DR. SANDRA HIRSH is director and professor of the School of Information at San José State University. She is a past-president of ASIS&T and is the president-elect of ALISE. Her research interests include information seeking behavior, online education, and LIS education, and she was the co-PI of the IMLS-funded blockchain investigation. Hirsh cofounded and cochairs the global virtual Library 2.0 conference series.
DR. SUSAN ALMAN is a member of the San José State University School of Information faculty. Prior to this appointment, she taught at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences and the University of Michigan. She was the co-PI in the IMLS-funded project, Investigation of Possible Uses of Blockchain Technology. Alman’s areas of interest are in online teaching and learning, foresight studies and emerging technologies, marketing/PR, and interpersonal communication.