Neil D.
Grimes

Neil D. Grimes is a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information in the Department of Library and Information Science. He earned his B.A. in History from King’s College in 2005 and his M.L.S. from Clarion University in 2006. Later, Grimes earned his second master’s in Education with a Pennsylvania certification in Instructional Technology in 2012 from Wilkes University.

He spent 13 years working in various roles in an urban school district in northeastern Pennsylvania as a certified K-12 school library media specialist, an elementary STEM teacher, and a middle school/high school social studies teacher. Grimes currently works as the Education & Curriculum Materials Librarian at William Paterson University in northern New Jersey. He works with faculty and students in the Department of Teacher Education Pre-K-12 and the Department of Educational Leadership. His research interests, publications, and conference presentations focus on libraries, equity issues in libraries and K-12, literacy, male mentorship, school-academic library partnerships, college and career readiness, microcredentials, professional development, information literacy, educational technologies in the Pre-K-12 environment, school librarianship, virtual professional development, how libraries address mental health and wellness, and how libraries address the digital divide through digital equity.

He currently serves on ALA’s EBSS Curriculum Materials Center Committee, as an Associate on ALA’s Committee on Education, and recently served as co-chair of NJLA’s Professional Development Committee in addition to serving on other national, state, and institutional committees. In addition to his scholarship and service, he has co-taught a section of the Honors Research Seminar since 2021 at William Paterson University centered teaching freshmen research skills around issues of equity in the Pre-K-12 environment.