Meet Mrs. Jones
2025 Time100 Next Person of the Year
2023 AASL Intellectual Freedom Award 2023 ALA Paul Howard Award for Courage 2023 ALA IFRT John Immroth Award 2023 LLA Alex Allain Intellectual Freedom Award 2022 EdTech Magazine Top 30 K-12 IT Influencers to Watch 2021 School Library Journal Librarian of the Year 2021 Library Journal Mover & Shaker 2020 LA Department of Education Dream Teacher 2019 LACUE Middle School State Teacher of the Year 2020 Louisiana School Librarian of the Year 2009 LOM Teacher of the Year I am a 26 year educator: a former 7th and 8th grade English Language Arts teacher and current school librarian. I have a Masters +30, and I am a certified K-12 librarian, certified 1-8 elementary teacher, certified school administrator, and certified reading specialist. I attended LOMS as a child and graduated from LOHS. I am a Past President of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians and our library was the winner of the 2019 LLA James O Modisette Award for top middle school library programming in Louisiana. I am a 2021 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, the 2021 SLJ Co-Librarian of the Year, the 2020 Louisiana School Librarian of the Year. In 2023, I was awarded the AASL Intellectual Freedom Award, ALA IFRT John Immroth Award, ACRL-LA Library Profressional Award, LLA Alex Allain Intellectual Freedom Award, and the ALA IFRT Paul Howard Award for Courage. In 2025, I was named one of the world's most influential rising stars by Time100 Next. I enjoy presenting at state, regional, national, and international conferences. I am a former AASL Chapter Assembly Secretary and the AASL23 National Conference Co-Chair. In 2021, I joined the Advisory Council of the University of Iowa's (formerly of South Carolina College of Information and Communication) Online Ready program for school librarians. I am also a founding member of the nonprofit Librarians Building Libraries and spent July 2025 building a library in rural Kenya. I have the best job in the world, and I have enjoyed making our school library the heart of the school. My book, That Librarian, is a national bestseller and has been optioned for a film. I am also in the critically acclaimed documentary The Librarians, directed by Oscar nominated director Kim A Snyder and executive produced by Sarah Jessica Parker. I reside in Watson with my husband and child, both of whom graduated from Live Oak High School. |
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