[San Francisco] Bay Area Young Adult Librarians is an a 501 C – 3 Literary Nonprofit for teen services professionals working in public and school libraries.
We provide continuing education, networking, and professional support for librarians throughout California.
2026 BAYA Board of Directors
Megan Maloy (she/her) – Chairperson
Megan Maloy is the Senior Librarian of Youth Services, overseeing TeenHQ and the San José Youth Commission at San José Public Library. She has worked on youth civic engagement with SJ Engage, maintained a diverse collection of young adult titles for 25 branches, leads Mock Printz training for library staff, and created the YA Friday blog series. She is the 2023 California Library Association Young Adult Services Award recipient. When not in a Youth Commission meeting, you can find her drinking iced coffee, matching books to Taylor Swift songs, and collecting more stamps in her National Parks Passport.
Lindsey Timpone – Vice-Chairperson
Lindsey Timpone is the Head Librarian at Archbishop Mitty High School. In collaboration with faculty, she teaches information literacy across campus for both in-class and extracurricular student work. She also manages the library’s print and digital collection including both nonfiction and fiction books, graphic novels, manga, and research databases. Outside of the library, Lindsey is usually reading history books or royal jewelry blogs.
Erik Berman (he/him) – Director of Records
Erik Berman is the Teen Services Coordinator for the Alameda County Library system, 2021 CLA Member of the Year, and a 2017 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. Erik has focused his efforts on increasing teen involvement and participation through the development of teen programming and the creation of creative spaces for teens. Notable projects include the construction of the San José Public Library’s TeenHQ, a teen-designed and constructed teen center and makerspace; Archimedes, a teen-designed makerspace in the Fremont Library; and Census and Sensibility, a State Library-sponsored guide to preparing libraries for the 2020 Census. In those rare instances when he isn’t working, Erik can be found reading prodigious amounts of manga and trying not to start any more fires while cooking.
Jessica Lundin (she/her) – Chief Financial Officer & Acting Director of Correspondence
Jessica Lundin is a Teen Librarian with San José Public Library’s TeenHQ at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library. She has worked with San José Public Library since 2016 and has worked with teens the entire time. She offers 3D printing, laser cut projects, poster printing, and other MakerSpace programs for teens. She also selects for YA Nonfiction and YA Graphic Novels for the system.
Bay Area Young Adult Librarians 