Previously, Ann was a high school and middle school social studies and language arts teacher, and a middle school and academic librarian. She also has taught teacher education courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Ann's primary research focuses on school library advocacy. Her work has been published in School Library Research, School Libraries Worldwide, Knowledge Quest, Teacher-Librarian, School Library Media Activities Monthly, The Journal of Research on Technology in Education and Phi Delta Kappan. Also a past-president of the Arizona Library Association, Ann was named one of Library Journal's "Movers and Shakers" of 2009.