Professionals: Dianne McAfee Hopkins

Dr. Hopkins is Professor Emeritus and a former Assistant Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Library and Information Studies. She received AASL's Distinguished Service Award and served on ALA's Intellectual Freedom Committee. She was a member of the Board of the Library Research Roundtable of ALA. She was awarded the 2001 American Association of School Librarians / SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award.

Dianne served as the co-principal investigator in the evaluation of the National Library Power Program, an initative funded by the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.

Articles and Papers Online:
Hopkins, Dianne McAfee. School Library Media Centers and Intellectual Freedom. Intellectual Freedom Manual. American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/ . . . l/fifthedition/schoollibrary.cfm
As the first library that many children and young adults are introduced to and use on a continuing basis, school library media programs play a vital role in promoting intellectual freedom.

Hopkins, Dianne McAfee. Issues in the Education of School Library Media Specialists. Congress on Professional Education: Focus on Education for the First Professional Degree
http://www.ala.org/ala/educationcareer . . . issueseducation.cfm

Hopkins, Dianne McAffee. Toward a Conceptual Path of Support for School Library Media Specialists with Material Challenges. School Library Media Research; 1, 1998.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl . . . /volume11998slmqo/mcafee.cfm

Book:
Zweizig, Douglas & Hopkins, Dianne McAfee with Webb, Norman Lott & Wehlage, Gary (1999). Lessons from Library Power; Enriching Teaching and Learning (Initiative of the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund). Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.