in-depth look at family learning, which is essential to children's development. This book is divided into four parts that touch all facets that one needs to know to develop family learning. In particular, Part 2, Knowing Families and Communities, provides information about programs that can be easily replicated to your own needs."—Nancy C. Pack, Director, Alabama Public Library Service