It takes a village to keep a website going.
Here are some of the people and organizations that have helped propel K12IRC over the years.
Pamela “Pam” Choate
An educator for 35 years, both in K-12 and higher education.
Pam has been our “head librarian” since April, 2022, and took over complete responsibility for the website in July, 2025.
Chris Daley
Chris Daley, owner of Lodestone Systems, has been the webmaster for K12IRC.org since 1999. He’s created the custom programing needed for the website over the years and helps maintain the collection.
Dr. Bonnie Tenenbaum
Dr. Tenenbaum was instrumental in the creation of the library and continued to curate content and provide guidance right up until her passing in October, 2020. She is greatly missed.
You can learn more about Bonnie here.
The Bonnie & Marty Tenenbaum Foundation
The Bonnie & Marty Tenenbaum Foundation — and Marty Tenenbaum in particular — provided continuing support for K12IRC for many years.
Richard “Rick” Loek
Richard “Rick” Loek provided the initial programming support when Dr. Tenenbaum first adopted the site after it lost it’s NSF funding.
Cinthia Schmidt
Cinthia Schmidt was instrumental in an earlier “makeover” of Alice, our site mascot.
Jason Grotte
Jason Grotte created a great set of icons that were used in an earlier version of this site.
Joaquin Mariscales
Joaquin Mariscales contributed additional artwork and layout ideas for the site.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
TERC
The Virtual Public Library – Instructional Media Center (as we were originally know) was developed in part under the auspices of the National Science Foundation through a contract to TERC (formerly the Technical Education Research Centers) in Cambridge, MA, with a subcontract to CommerceNet.
No endorsement of the contents of the current website by NSF or TERC is implied.
CommerceNet
CommerceNet did much of the original work to create the web site, and donated web hosting for the website thru May, 2000.