Marcia A. Mardis is a professor and institute director at Florida State University's School of Information, USA. She is the author of The Collection's at the Core: Revitalize Your Library with Innovative Resources for the Common Core and STEM (2014) and The Collection Program in Schools: Concepts and Practices (2021), editor of Librarians and Educators Collaborating for Success: The International Perspective (2016), and co-editor of Social Justice and Cultural Competency: Essential Readings for School Librarians (with Dianne Oberg, 2019). She chaired and was the lead author of AASL’s National School Library Standards.