Melissa Gross is a professor in the School of Information at Florida State University and a past president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998 and was awarded the prestigious American Association of University Women Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars in 2001. She teaches and does research in the areas of Information seeking behavior, resources for youth, research methods, the evaluation of library programs and services, information literacy, and teacher and librarian collaboration. She has published extensively in a variety of peer-reviewed journals and is author, co-author, or co-editor of ten books.

Don Latham is a professor in the School of Information at Florida State University.?His research focuses on information behavior of young adults, digital literacies, and young adult literature and literacy practices, and he has published in such journals as Library Quarterly, Library and Information Science Research, Children's Literature, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and Children's Literature in Education.?He has received research grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, OCLC/ALISE, and the Florida State University Council on Research and Creativity.?He is co-editor of From Text to Epitext: Expanding Students' Comprehension, Engagement, and Media Literacy (2021), The Information Literacy Framework: Case Studies of Successful Implementation (2020), Literacy Engagement through Peritextual Analysis (2019), and co-author of Young Adult Resources Today: Connecting Teens with Books, Music, Games, Movies, and More (2014). He teaches graduate courses in Information Needs of Children, Information Needs of Young Adults, Graphic Novels in Libraries, and in spring 2023 he will teach a special topics course on Nonfiction Resources for Children and Young Adults.