The Audrey Geisel University Librarian,
University of California, San Diego

Brian is the Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Governors of the HathiTrust. He is also a member of the Boards of Trustees of ArchivesSpace, the Digital Preservation Network, and OCLC, and serves as an elected member of the governing Council of the American Library Association.

Department of English,
University of Virginia

Andrew is an associate professor of English, the Director of NINES (http://nines.org), and a member of the faculty of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge UP, 2005) and numerous articles on nineteenth-century British literature. He is currently working on a book entitled, Postcard from the Volcano: The Troubled Archive of Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Proprietor,
Musinsky Rare Books, New York

Nina is the proprietor of Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. which handles 15th- to early 19th-century Western European printed books and manuscripts in the humanities. Nina is currently Chair of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the ABAA and serves on the Council of the Bibliographical Society of America.

Director, Harry Ransom Center,
University of Texas at Austin

Steve is Director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.  He previously served as Eric Weinmann Librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library and, before that, Director of Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.

Director of Special Collections,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Michelle has been at UNLV Libraries since March of 2013. Prior, she was Head of Special Collections, Archives, and Digital Scholarship at University of California, Irvine. Michelle is an active member of the Society of American Archivists and has held numerous roles therein most recently being elected to the SAA Council.

Founder and Director, Image Permanence Institute,
Rochester Institute of Technology

Under Jim’s leadership, IPI has made important contributions to image preservation, management of film archives, environmental monitoring and control, and sustainable preservation practice.

Content Director,
Digital Public Library of America

Emily is the Director for Content of the Digital Public Library of America. In this role, Emily oversees the Digital Hubs Pilot Project and provides vision and oversight for content in the DPLA. Emily has been the recipient of over $5 million of grant funding during the course of her career. She has a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama, a BA in English/Technical Writing from Clemson University and is a 2011 graduate of the Frye Leadership Institute.

Associate Professor, School of Media Studies,
The New School

Shannon’s research and teaching address the forms and materialities of media and the spaces (architectural, urban, conceptual) they create and inhabit. She’s written about archives, libraries, and other media-architectures; media infrastructures; place branding; public design projects; multisensoriality; and media exhibition. She’s the author of The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities (Minnesota 2007). You can find her at wordsinspace.net.