John’s University, where she earned her MLS with a concentration in children’s services. She received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2009 and has since earned an Advanced Certificate in School Library Media. Shari’s research considers the changing notions and physical structures of the public library as place and space. She is primarily concerned with how architecture and design elements affect human behavior and how this applies to the public library setting – specifically to teen spaces. This was the focus of her dissertation (Teen Space: Designed for Whom?), for which she received the 2011 Eugene Garfield/ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award. Shari served as co-convener of the Multicultural and Humanistic Concerns SIG for three years and, more recently, as a member of the ALISE Diversity Taskforce. She was a recipient of the Library Scholars Program Fellowship at UCLA in 2004 and a Gates Millennium Scholar.