Walter Minkel

Walter Minkel is a youth librarian with more than twenty years' experience, a puppeteer, and a storyteller, but the Web lured him away. He now is school corps technology trainer for Multnomah County (Ore.) Library. He manages the KidsPage for Multnomah County Library and created the Newbery and Caldecott Medal home pages and the Coretta Scott King Awards page for the American Library Association. He also is comanager, with Roxanne Hsu Feldman, of the ALSC Web site. He has written several articles on young people and the Web for School Library Journal.