Here's one for the books: High Bridge Elementary School media specialist Michele Forney has been named president of the Maryland Association for School Librarians.

Forney, who has been involved with the MASL for the past couple of years, will head the organization which has nearly 500 school librarians across the state as members.

Forney, who has been High Bridge's librarian since 2004, has also served three years on the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan fourth- through sixth-grade book...