DAWN HALE is the Head of Technical Services at the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, where she is responsible for the library’s acquisitions, cataloging, and e-resources management and access. She served on the Editorial Board of the ALCTS Monographs Series, on the LRTS Editorial Board, the Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award Committee, the ALA Committee on Professional Ethics, the ALA Standards Committee, various LITA scholarship committees, as well as on several OCLC groups.
KARLA L. STRIEB is the Associate Director for Collections, Technical Services, and Scholarly Communication at the Ohio State University Libraries. As part of the senior leadership team, she is responsible for selection, acquisition, and description of content, including special collections materials; preservation and reformatting; and collection access and storage, including circulation, e-reserves, and interlibrary services. She has written and presented widely on issues relating to digital communication, collections, and emerging library roles.
LIZANNE PAYNE is a Planning Consultant supporting development of shared print collections among academic libraries and consortia. She has worked with the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST), Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC), Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). Previously she served as Executive Director of the Washington (DC) Research Library Consortium (WRLC), where she managed development of WRLC’s shared library systems and shared offsite shelving facility.
JACOB NADAL is the Executive Director of ReCAP, a partnership of Columbia University, the New York Public Library, and Princeton University. ReCAP operates the nation’s largest preservation repository and provides access services for its partner’s research collections. He is active in national and international efforts, as an advisor on sustainable strategies for print and digital collections, and as both a teacher and advocate for mid-career development programs and early-career opportunities in preservation.
ANNIE PETERSON is the Preservation Services Librarian at Lyrasis. Her interests include collaborative preservation activities, data driven decision-making for preservation, and preservation outreach and education. She is an active member of the Preservation and Reformatting Section of the American Library Association.
DAWN AVELINE is the Preservation Officer and Head of the Preservation Department at UCLA Library. She currently chairs the system-wide preservation group for the University of California, participates actively in the Preservation and Reformatting Section of the American Library Association, and is current Vice-President of the Steering Committee of the Los Angeles Preservation Network (LAPNet). She has presented on a variety of preservation, stewardship, and collection management topics.
REBECCA CRIST is a Project Manager for the Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s Center for Library Initiatives. As part of her duties she coordinates the CIC’s Shared Print Repository, overseeing logistical operations and data management. She has presented frequently on issues related to shared print management and, with Emily Stambaugh, coauthored the ARL’s Shared Print Programs: SPEC Kit 345.
CHERYLE COLE-BENNETT is the Program Coordinator for the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries’ (ASERL) Collaborative Federal Depository Program (CFDP). She is also the Program Coordinator for Scholars Trust, a cooperative print journal archive agreement between ASERL and the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC).
SANDRA McANINCH is the Head of the Federal Depository Unit at the University of Kentucky Libraries. She served in the same capacity at the University of Georgia Libraries. Sandra also coordinates the disposal of Federal Depository materials from the other nineteen depository libraries in Kentucky in her position as Federal Regional Depository Librarian for the state of Kentucky. In addition, she acts as the libraries’ internal resource for Federal Depository issues and depository collection management. She has spoken widely on Federal Regional Depository acquisitions, processing, and collection management.
HEATH MARTIN is the Director of Collections for the University of Kentucky Libraries. His research and service interests include collaborative collection development and relationships between print and digital resources in the contemporary academic library. He worked closely with the UK Libraries Federal Depository Unit in its implementation of the IMLS-ASERL Collaborative Federal Depository Program (CFDP) grant project and advised on the broader implications of the CFDP for the UK Libraries collections.
MATTHEW REVITT is a Librarian at the University of Maine. He was previously Program Manager for the Maine Shared Collections Strategy IMLS grant. He divides his time between continued work on the Maine Shared Collections Cooperative and managing university-related records for Special Collections. Matthew has written and spoken widely on shared print and has served on regional and national shared print committees for the Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust and HathiTrust.
ANGELA M. CARREÑO is the Head of Collection Development for the Division of Libraries at New York University. She has experience serving on numerous Library Advisory Boards established by publishers, is a Past Chair of the NERL (Northeast Research Library Consortium) Program Council, and is the recipient of the 2013 Coutts Award for Innovation in Electronic Resources Management.
WILLIAM MALTARICH is the Librarian for Collection Development for the New York University Division of Libraries. He has worked to develop partnerships and strategies for integrating electronic books into collection development, processing workflows, library discovery tools, and patron research throughout his career.
MICHAEL LEVINE-CLARK is the Interim Dean and Director at the University of Denver Libraries. He is the recipient of the 2015 Harrassowitz Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. An active member of ALCTS, he has served most recently as chair of the Collection Management Section. He writes and speaks regularly on collection development practices, including the use of e-books in academic libraries, the development of demand-driven acquisition models, and implications of discovery tool implementation.
ALLISON V. LEVEL is the Coordinator for Collections at the Colorado State University Libraries. She works with collection development, open access, and scholarly communication. She has a background in agricultural and natural resources librarianship and is active in the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) and the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC). Her research interests include information-seeking behaviors, data management, and new models of scholarly publishing.
JOAN G. LAMBORN served as the Associate Dean of University Libraries at the University of Northern Colorado up to her 2015 retirement. Her responsibilities included collection development and scholarly communication and she served as the university’s representative to the Shared Collection Development Committee of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. Her most recent articles and presentations focused on consortial initiatives in the acquisition of library materials and issues related to scholarly communication.
GEORGE MACHOVEC is the Executive Director of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, where he was previously the Associate Director and Technical Coordinator. Prior to that he was Head of Systems at Arizona State University Libraries. He is the Managing Editor for The Charleston Advisor and is the column editor on consortia and networking for the Journal of Library Administration.
SHERRI BERGER is a Product Manager at the California Digital Library, where she focuses on increasing online access to special collections. From July 2013 through September 2015, she managed the UC Libraries Digital Collection Project, which resulted in the implementation of a shared, multi-campus digital asset management system and the development of a new, harvest-based Calisphere website. Her 2012 assessment of usage statistics and digital library user demographics directly informed the design of the public interface.
CATHERINE MITCHELL is the Director of the California Digital Library’s Access and Publishing Program, which focuses on providing access to world-class digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums throughout the state of California and delivering open access publication and research distribution services to the University of California academic community through the development of advanced technologies and creative partnerships.
JOHN McDONALD is the Associate Dean for Collections for the University of Southern California Libraries. Prior to joining USC, he served in a variety of roles at the Claremont Colleges and the California Institute for Technology. He is the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 4th Edition, and is an active researcher and presenter on a variety of collection development and management issues.
ROBERT H. KIEFT served as the College Librarian at Occidental College up to his 2015 retirement. He developed his interest in shared collections at Haverford College in the TriCollege Consortium, the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc., and the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries. He has served on the boards of WEST and SCELC, was an adviser to the Maine Shared Collections Strategy, and is a member of the HathiTrust Shared Monographs Archive Task Force and the OCLC Shared Print Advisory Council.