Joslyn Bowling Dixon is the Library Director for the Newark Public Library.

Joslyn has a depth of public library knowledge that spans 20 years of extensive management experience and includes supervising service to children and young adults in urban and suburban public library systems In Illinois, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia. Joslyn served on the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Executive Committee as the chair of the Marketing Committee and has presented at ALA national and regional conferences on the subject of spaces, places and literature for teens, as well as the need for civil discourse on race using the public library as an effective catalyst and platform for change. Joslyn has a B.A. in English from Hampton University and earned her MLIS in 2008 at Dominican University.

Location: Virginia

Keywords = Inclusion, Teen Services, Children’s Services, Race, Public Libraries

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