Rebecca Antill is the Youth Services Consultant in the Library Development department of the South Carolina State Library. She received her Master’s in Library and Information Science from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and has been working or volunteering in libraries since the age of eleven. Rebecca has worked in public libraries of all sizes in Ohio, North Carolina, and South Carolina. She has worked as the Youth Services Consultant for the SC State Library for three years, and in that time has made partnerships between schools and public libraries a priority. Rebecca works on projects including early literacy workshops, universal student library cards, the statewide food literacy initiative Read Eat Grow, and community wide collaborations among informal learning organizations.