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Sayeed Choudhury Associate Dean of University Libraries and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center Johns Hopkins University Sayeed Choudhury serves as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Mellon Foundation. He has oversight for the digital library activities and services provided by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. He has published articles in the International Journal of Digital Curation, D-Lib, the Journal of Digital Information, and First Monday. He has served on committees for the Digital Curation Conference, Open Repositories, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and Web-Wise, and has presented at various conferences including ARL, EDUCAUSE, CNI, DLF, ALA, and ACRL. G. Wayne Clough 12th Secretary Smithsonian Institution G. Wayne Clough is the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, leading the world’s largest museum and research complex with 19 museums, nine research centers, the National Zoo, and research activities in more than 90 countries. Since his arrival at the Smithsonian in July 2008, he has initiated long-range planning for the institution that will define the Smithsonian’s focus for the future. He envisions a new era for the 162-year-old institution, expanding the Smithsonian’s global relevance and helping the nation shape its future through research, education, and scientific discovery on major topics of the day. Before his appointment to the Smithsonian, Clough served as president of the Georgia Institute of Technology for 14 years. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Georgia Tech in 1964 and 1965 and a doctorate in 1969 in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a professor at Duke University, Stanford University, and Virginia Tech. He served as head of the department of civil engineering and dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, and as provost at the University of Washington. Jacqueline Goldsby Jacqueline Goldsby specializes in late-19th and early-20th century American and African American literature. She is the author of the award-winning book Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature, a work that considers literary representations of lynching in fiction, poetry, and photography. Her 20th-century work studies the “cool” aesthetics of post-World War II/pre-Civil Rights Movement black fiction, and why this remarkable literary movement and its signature aesthetics have been neglected in African American literary studies. She has served as director of Mapping the Stacks: A Guide to Black Chicago’s Hidden Archives, a research initiative that was inspired by her work toward Birth of the Cool. In partnership with the University of Chicago’s Special Collections Research Center, Mapping the Stacks’ work has been underway since 2006 and will continue through to December 2009. She was awarded a PhD from Yale University in 1998 and began teaching at the University of Chicago in 2000. She currently serves as visiting Associate Professor at NYU. Joshua M. Greenberg Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship New York Public Library Joshua M. Greenberg is the New York Public Library’s Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship and charged with overseeing NYPL’s Digital Experience Group, which is staffed with technical practitioners as well as traditionally trained librarians with a variety of experience or expertise in digital media. Dr. Greenberg, who joined the Library in 2007, was formerly the Associate Director, Research Projects, of George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media, where alongside other work he co-directed the Zotero project. He has broad experience and understanding of both the content and research needs of scholars as well as new technology-based information services and products that can support scholars and other researchers. He holds a PhD in science and technology studies from Cornell University, maintains research interests in the history and sociology of information technology and media studies, and is the author of From Betamax to Blockbuster (MIT, 2008). Mark A. Greene Director of the American Heritage Center University of Wyoming Mark A. Greene is director of the American Heritage Center (AHC), University of Wyoming. The AHC is a 75,000-cubic-foot manuscript repository, university archives, and rare book library, and administers a host of programs, including Wyoming History Day. Prior to coming to the AHC, Mark was Head of Research Center Programs at the Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan (formerly Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village) where he oversaw the library, archives, museum cataloging, and digitization. He previously served as the curator of manuscripts acquisition at the Minnesota Historical Society and as archivist for Carleton College. He received his education as an archivist from the University of Michigan, as part of his MA in US history. Greene has published widely on the topics of appraisal and collection development, reappraisal and deaccessioning, business records, congressional collections, privacy in personal papers, the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act, using university archives as instructional material, working with under-represented communities, the tension between context and content in archival theory, the relevance of postmodernism to practicing archivists, collecting and preserving Web sites, and archival values. With Dennis Meissner he wrote the influential article “More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archival Processing” now known as MPLP. He is an active member of the Society of American Archivists, having served on SAA Council and as SAA President, and was elected an SAA Fellow. Kenneth Hamma Ken Hamma was Executive Director for Digital Policy and Initiatives at the J. Paul Getty Trust until 2008. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor of Greek and Roman archaeology at the University of Southern California and Associate Director of the Princeton Archaeological Expedition to Marion, Cyprus. He has published on Greek and Roman art, on classical theater production, and on policy issues and resource discovery for cultural heritage online. He has served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a member of the RLG Programs Council of OCLC, and a director of the Museum Domain Management Association, the sponsor of the museum Internet TLD. He has also served as a member of the Joint Committee on Archives, Libraries, and Museums sponsored by the SAA, ALA and AAM, a board member for the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), a board member for the Consortium for the Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI), a board member for the National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), and a member of the At Large Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He holds advanced degrees from Stanford and Princeton. Lorraine J. Haricombe Dean of Libraries University of Kansas Lorraine Haricombe is Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas (KU), a division of Information Services. Less than a year after her arrival at KU, in July 2007, she launched a new program, Scholar Services, to build stronger partnerships between librarians, IT professionals, and researchers with a focus on digital scholarship. The Scholar Services program helps researchers and faculty streamline the production, packaging, and dissemination of data and digital content. She obtained her master's degree and her PhD in library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Fred Heath Vice Provost and Director University of Texas Libraries Fred Heath is Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries, a position he has held since 2003. He has served in similar capacities at Texas A&M University, Texas Christian University, and the University of North Alabama during his career of over 30 years in academic librarianship. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). He has also served as President of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), a member of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Steering Committee, and chair of the Texas Council of State University Librarians (TCSUL). He holds advanced degrees from the University of Virginia, Florida State University, and Virginia Tech. He makes frequent presentations and publishes in the areas of digital library trends, evolving user needs, and service quality issues. He is a co-developer of the widely employed service quality assessment tool, LibQUAL+™. Anne R. Kenney Anne R. Kenney came to Cornell University Library in 1987 and served as Associate Director for the Department of Preservation and Conservation until 2001. During that time, and from 2002 to 2006 as Associate University Librarian for Instruction, Research, and Information Services, she helped spearhead a period of change and growth that has made Cornell Library a pioneer in digitization, network access, and preservation. She served as Interim University Librarian from February 2007 until her appointment as University Librarian in April 2008. She is known internationally for her pioneering work in developing standards for digitizing library materials that have been adopted by organizations around the world, including such important archives as JSTOR, the Scholarly Journal Archive. Active in the archival and preservation communities, she is a fellow and past president of the Society of American Archivists. She currently serves on the Social Science Research Council’s Committee on Libraries and Archives of Cuba and is a member of Advisory Committee of Portico, a nonprofit digital preservation service. She received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University, a master’s degree in history from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and a master’s degree in library science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Wendy Pradt Lougee University Librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor University of Minnesota Wendy Lougee came to her current position at the University of Minnesota in 2002. Well known for her pioneering contributions to the design and development of digital libraries, she is a frequent speaker and consultant on issues associated with publishing, digital content and tools, and the economics of information. She serves on the executive boards of the Council of Library and Information Resources, the Digital Library Federation, the OCLC/Research Libraries Group Program Council, and chairs the ARL E-Science Working Group. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin (library science) and the University of Minnesota (psychology). Clifford Lynch Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by ARL and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, he spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Currently he serves on the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, Microsoft’s Technical Computing Science Advisory Board, the board of the New Media Consortium, and the Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. He serves as a member of the ARL E-Science Working Group. Andrew McLaughlin Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Internet Policy White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Andrew McLaughlin serves as the Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Internet Policy, for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Prior to joining the White House, he was Head of Global Public Policy and Senior Counsel for Google Inc., and directed the company’s public policy efforts. Previously he served as Vice President, Chief Policy Officer, and Chief Financial Officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a nonprofit group that helps coordinate the Internet’s address system. He is an emeritus fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, and was part of Mr. Obama’s transition team as a member of the Technology, Innovation and Government Reform Policy Working Group. His undergraduate degree is from Yale University, where he majored in history, and his law degree is from Harvard Law School. After a clerkship for Judge Gerald Heaney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Andrew started his legal career at Jenner & Block in Washington DC, where he focused on appellate litigation and constitutional law. He was a member of the legal team that challenged the US government’s first Internet censorship law — the Communications Decency Act — generating the Supreme Court’s landmark 1997 free speech ruling for the Internet. From 1997 to 1998, he served as Democratic Counsel to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. William Noel Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books Walters Art Museum William Noel has been Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters Art Museum since 1997. He is the author of The Harley Psalter (1995), an in-depth investigation into the making of an illustrated 11th-century Psalter, The Oxford Bible Pictures (2004), and other studies dealing with medieval manuscripts and their illumination. He has served as Director of Studies in the History of Art at Downing College, Cambridge University, and as Assistant Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Since January 1999, Noel has directed an international program to conserve, image, and study the Archimedes Palimpsest, the unique source for three treatises by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes (http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/). He has co-written with Reviel Netz a popular account of the project entitled The Archimedes Codex (2007). He teaches and lectures widely, including being on the faculty of the Rare Book School, University of Virginia, and as Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University. He received his PhD from Cambridge University. Stephen G. Nichols James M. Beall Professor of French & Humanities and Chair, German & Romance Languages and Literatures Johns Hopkins University Stephen G. Nichols is the James M. Beall Professor of French & Humanities and Chair, German & Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in medieval literature in its relations with history, philosophy, and history of art. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, he is also a Senior Fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory, which he directed from 1995 to 2001. Author, editor, and co-editor of twenty-four books, Nichols conceived and is co-director of a project creating digital surrogates of medieval manuscripts at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins. The project is currently working with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France to ingest more than 130 manuscripts of the Romance of the Rose to complement those already on the site. He has lectured and written on digital scholarship in the Humanities, e.g., “From Parchment to Cyberspace,” “Digital Scholarship, What’s all the Fuss?” “‘Born Medieval:’ Manuscripts in the Digital Scriptorium,” “Manuscripts and Digital Surrogates: Sibling or Counterfeit?” and “There’s an Elephant in the Room: Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Prejudice.” He currently serves as Chair of the CLIR Board of Directors. Alice Prochaska University Librarian Yale Alice Prochaska has been University Librarian at Yale since August 2001. She received both her BA and PhD (D.Phil.) in Modern History from the University of Oxford. From 1984 to 1992 she was the administrator and deputy to the director of the University of London’s Institute of Historical Research. In 1992, she became Director of Special Collections at the British Library, with responsibility for the UK national collections of Maps, Manuscripts, Music, the National Sound Archive, the Oriental and India Office Collections, and Philatelic Collections. She has served on various national bodies in the UK and North America. She currently chairs ARL’s Special Collections Working Group, and is immediate past chair of the Board of the Center for Research Libraries. She lectures regularly in North America, the UK, and Europe, and was formerly chair of the International Federation of Library Associations section on Rare Books and Manuscripts. Her publications include books and articles on history, archives, and library-related issues. Last June she announced plans to depart from Yale and take up the position of Principal of Somerville College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Barbara Rockenbach Director for Undergraduate and Library Research Education Yale University Barbara Rockenbach is the Director for Undergraduate and Library Research Education at Yale University. Working closely with librarians, archivists, curators, and others across campus, she coordinates the Library Research Education Program, as well as the collaborative efforts among campus colleagues to offer support to faculty and students in use of technologies, collections, and new pedagogical techniques. Before coming to Yale in 2007, she was the Associate Director for Library Relations at JSTOR and ARTstor. She began her career at Yale as the Kress Fellow for Art Librarianship and worked as the Instructional Services Librarian in the Yale Arts Library for several years. She has a BA in English from the University of Illinois, an MA in Art History from Hunter College, and a Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research areas include information ethics, visual literacy, and the application of innovative pedagogical techniques in research education. Richard Saloman Richard Salomon has earned international recognition for his identification of the earliest surviving Buddhist texts, whose importance for Buddhist culture is comparable to that of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Judaism and early Christianity. He directs the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project, a groundbreaking collaboration between The British Library and the University of Washington dedicated to providing access—in book and digital form—to the unprecedented insights contained in these important texts. Acquired by the British Library in 1994, these fragile birch-bark scrolls were buried in clay pots in ancient Gandhara (now northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan) almost 2,000 years ago. Dr. Salomon earned his PhD in Sanskrit from University of Pennsylvania and has published over 150 books and articles. Roger C. Schonfeld Manager of Research Ithaka S+R Roger C. Schonfeld is the Manager of Research at Ithaka S+R, where he analyzes the impacts that new technologies are having on higher education to help the community respond strategically. His recent work has focused on the transition to an electronic-only environment for scholarly resources, faculty attitudes and research patterns in this emerging environment, and the history and future of preservation and book survivability. He currently serves on the NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. Previously, he was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There, he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press, 2000). He also wrote JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), which examines business models for the shift to an online environment for scholarly texts by focusing on how JSTOR developed into a self-sustaining not-for-profit organization. Bernard Schutz Director Max Planck Institute for Gravitation Physics Bernard Schutz is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, also known as the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI), in Potsdam, Germany. He holds a part-time chair in Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University, Wales, as well as honorary professorships at Potsdam and Hanover universities in Germany. Born and educated in the USA, he taught physics and astronomy for twenty years at Cardiff before moving to Germany. Schutz currently specializes in gravitational wave research, studying the theory of potential sources and designing new methods for analyzing the data from current and planned detectors. In 1998 he founded the open-access online journal Living Reviews in Relativity. Tracy Seneca Web Archiving Services Manager California Digital Library Tracy Seneca is the Web Archiving Services Manager at the California Digital Library, and has been managing the NDIIPP Web-at-Risk grant at CDL since 2005. She has an extensive background in designing and developing Web applications for libraries, including a copyright tracking application for electronic reserves, tools for creating Web-based research instruction, and tools for managing library subject guides. She came to application development for libraries by way of bibliographic instruction but also has experience in collection development and public service. She has presented frequently on issues raised in Web archiving at the Digital Library Federation Forum, the International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly, the American Library Association Annual Conference, and other events. She received an MLIS from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Applied Technology from DePaul University. Sarah L. Shreeves Coordinator for IDEALS University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sarah L. Shreeves is the Coordinator for the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), the institutional repository at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She has been active in the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and Shareable Metadata Best Practices Working Group, a joint initiative between the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and the National Science Digital Library to establish best practices for OAI data provider implementations and metadata interoperability. She also led the DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group to establish a set of guidelines for shareable MODS records. Her last position was as the Project Coordinator for the National Leadership Grant funded IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project (DCC) based at the UIUC. Prior to coming to UIUC, Sarah worked for nine years in the MIT Libraries in Boston. She has a BA in Medieval Studies from Bryn Mawr College, an MA in Children’s Literature from Simmons College, and an MS in Library and Information Science from UIUC. Katherine Skinner Executive Director Educopia Institute Dr. Katherine Skinner is the Executive Director of the Educopia Institute, a not-for-profit educational organization founded in 2006 to act as a catalyst for collaborative approaches to the production and preservation of scholarship. In this capacity, she also serves as the program manager for the MetaArchive Cooperative, a community-based distributed digital preservation network comprised of more than a dozen cultural memory organizations. Previously, Skinner was the Digital Projects Librarian at Emory University and provided leadership for the university's digital projects that are supported through grants or other sponsored funding sources. In this role, she coordinated efforts involving interdisciplinary interest groups from more than three dozen universities worldwide, including faculty members (in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities), information technologists, librarians, curators, and campus administrators. Skinner has been a Co-Principal Investigator on numerous projects, including the CyberInfrastructure for Humanities Project (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), the MetaArchive Project (Library of Congress), and the MetaArchive: A Sustainable Digital Preservation Service project (National Historical Publications and Records Commission). She is a founder and an editorial board member of the peer-reviewed Internet journal, Southern Spaces. She is currently editing The Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (forthcoming 2009), and recently co-edited a monograph entitled Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries with Martin Halbert. Katherine has a Ph.D. from Emory University and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Donald J. Waters Senior Program Officer, Scholarly Communications The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Donald J. Waters is the Senior Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before joining the foundation in 1999, he served as the first Director of the Digital Library Federation (1997–1999), as Associate University Librarian at Yale University (1993–1997), and in a variety of other positions at the Computer Center, the School of Management, and the University Library at Yale. Waters graduated with a bachelor’s degree in American studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1973. In 1982, he received his PhD in anthropology from Yale University. Waters conducted his dissertation research on the political economy of artisanry in Guyana, South America. He has edited a collection of African American folklore from the Hampton Institute in a volume entitled Strange Ways and Sweet Dreams. In 1995–1996, he co-chaired the Task Force of the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group on Archiving of Digital Information, and was the editor and a principal author of the Task Force Report. He was a member of the Section 108 Study Group. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Coalition for Networked Information and the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress. He is also the author of numerous articles and presentations on libraries, digital libraries, digital preservation, and scholarly communications. GladysAnn Wells Director and State Librarian Arizona State Library GladysAnn Wells, Director and State Librarian of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records since 1997, is responsible for statewide collaboration of libraries, archives, public records, and museums. Recognized for excellence in e-government by the Library of Congress and successful in the completion of a premiere State Archives and History preservation, treatment, and access facility, the State Library has raised $61 million for Arizona since her arrival. She came to Arizona from the New York State Library where she held a number of positions including Legislative Reference Librarian, Senate Librarian, and Acting Director. James F. Williams, II Dean of Libraries University of Colorado at Boulder James F. Williams, II, has been Dean of Libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1988. His career includes 13 years as a medical librarian and 18 years in research library administration. His research interests include health sciences librarianship, strategic planning, collection development, leadership in research libraries, and resource sharing and networking. He holds baccalaureate and graduate degrees from Morehouse College and Atlanta University. Ian E. Wilson Chief Library & Archivist Canada Emeritis Ian E. Wilson is the Chief Librarian and Archivist of Canada Emeritus, having retired from that position in April 2009. Named to this role in 2004, he had previously (as of July 1999) been National Archivist of Canada. With Roch Carrier, the then National Librarian, he developed and led the process to link the National Archive and National Library as a unified institution. Since retiring from LAC, he has taken on the role of Strategic Advisor for the University of Waterloo to establish the Stratford Institute. This initiative is devoted to graduate studies and advanced research in digital media. Throughout his distinguished career, he has worked diligently to make archives accessible and interesting to a wide range of audiences. He has helped safeguard the integrity of archival records while at the same time encouraging an active use of them by the public. In addition, he has published extensively on history, archives, heritage, and information management and has lectured both nationally and abroad. He currently serves as President of the International Council on Archives, a professional organization for the world archival community, dedicated to promoting the preservation, development, and use of the world’s archival heritage.