About Us

Little eLit Raison D'être

Little eLit reviews apps and eBooks for children aged 2-5; reviews scholarly and professional materials about media use in early childhood; maintains a current list of other review resources; provides information about digital and media literacy; and documents the digital natives in their natural environment. We review media from as many different sources and on as many different devices as possible, and we field-test them with digital natives in our target age range.

Editor

Cen Campbell

Adult/Teen Services Librarian
Mountain View Library

Cen began her professional library career as a Bookmobile manager is rural Nova Scotia, after which she escaped to the warmth of California’s central valley, where she managed a branch library, had a brief stint as acting regional manager for 4 branches, and finally found her rightful place in the Youth Services department.  She attended the Eureka Leadership Institute in 2008 and took charge of Stanislaus County Library’s Teen Department. Now she runs an Early Literacy program at Blossom Birth Services and runs amok in the Mountain View Library’s Adult, Teen and Technical Services departments.

Contributors

Genesis Hansen
Web Services and Reference Coordinator,
Newport Beach Public Library
Genesis is a colleague of mine from one of those fancy California Library Association Leadership Training shindigs.   She has two little digital natives, aged 3 and <1.


Leslie McNabb

Branch Manager, Clairemont Library,

San Diego Public Library

Leslie has been a Branch Manager for two years. Previously she was a Youth Services Librarian for three years, and prior to that a high school teacher. Her job entails everything from reference, collection development and maintenance, programming, serving on committees, publicity and promotion, outreach, circulation, book club facilitation, and maintaining the branch. She is also a member of the International Relations Committee for the American Library Association. She is a 2010 Eureka Institute Fellow. Her undergraduate and MLIS degrees are from the University of Washington, and her Masters in Teaching is from Western Washington University. Leslie is a new mother with a five month old daughter, Jordan Magnolia. She owns a Nook, an iPhone, and covets the iPad.