Library Development Division Staff

Holly Henley
Division Director

Consultants

Holly Henley

Holly Henley joined the Arizona State Library’s Library Development Division in 2004 after working in the Kyrene School District in Tempe as a Teacher-Librarian and Assistant Principal. Prior to that, she was a full-time mom to her two sons and volunteered at their schools, serving on the Kyrene Community Foundation Board, as president of the Parent-Teacher Organization, and as an Art Masterpiece guide. She had started her career as a Children’s Librarian in a public library in her home state of Virginia and then became manager of the bookmobile. Holly earned her B.A. in French and Secondary Education from the University of Richmond and her M.L.S. from the University of Maryland in College Park.

As an LDD consultant, Holly serves as the liaison for teacher-librarians and youth services librarians in public libraries. In December 2005, she began managing the Carnegie Center and became Director of the Arizona State Library Center for the Book. The Carnegie Center hosts training events for the State Library and offers meeting facilities to state agencies and non-profit organizations. Building a New Generation of Readers, the Arizona Reading Program, ONEBOOKAZ, and Letters About Literature are several of the Arizona Center for the Book's programs that promote reading and literacy.

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Malavika Muralidharan

Mala is responsible for helping public and tribal libraries to apply for e-rate funding. She works with them on their Tech Plans and is actively testing Tech Atlas as a planning tool. Mala is an active advocate and editor of WebJunction – a networking portal for Libraries and Museums in Arizona. Mala also assists in providing access to a number of databases state-wide and is the project manager for the Gates Grant and an evaluator for the LSTA Tech grants. As a member of the Steering committee for the Gates funded MaintainIT Project she has assisted in bringing out cookbooks to help maintain healthy computers. Past projects she has managed at LDD include the ONEBOOKAZ and Planning for Results.

Mala comes to the Arizona State Library after 23 years of holding management positions in academic and public libraries in India. Before coming to the USA she was the Regional Librarian, West India, heading the world’s largest and busiest British Council Library in Bombay. Mala was also one of three consultants to the British Government's Aid project for libraries in India, assisting in the development and upgrading several Engineering Colleges.

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Laura Stone

Laura Stone is the Grants Administrator at the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, where she coordinates Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grants; the State Grants-in-Aid program; and public library statistics. She has previously worked as the program director at the Arizona Humanities Council, and at the Casa Grande Valley Historical Society, leaving that small museum as the executive director. Laura is a graduate of the University of Arizona (BA in journalism), Arizona State University (MA in history); and the University of Arizona School of Information Resources And Library Science (Master of Arts in Information Resources and Library Science).

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Mary Villegas

Mary Villegas has a Bachelor of Science in Finance (Arizona State University), Juris Doctor (Arizona State University) and is currently pursuing her Masters in Library Science degree at the University of Arizona. She has been involved in the telecommunications industry for over 9 years and has worked for several local telecommunications companies including one owned and operated by a Tribal community in eastern Arizona. She has also worked with the Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs as a Business development representative. She has also taught Indian Law at a local community college.

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Program Specialist

Shayna Muckerheide

Shayna supports adult services in libraries and coordinates ONEBOOKAZ and special events for the State Library. She began working for the Agency in 2009 after doing medical writing/editing for 6.5 years.
Shayna has a B.A. in Journalism and a B.A. in Italian from ASU and is expecting to complete her MLIS from San Jose State University in December 2011. She previously interned at ASU at West Campus' Fletcher Library and volunteered at the Rosson House Museum, the Phoenix Museum of History, and the Arizona Historical Society.

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Administrative Support Staff

Michael Girod

Mike keeps the staff and visitors to the Carnegie Center safe, works with Gloria on setting up the building for continuing education events and meetings, and helps as needed with LDD projects. Make says he is just a regular guy who enjoys watching sports, grilling out and spending time with his wife and two girls. Mike is a big Oklahoma Sooners and Arizona Diamondbacks fan. Mike has been in the security field for 10 years and says he very much enjoys the people he works with and the position he is in now.

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Betsy Howard

Betsy is a native Arizonian. She attended Arcadia High School and holds an Associate of Applied Sciences degree in Medical Records Technology from Phoenix College. Her career with state government began in February 1980. While working in the Law and Research Library Division of the State Library, Betsy has worked with the state and federal government documents collections, the map collection, genealogy collection, newspaper collection and interlibrary loan. In April 1993, Betsy transferred to the Library Development Division where her duties as library development assistant includes working on the public library statistics, providing support for the County Librarians’ meetings, supporting the Library Institute, and other duties as assigned.

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Gloria Rojel

Gloria Rojel schedules facility use of the Carnegie Center and cheerfully answers the phone, greets visitors, and makes sure the building is setup for events.
Gloria is a native Arizonian, hailing from northern Arizona. She graduated from high school in Winslow and moved down to Phoenix after her marriage. She has earned several college credits while she has worked. She was a bilingual assistant at a Phoenix area school before coming to the Arizona State Library in 1994.
Gloria is ever smiling and always giving the consultants a hand with all their projects.

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Carol Tapia

In 2002, GladysAnn Wells presented a Turtle Award for staff excellence to Carol Tapia. She has worked in a variety of places in the agency and always distinguished herself as someone who can get things done.

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