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Marta has freelanced for Library Journal since 2010 and School Library Journal since 2012. She focuses on exploring the relationships and partnerships between libraries and the communities they serve, the impact of architectural design on library service and literacy initiatives. 

  • Pilot Outreach Program Helps Reach Youth in Low-Income Families, feature story cowritten with Danielle Dreger-Babbitt, VOYA Magazine, print, June 2018
  • Life + Library | Innovation, news feature story, Library Journal, May 2017, posted online June 13, 2017
  • Community Central, news feature story, Library Journal's Library by Design May 2016, posted online June 17, 2016
  • King County Big Reads Builds Bridges, news feature story, Library Journal, posted online June 19, 2015 
  • MakerBridge Site and Blog Show Diversity in Maker Movement, short feature, School Library Journal's The Maker Issue, cowritten with Sarah Bayliss, posted online June 17, 2015
  • The Comeback Kids, cover story, Library Journal's Library by Design September 2014, online Sept. 29, 2014
  • Embracing Austin, Inside and Out, feature story, Library Journal's Library by Design September 2013, online Oct. 25, 2013
  • Growing Room: St. Louis Public Library’s Grand Central Renovation, cover story, Library Journal's Library by Design, May 2013 supplement, online June 7, 2013
  • Follow the Leaders: Washington State’s Stellar Advocacy Model, cover story, School Library Journal, online Oct. 7, 2013
  • Update: Michigan School District Rejects Parent’s Challenge to Anne Frank’s Diary, School Library Journal, May 13, 2013.
  • Partners in Success: When school and public librarians join forces, kids win, cover story, School Library Journal, online Jan. 1, 2013
  • Customized User Design: Designing to fit your community needs, cover story, Library Journal's Library By Design Fall 2012 supplement, online September 18, 2012
  • Powerful Partnerships, cover story, Library Journal's Library By Design May 2012 supplement, online May 15, 2012
  • Better together, cover story Library Journal, May 15, 2012, print only

Movers & Shakers:  Marta has written profiles on more than 85 library professionals for Library Journal from 2011 to present, giving her a unique perspective on the profession's best practices.
  • Movers & Shakers, 2022, four profiles, forthcoming May 2022.
  • Movers & Shakers, 2021, five profiles, Nini Beegan, Todd Deck, Dustin Hensley, Kelly Passek and Lindsey Vien.
    Movers & Shakers 2020, nine profiles, Dorothy Berry, Ron Block, Will Cross, Shauna Edson, Nancy Liliana Godoy, Lesley Mason, J. Caroline Smith,  María Fernanda Pardo, and Pang Yang.
  • Movers & Shakers 2019, six profiles Marisa Méndez-Brady, Gwen Evans and Amy Pawlowski, Mega Subramanian, Azusa Tanaka, Erica Titkemeyer, and Becky Yoose.
  • Movers & Shakers 2018, five profiles, March 2018, Robin Bradford, Kiara Garrett, Erin Hoopes, Roberta McCorkindale & Julie Syler, and Nathaniel Rasmussen.
  • Movers & Shakers 2017, five profiles, March 2017, RB Burnette & Anthony Propernick, Sarah LeMire, Ann Schoenenberger, Mara Thacker, and Sandy Tharp-Thee
  • Movers & Shakers 2016, five profiles, March 2016, Erin Berman, Jason Evans Groth, Ashley Maynor, Quintin Jose V. Pastrana, and Lauren  Reiter
    Movers & Shakers 2015, seven profiles, March 2015, Jasmine Africawala, Adam Feldman & Perry Genovesi, Sharona Ginsberg, Alison Macrina, T-Kay Sangwand and Oli Sanidas
  • Movers & Shakers 2014, five profiles, March 10, 2014, Kristi Chadwick, Myron Groover, Justine Hernandez, Alicia Virtue, and Madeline Walton-Hadlock
  • Movers & Shakers 2013, fifteen profiles, March 15, 2013, including Audrey Barbakoff, Kenn Bicknell, Galen Charlton, Jennifer Hoffman, Amber Hunt, Dalia Levine, Richard Lyda, Jason Paul Michel, Timothy Quinn, Haripriya (Priya) Rathnam, Matthew Reidsma, Jane Secker, Hannah Sommers, Kate Tcacik, and Lindsey Tomsu
  • Movers & Shakers 2012, fifteen profiles, March 13, 2012,  Khaleef Aye, Trinity Behrends, Jim Blanton, Brett Bonfield, Michele Burke, Samantha Chada, Michelle Chronister, Andrew Coulon & Matthew Moyer, Joshua Finnell, Stephen X Flynn, Nate Hill, Jenny Lynne Semenza, Jordana Vincent, and Leah White
  • Movers & Shakers 2011, eleven profiles, March 15, 2011, Joanna Axelrod, Jason Casden, Tracy Crawford, Rosalind Lett, Bill Pardue, Eli Neiburger, Sue Polanka, Michael Santangelo, Cindi Trainor, Jennifer Wright, and Courtney Young

Booklists and book reviews:  Find Marta's professional booklists in Bibliocommons, and book reviews at Goodreads or the outdated site created for grad school Murvosh Reads and in OYAN (Oregon Young Adult Network) Review, Leanne Lieberman’s Gravity, Spring 2011, 

Newspaper clips: 
While Marta worked as a full-time journalist,
she won a number of awards for coverage of the environment and social issues, including coverage of crime stories, floods, homelessness and endangered species. Many of her stories were picked up by The Associated Press in both Utah and Washington to be used as statewide or regional features. A sample of AP Evergreen Exchange features were published in the Seattle Times can be found here:
  • Communities celebrate Day of Dead, November 2, 2009
  • Anacortes business thrives after couple cuts hours, Wednesday, February 4, 2009
  • Volunteers help bring Puget Sound's coastal prairies back to life, November 27, 2007

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