Laura Beals D’Elia is currently the Library Teacher at the Armstrong Elementary School in Westborough, MA. She has been an elementary school librarian since 2002. She has a BA in English and Children’s Literature from Framingham State University and a MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has presented at various conferences such as MSLA, Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference, MassCUE, MTA Summer Conference, MTA New Teachers, and the American Association of School Libraries in Hartford. She also presented an EdTalk on “Razing Readers” at the MTA Summer Conference in 2013. She was a co-organizer of Edcamp Boston for seven years, the Massachusetts School Library Association’s Professional Learning Committee Co-Chair, and a recipient of the 2017 MSLA Service Award.