Sue McKerracher is a library specialist with The Library Agency, she has worked with the British Library and Museums, Libraries and Archives Council in England. Now based in Victoria, she has been involved with several ALIA public library initiatives in 2009, including the Public Libraries Summit and the creation of a national vision and framework for public libraries. She has carried out projects for the Centre for Youth Literature and produced a report on teenage literacy for the State Library of Victoria entitled Keeping Young Australians Reading. The Library Agency are Project Managers for the National Year of Reading 2012.
Sue McKerracher outlines the background and reasons for the National Year of Reading program for 2012 and encourages school libraries to seek out ways they can be involved.