2026 MLA|DLA Annual Conference

Melissa Anne King  (she/her) is “The Creative Librarian”, an elementary school librarian in Montgomery County Public Schools. She is an active member of the Maryland Association of School Librarians (MASL) and the Montgomery County Educational Media Staff Association (MCEMSA).  She serves on the Gaithersburg Book Festival planning committee and on the Friends of the Library, Montgomery County (FOLMC) Board of Trustees. She is a member of the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) and recently achieved her Environmental Educator certification. She is the first Maryland school librarian to achieve the Sustainable Libraries Initiative Certification. She is recently remarried and is the proud mom of four adult children, a beautiful granddaughter,  a talkative cat, and two fluffy dogs.  She graduated from the University of Southern Maine in 1988 with a BS in Business Administration and from the University of Maryland’s iSchool in 2012 with a Master of Library Science degree and certification in K-12 School Library Media and concentration in Information for Diverse Populations.