Carrie Scott Banks

Carrie Scott Banks has been in charge of Brooklyn Public Library’s Inclusive Services since 1997 and taught Including Youth with Disabilities at Pratt Institute from 2013 to 2015. In 2012 she was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker. Active in ALA, ASGCLA, and ALSC since 2000, she was the 2020 President of ASGCLA and has served most recently on the Ad Hoc Committee to Revise Correctional Library Standards in 2024. In 2014, she substantially revised Including Families of Children with Special Needs: A How to Do It Manual for Librarians. Libraries and Garden: Growing Together (written with Cynthia Mediavilla) was published in 2019 and Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline: An Action Guide for Libraries (written with Jill Anderson) was published in 2026.