Cindy mediavilla biography

          Cindy Mediavilla is library programs consultant for the California State Library and lecturer for the UCLA Department of Information Studies....

          Cindy Mediavilla spent 18 years as a public librarian and managed the Friendly Stop, a homework center for Orange (Calif.) Public Library, in the early 1990s.

          Cindy Mediavilla was an undergraduate English major when a college counselor advised her to use her B.A. to pursue one of three careers: lawyer, teacher.

        1. Cindy Mediavilla was an undergraduate English major when a college counselor advised her to use her B.A. to pursue one of three careers: lawyer, teacher.
        2. Mediavilla's proudest achievement is her year career as a librarian educator at UCLA and San Jose State University.
        3. Cindy Mediavilla is library programs consultant for the California State Library and lecturer for the UCLA Department of Information Studies.
        4. After working as a public librarian for 18 years, I returned to library school in to pursue a doctorate in library & information science (LIS).
        5. Cindy Mediavilla has been a member of the California Library Association for more than 30 years.

          6. She has been studying after-school homework programs ever since. Her book Creating and Managing the Full-Service Homework Center (ALA Editions, 2018) was excerpted in the July/August issue of American Libraries. She spoke with AL about the book, its inspiration, and her upcoming projects.

          What made you want to write this book?

          ALA Editions published the first version of the book, Creating the Full-Service Homework Center in Your Library, in 2001 after I went around the country researching public library homework centers—something that no one had done before.

          I thought once the original book came out, nobody would ever again have questions about how to start and run an after-school homework program. But then I started seeing queries pop up on some of the listservs, plus people began asking me when I was going to u