About me
Soline Holmes (She/Her/Hers) is a librarian and the Information Services Department Chair at Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the current President of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians, the incoming First VP for the Louisiana Library Association, and a member of ALSC's Public Awareness and Advocacy committee. She is also a Teaching with Primary Sources Network mentor for the Library of Congress and sits on the Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award committee for K-2. Soline was recently named the 2026 Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellow. Previously, Soline served as the Secretary (and a Member at Large) for ALA's Graphic Novels and Comics Roundtable, co-chaired ALSC's "Children and Libraries" Editorial Advisory Committee, and chaired USBBY's Nominating Committee for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She has given presentations on graphic novels, the First Amendment and censorship, maps, Primary Sources, Global Education, and Mother Goose and STEM at local and national conferences. Soline co-authored an article about graphic novels as informational texts for "Children and Libraries" and a chapter in ALA's "Mental Health and Children's Literature: Evaluating, Curating, and Sharing Books with Children." Soline is the proud recipient of a 2019 Judith F. Krug Banned Books Week grant for her school library, was honored to participate in ALSC's Bill Morris seminar, and was a member of the second cohort for Online Ready: Designing Culturally Competent and Impactful K-12 Online Learning sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. She is also an avid rower and the President of the New Orleans Rowing Club.
