Marshall Breeding is the Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University. In his position at the Vanderbilt, he has varied responsibilities related to the strategic use of technology in the library system. He is a member of the Strategy and Planning Council, the Digital Library Steering Committee, and the Metadata Committee.
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive reports to Breeding, who designed and developed much of the technology used by the Archive. This includes the database of news abstracts, the e-commerce system for placing requests for videotape loans, and large-scale digital recording system for capturing news broadcasts.
Breeding maintains lib-web-cats and Library Technology Guides Web sites. His "Systems Librarian" column appears monthly in Computers in Libraries and he is a Contributing Editor for Smart Libraries Newsletter.
Denise Davis is the Director, Office for Research & Statistics, American Library Association. In this position she provides leadership and expert advice to ALA staff members and the public on all matters related to research and statistics about libraries and librarians. Davis represents the Association to federal agencies on these issues as well, and initiates projects needed to expand the knowledge base of the field through research and the collection of useful statistics. She also coordinates with agencies that collect statistics, such as the National Center for Education Statistics and Association of Research Libraries. In addition, she conducts research for ALA, monitoring research related to libraries and librarians.
Davis worked in academic, special and public libraries for 20 years. From 1999 to now, she has worked in administration -- NCLIS, Oregon State Library, and the American Library Association. She has taught as an adjunct with the LIS programs at the Catholic University of America and Syracuse University, and has served as a consultant on a variety of IMLS funded demonstration projects and research activities with the National Center for Education Statistics.
Peter Shepherd has gained experience in all aspects of STM journal over his 25-year career, initially with Wiley and subsequently with Elsevier and Harcourt. During that time he has launched a wide range of products, and has been actively involved in the development of new online publishing models. Shepherd is now an independent publishing consultant. Since 2002 he has been Project Director of COUNTER, the international initiative to improve the reliability of online usage statistics. Shepherd received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1978 from St Andrews University in Scotland and joined the publishing industry in 1980, following a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Under his nom de plume, Tom Angus, he also writes fiction and in 2005 published a satirical novel based in the STM publishing world, Let Them Eat Cake (2005).
Tim Jewell is Director of Information Resources, Collections and Scholarly Communication with the University of Washington Libraries, where he has worked since 1983. He has been responsible for coordination of electronic resources there for more than 10 years, and has been active in several consortia. In 2001, he and Adam Chandler created the "Web Hub for Developing Administrative Metadata for Electronic Resource Management," and soon after that began coordinating the DLF's highly successful Electronic Resource Management Initiative. He is now coordinating phase 2 of that project, and is a member of the related SUSHI Steering Group.
Kristen Fisher Ratan joined HighWire Press-Stanford in 2005 as Product Manager and is responsible for facilitating new product development and partnership initiatives. With a 10 year history in the information industry, Kristen has held positions at Atypon Systems, DoubleTwist and BIOSIS in marketing and product development. Kristen has a background in Neuroscience research, receiving a Masters in Biomedical Science from Mount Sinai Medical School and a Bachelors degree from the University of Chicago.
Jason S. Price earned a B.A. in Biology and Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara (1993), and a Ph.D. in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (2003) and Masters in Library Science (2003) from Indiana University. While working on these degrees, he held more than a dozen teaching assistantships and taught and/or developed courses on agricultural biotechnology and the ecology and evolution of insects, both of which emphasized critical thinking and information literacy. His library and information science research interests include: (1) Usage statistics in e-journal collection management and consortial pricing and (2) Open Access to e-journal content and its effects on article impact. Jason still sporadically finds time to be involved in research in ecology and evolution through Claremont Colleges faculty and as a Research Associate at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.
Adam Chandler is Information Technology Librarian in the Library Technical Services department of the Cornell University Library, where his responsibilities include creation of new automated technical services processes, participation in library-wide technology initiatives, and management of the department's computers. For the last several years he has served on the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI) Steering Group. He is co-chair for the NISO SUSHI.
Oliver Pesch oversees the technical direction for EBSCO's Electronic Journals Service (EJS), A-to-Z and LinkSource products in his role as chief strategist for E-Resources. His various standards committee memberships include the NISO committee on Library Statistics; Project COUNTER's Executive Committee; he is co-chair of the SUSHI working group \and he currently serves on NISO's board of directors. Oliver has been developing information products for EBSCO for nearly 20 years and has a broad understanding of the needs of the library community. In his current role he is very much involved with e-journals and the challenges they bring for activation, access and management.
Ted Koppel is Verde Product Manager for Ex Libris, which builds on his significant product management and related experience in the library and information marketplace. His prior experience includes working at the CARL Corporation, OCLC and Senior Product Manager for Standards Implementation at The Library Corporation (TLC), where he represented TLC on numerous industry standards committees. A consistent role that Ted has had throughout his career is active participation in standards committees. Currently, he is a member of four standards committees in the ERM and resource sharing areas. He holds a Bachelors degree in languages from Georgetown with a minor in Arabic. He also has an MSLS from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Tina Feick is Vice President-Customer Relations at Swets Information Services, one of the world's leading subscription services company, connecting the supply and demand chain that exists between content providers and institutions. With a Masters in Librarianship from the University of Denver, Tina was the Head of Serials at the Free Library of Philadelphia and later at Princeton University. In 1984, she joined Blackwell's Periodicals Division which has since merged into Swets Information Services. As a Chair of SISAC (Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee), Tina played a major role in developing EDI transaction sets for the serials industry. For her EDI standards work, she was awarded the 1994 Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award by the American Library Association. In 2005, Tina received the first NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group) Championship Award for her participation in founding NASIG including being the second and third president of NASIG and for her overall contribution to the serials industry.
Herbert Van de Sompel's innovations in the library world began when he became head of library automation at Ghent University in 1981. Over the course of 17 years, he built a world-class library automation environment. At this point, he focused increasingly on the issue of access to digital information. While pursuing his Ph.D., he came to the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the first time. He worked simultaneously on two topics: context-sensiti and dynamic linking of scholarly information resources. This work also led to the commercialization of the SFX software that was created during his research, to the process of standardizing OpenURL with NISO, and to the emerging adoption of open linking in the scholarly information industry. He co-founded the Open Archives in 1999. After a stint as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell, he went on to be the first Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at The British Library, and then returned to Los Alamos, where he is now in Digital Library Research and Prototyping.
Leslie Johnston is the Head of Digital Access Services at the University of Virginia Library, where she manages digital library program components supporting the collection, management, and delivery of digital content. Previously, she served as the Head of Instructional Technology and Library Information Systems at the Harvard Design School, as the Academic Technology Specialist for Art for the Stanford University Libraries, and as Database Specialist for the Getty Research Institute. Ms. Johnston has also been active in the museum automation community, working for various museums, teaching courses on museum systems, editing the journal Spectra, and serving on the board of the Museum Computer Network.
Peter McCracken, MLS, is co-founder and director of electronic content management at Serials Solutions. Prior to co-founding Serials Solutions, he worked as a Reference and Instructional Librarian and Coordinator of Collection Development at the University of Washington's Odegaard Undergraduate Library. He also served as a Reference Librarian, with rank of Assistant Professor, at East Carolina University. He has authored "A Comparison of Print and Electronic Journal Holdings in Academic and Public Libraries," Libri 53 no. 4 (2003): 237-241, and contributed to publications in the area of serials management and reference librarianship. McCracken holds a M.S. in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in Maritime History from East Carolina University.
Karen Coyle is a librarian and a consultant in the area of digital libraries. She worked for over 20 years at the University of California in the California Digital Library, has served on library and information standards committees, and has written frequently on technical topics ranging from metadata development, technology management, system design, and on policy areas such as copyright and privacy. Karen write the "Managing Technology" column for the Journal of Academic Librarianship. She is considered an expert on metadata, rights, and rights metadata.
Nathan D.M. Robertson joined the Thurgood Marshall Law Library in July of 2005. As the Electronic Resources Librarian, he manages the library's subscriptions to databases and electronic journals. Robertson is active in the international electronic resource management and standards development community. He is a member of the Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resource Management Steering Group, and a co-author of the 2004 DLF ERMI report. He chairs the Coverage subgroup of the NISO/EDItEUR Joint Working Party for the Exchange of Serials Subscription Information, and co-chairs the DLF/NISO/EDItEUR/PLS License Exchange Working Group. Robertson is also active in the Library & Information Technology Association; he is a member of the Top Technology Trends committee and a former chair of the Standards Interest Group. Prior to coming to the Marshall Library, Robertson was a Database Analyst/Programmer for the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University, where he was a co-developer and administrator of the open-source Hopkins Electronic Resource Management System (HERMES).
Sylvia Bonadio is currently Senior Licensing Manager, Library Relations at Springer. She manages thelicensing groupfor academic accounts in the Americas. She joined Springer as a licensing manager with Kluwer Academic Publishing in 2003, working with academic accounts and consortia in the southern part of the United States, and eastern Canada. Prior to joining Springer, Sylvia worked as a field representative selling college textbooks in New England for 11 years for John C Wiley and Sons, McGraw-Hill, and Prentice-Hall. She holds a BA degree in Economics from Russell Sage College, and a Master's in Business Administration from University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Michael A. Teets was named OCLC's Vice President, Global Product Architecture, in July 2005. He was formerly Executive Director, Product Architecture and Development. From 1999 to 2003, Mike was Director, Cooperative Discovery Services Development Division. He was Director, Reference Services Development from 1994 to 1999 and was Manager, Online Systems from 1993 to 1994. From 1991 to 1993, he was Manager, Online Reference Support (infrastructure), and was Manager, Data Management from 1989 to 1991. Mike started his work at OCLC in 1986 as a research assistant following his graduation from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Science, Information Systems, Engineering College.
Candy Zemon has spent the majority of her career in the library vendor world in various capacities orbiting around product design and standards development. She is currently serving Polaris Library Systems as Senior Product Strategist, a role that includes heavy participation in standards-related activities. She currently chairs the NISO NCIP-IG and the JWP SRN group, co-chaired the NISO Web Services and Practices Working Group, and was an active participant in the VIEWS Initiative. She believes that technology is one of many tools available to solve problems libraries face and feels that standards usually present the most efficient way to encourage interoperation between applications. Zemon received her AMLS from the University of Michigan.
Tim Bucknall is the Assistant Director for Electronic Resources and Information Technologies at the University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. One of the inventors of Journal Finder, the first OpenURL link resolver to go into production in the U.S., he is the founder and convener of the Carolina Consortium, a group of more than100 libraries that saved about 70 million dollars last year through the power of joint purchasing. Bucknall was awarded the North Carolina Library Association's Significant Achievement Award in 2001 and was named a ÒMover and ShakerÓ by Library Journal in 2006. He has an MLS and an M.A. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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