Marybeth Zeman

Marybeth Zeman has been a teacher on the elementary, high school and college level for more than thirty years and, since 2010, has served as transitional counselor for a school program for incarcerated youth at the Nassau County Correctional Center. In 2009, she was awarded a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Scholarship from St. John's University where she earned a master's degree in Library Science and Information Services. Zeman has been a high school ESL teacher at W.T. Clarke High School,...See more

Marybeth Zeman has been a teacher on the elementary, high school and college level for more than thirty years and, since 2010, has served as transitional counselor for a school program for incarcerated youth at the Nassau County Correctional Center. In 2009, she was awarded a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Scholarship from St. John's University where she earned a master's degree in Library Science and Information Services. Zeman has been a high school ESL teacher at W.T. Clarke High School, and an adjunct professor at Queensborough Community College, Nassau Community College and St. Joseph's College. Zeman is involved with the juvenile justice community and is a champion for the rights of the incarcerated and the formerly incarcerated. She is a member of advocacy groups Think Outside the Cell and the Education from the Inside Out. She has been an active participant in the Juvenile Justice Exchange Group formed on LinkedIn. Zeman is a member of the American Library Association and its sub-committees operating under the ASCLA-American Special Collection Library Association and OLOS-Office of Library Outreach Services, Library Services to Incarcerated Individuals and via ALA Connect, and is a member of the Prison Librarian's Group. Most recently, she has become a member of the Library Services to Youth in Custody Group. Zeman contributes regularly as a blog writer for the Public Libraries Online magazine. Recent blog articles: Being a Librarian-It's a Wonderful Life http: //publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/12/being-a-librarian-its-a-wonderful-life/ Juvenile Ex-Offenders Need Libraries, Too http: //publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/11/juvenile-ex-offenders-need-libraries-too/ See less