Lynn Whitehouse

Lynn Whitehouse is the supervisor of the History/Information and Interlibrary Loan Sections of the Central Library of the San Diego Public Library and has been involved with adult public programming for the last 11 years and has taught adult programming as an InfoPeople trainer. Lynn was the 2006 recipient of the California Library Association's Award for Excellence as a Public Librarian. Her program "Stories of Faith" won the Marshall Cavendish Excellence in Library Programming Award in 2005 and was nominated for the The Federation of State Humanities Councils' Schwartz Award by the California Council for the Humanities. Lynn is a consultant for the California State Library's Digital Storytelling Grant, a program she created with a LSTA grant.

Ms. Whitehouse continues to be the project director for the San Diego's One Book, One San Diego initiative. The initiative is a partnership with KPBS.

Lynn Whitehouse is on the advisory board of the California History and Social Science Project at the University of California at San Diego. She has received and managed grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, National Video Resources, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Albertson's, Civic Collaborative of UCSD., the Smithsonian Institution, Modern Poetry Association, American Library Association, the California State Library, and the California Council for the Humanities. Lynn has served on a grant review panel for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Programs.