Katie Day

Katie Day is an international school teacher-librarian in Singapore, where she is Head of Senior Library at Tanglin Trust School, a British international school offering both the IB Diploma and UK A-levels.  She has experience with three IB programmes (PYP, MYP, and DP), having previously worked at United World College of Southeast Asia (UWCSEA) in Singapore and NIST International School in Bangkok.  An American expatriate for over 40 years, she has an undergraduate degree in Russian civilization, a master’s degree in children’s literature from the UK, and teaching and master of library and information science degrees via Australia. She has been heavily involved with international school librarian networks in the countries where she has worked, especially regarding their book awards, e.g., the Red Dot Book Awards of the Singapore International School Librarian Network (ISLN) and the Siam Book Awards for the Bangkok/Thailand network.  In addition, she is a founding jury member of the Neev Book Award in India, and has served as the chair of the GLLI Translated YA Book Prize and is now on the board of the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI).