Sarah Ostman Editor

Sarah Ostman is the communications manager in the American Library Association’s Public Programs Office, where she serves as editor of ProgrammingLibrarian.org, a web resource for library professionals. Before joining the ALA and the library field in 2014, she spent nearly a decade as a newspaper reporter, editor, and freelance writer. Ostman has an MA in journalism from Columbia College in Chicago and a BA in sociology and theater from Smith College in Massachusetts.

Stephanie Saba is a community program supervisor at San Mateo County Libraries in California. Over the last fifteen years, she has led book clubs in three different communities, including two twenty- to thirty- something book clubs, a mother-daughter book club, an adult book club, and a senior book club. She has served on the ALSC’s Early Childhood Programs and Services Committee, the CLA’s California Young Reader Medal Committee, the ALSC’s Public Awareness Committee, and the ALA’s Public and Cultural Programs Advisory Committee. Saba has an MLIS degree from San Jose State University and a BA in English literature from San Francisco State University.