Sonnet Ireland

Reference Librarian
St. Tammany Parish Library

Sonnet Ireland is currently a reference librarian for the St. Tammany Parish Library, where she has created classes for the public on information literacy, as well as news literacy, financial literacy, and computer literacy. She has presented at numerous state, regional, national, and international conferences, including the Federal Depository Library Conference and the IFLA World Library and Information Congress. As a founding member of the NOLA information Literacy Collective, Sonnet has been on the Executive Board since 2012 and has served as Chair of the Board twice (2014 and 2017).

She currently serves as Chair of the Government Documents Round Table of the Southeastern Library Association and Coordinator of the State and Local Documents Task Force of ALA’s GODORT. She is also the incoming Second Vice President of the Louisiana Library Association. Her research interests include government information, social media, Google, and news/media literacy.

In her spare time, she likes to read, ponder weird questions, and rescue random animals from the highway. She is owned by a clowder of cats who are indignant that they are down to one servant this week.

Presentation(s):

• Fact or fake? Teaching Our Patrons How to Tell the Difference

  Sunday, June 25
  11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

• Fact or fake? Teaching Our Patrons How to Tell the Difference

  Sunday, June 25
  11:30 AM – 12:00 PM