Over the past thirty years Liz has worked as a teacher and teacher librarian in New South Wales and Queensland across all ages, and as Young People’s Librarian in a large public library. She has authored and taught children’s literature courses for undergraduate and postgraduate university study and was the Queensland judge for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards in 2007 and 2008. While Head of Library and Information Services at Toowoomba Grammar School, Liz took part in the International Boys’ School Coalition’s (IBSC) action research project Boys and Stories: Pathways to Learning. Her research topic asked “How can engagement with a diverse range of stories develop adventurous readers?” and culminated in a presentation at the IBSC conference in Montreal, Canada in 2019. Awarded the QSLA Teacher-Librarian of the Year Award in the same year, Liz is now a lecturer in Teacher Librarianship at Charles Sturt University.