Ashley Hawkins is the campus librarian at the Samuel J Tilden Educational Complex in Brooklyn, NY. Ashley has a BS in English Language Arts Education from UCF, and an MA in English Literature from the Bread Loaf School of English as well as an MSLIS from Pratt Institute. Currently, she runs the blog and YouTube channel Manga Librarian, which serves to provide collection development support to school and public librarians wishing to expand their knowledge of manga and anime, as well as serving as a Knowledge Quest blogger. She also runs the Animation & Illustration Collection for the New York City School Library System’s Cooperative Collection Development Initiative.