Meet Mary Ann Scheuer, Book Apps Chair

Multi-tasking Mary Ann is how she's introduced herself lately – but perhaps that's apt as we delve into the world of Book Apps that seem to do so many things at once. Mary Ann is a school librarian, mom to three, grad student and blogger. Each day she spreads a love of reading with 300 elementary students in Berkeley, CA …

Meet Gina Ruiz, Nonfiction MG/YA Chair

Gina Ruiz has Cybils hard-coded into her DNA or at least she thinks so because she's been with the Cybils from the beginning. When she is not living and breathing the Cybils, she is writing; working in a law office and glaring at a certain senior partner about his sentence structure; hanging with her grandkids; eagerly awaiting the arrival of …

Meet Terry Doherty, Easy Readers and Short Chapter Books Chair

I don't remember the first book I read "all by myself" and I don't know the name of every book I've ever read, but I will talk 'til I'm blue in the face about how much I love to read. And I will share that gift with everyone who is willing to listen to me read aloud. One of the …

Meet Jennifer Wharton, Our New Nonfiction Picture Books Chair

Jennifer is excited to be a first-time category chair for Nonfiction Picture Books. She has been on Cybils panels for three years and is looking forward to being in control. Mwa-ha-ha! When not obsessively reading and reviewing for one of her two blogs, Jean Little Library and Flying Off My Bookshelf she is the youth services librarian for the mid-sized public library …

Meet Liz Jones, Graphic Novels Chair

Liz Jones has participated in the Cybils graphics group one way or another since 2007. For the past few years, a 90 hour work week put a damper on her posting at lizjonesbooks.livejournal.com — but she's happy to be down off that schedule in 2012. She's busily catching up on her reading, sending her college students off in search of …

Meet Karen Yingling, Our New Middle Grade Fiction Chair

A middle aged, middle school librarian from the Midwest, I've been blogging since 2006 at Ms. Yingling Reads. My students are impressed that I've read every hardcover fiction book in our school library, but it was really an evil plan to be allowed to read to my heart's content and be able to tell people to stop bugging me because …

Welcome to the 2012 Cybils

The 2012 Cybils Awards are officially underway,  and you'll be hearing a lot more from us via the blog in the coming weeks! Meanwhile, our organizing team is busy behind the scenes picking out judges, distributing our 2011 flyers, updating our Cybils swag, and gearing up for the start of nominations on Oct. 1. For a walk down memory lane, …