EDITORIAL BIOS

Donald Altschiller [M.L.S., University of Rhode Island; B.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook] is the history, government documents, and military affairs bibliographer at Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University. Prior to his current position, he was a librarian at Harvard University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. A longtime reviewer for Choice, Library Journal, and ARBA, he also serves on the editorial board of Reference Books Bulletin. Altschiller has edited nine reference books and contributed entries to several encyclopedias. Awarded the ALA Carnegie-Whitney grant for bibliographic publication, he is currently working on a reference book on animal-assisted therapy. He is very interested in the American ethnic press, Middle East history, and loves arcane reference books.
 
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Damon L. Austin is AgNIC librarian, USDA/National Agricultural Library.
 
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Susan C. Awe [M.L.S., University of Wisconsin; B.A. French, University of Wisconsin] is the director of outreach and research for social sciences and management as well as an associate professor of librarianship at the University of New Mexico. Prior to this position, she was the branch manager for the Arvada Library, Jefferson County Public Library, Colo. A long time reference librarian, she has reviewed for Choice, Library Journal, and ARBA. She also serves on the editorial board of Reference Books Bulletin. Awe has published articles in Reference Services Review and numerous business collection development articles for Library Journal. Awe edited the 2nd ed. of the ARBA Guide to Subject Encyclopedias and Dictionaries; she has published two books: The Entrepreneur's Information Sourcebook: Charting the Path to Small Business Success (2006) and Going Global: An Information Sourcebook for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (2009) with Libraries Unlimited (ABC-CLIO). She is particularly interested in business and economics resources and how they're used by libraries, students, faculty, and researchers.
 
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David J. Bertuca is map librarian, University Libraries, University at Buffalo.
 
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Barbara M. Bibel [M.L.S., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; B.A., University of California, Los Angeles] is a reference/collection development librarian and consumer health information specialist (Medical Library Association certification) at the Oakland Public Library in California. She previously worked in Humanities Graduate Service at the University of California, Berkeley Library. A member of RUSA/CODES, she has chaired the Dartmouth Medal, Material Reviewing, and Sophie Brody Medal committees and serves on the editorial board of Reference Books Bulletin. She is authoring the consumer health information chapter of the Medical Library Association Guide to Finding Health Information on the Web, and she recently wrote the chapter on public libraries for the MLA Guide to Health Literacy and the chapters on health and medicine, encyclopedias, and philosophy and religion for the 7th ed. of Reference Sources for Small and Medium-Sized Libraries.
 
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Beth Bidlack [Ph.D., Boston University; M.T.S., Boston University School of Theology; B.A., Urbana University] is bibliographer for religion and philosophy at the University of Chicago Library. Prior to Chicago, she was the librarian and taught biblical languages and literature at Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine. She currently chairs the Publications Committee of the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) and has recently chaired ATLA's Collection Evaluation and Development Interest Group. She is also a member of the Library Advisory Board for Oxford Biblical Studies Online. Her current research interests include Antoinette Brown Blackwell and Olympia Brown, two of the first women to become ordained ministers who were also active in the woman's suffrage movement.
 
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Kelly Blessinger [M.L.I.S., School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina; B.S., Earth Science, Eastern Michigan University] is the reference assistant coordinator at Louisiana State University Libraries, where she has worked since 1999. She serves as the subject liaison and collection developer for the Geography, Anthropology, and Geology departments. Professional publications include articles in College and Research Libraries, Library Collections Acquisitions and Technical Services and The Serials Librarian. Her current research interests include serial studies, education/career trends for librarians, and publication trends for librarians.
 
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Fred Burchsted [M.L.I.S., School of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison; A.B., University of Chicago] is research librarian at Widener Library, Harvard University. Prior to Harvard, he worked at the Burndy Library of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and at the Archives of American Mathematics and Faculty Papers Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. He serves as liaison to the History of Science and to the History of American Civilization at Harvard. He has published reviews in ARBA. He is particularly interested in biographical research, sources for history of science, technology, and medicine, and in the history of local natural history. Recent publication: "Samuel Tufts Jr. (1817–1902), a Massachusetts Shell Collector and Aquarium Stocker," Archives of Natural History, 34 (2) (with J.C.A. Burchsted).
 
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John Budd is professor, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri-Columbia.
 
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Hans Bynagle [Ph.D. Philosophy, Columbia University; M.L.S., Kent State University; B.A., Calvin College] is director of the library and professor at Whitworth University. Previously, he served as library director at Eckerd College and Friends University. Author of three editions of Philosophy: A Guide to the Reference Literature (Libraries Unlimited 1986, 1997, 2006), he has also published numerous reviews, chiefly on philosophy and religion, in ARBA, Library Journal, Collection Development, and Christian Scholar's Review. Current teaching and research, with several recent publications, focus on philosophy of mind. A member of ALA/ACRL, Hans has served on ALA's Committee on Professional Ethics.
 
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Paul Cammarata [M.L.S., University of Kentucky; B.A., State University of New York, College at Geneseo] is the assistant collection development librarian at the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina–Columbia. Previous to his current position he was a reference/instruction librarian at the Thomas Cooper Library and his primary area of responsibility was building and maintaining the reference collection. He has also held reference positions at State University of New York at Stony Brook and the University of Louisville Law Library.
 
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Nancy F. Campbell [M.S.L.S., School of Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky; B.A., University of Kentucky] is assistant to the associate provost for library services and associate professor of library services at Northern Kentucky University, where she has administrative and collection development responsibilities, in addition to playing an active role in the Research & Instructional Services Division. She was previously head of reference at Northern Kentucky University and an adjunct faculty at the University of Kentucky and has published articles in Research Strategies, Library Trends, and portal: Libraries and the Academy. She is currently a reviewer for Collection Management and Technical Services Quarterly, as well as a contributor to Magazines for Libraries.
 
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Thomas Caswell [M.L.I.S., University of South Florida; B.A. Art History, University of Florida] is associate university librarian in the Architecture and Fine Arts Library at the University of Florida. He provides reference and instructional assistance in art, architecture, and related disciplines and serves as subject specialist and collection manager in the areas of art, art history, historic preservation, and museum studies. As a member of ACRL/Arts Section and the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), he has chaired several committees and planned various conference programs related to reference services and arts information professionals. Current research interests and publications concern providing specialized reference in arts-related disciplines and developing core competency standards in the use and access of visual-based information.
 
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Erica Lynn Coe [M.A., Literature, Ball State University; M.L.S., Indiana University Bloomington] is head of instruction services at University of Washington Tacoma, where she coordinates the instruction and information literacy program. Her duties include reference, instruction, and department liaison activities for nursing, social work, and the Milgard School of Business. Previously, she was the liaison to the School of Business Administration at the University of Dayton in Ohio for five years. She is author of the "Business and Career" chapter of Reference Sources for Small and Medium Sized Libraries (7th ed., 2007). She has also contributed to Magazines for Libraries and The Charleston Advisor.
 
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Timothy W. Cole [M.S.L.I.S., B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] is mathematics librarian, interim head of digital services and development, professor of library administration, and adjunct professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A member of the library faculty at Illinois since 1989, he held prior appointments as systems librarian for digital projects and as assistant engineering librarian for information services before becoming mathematics librarian in 2000. He was a contributor to the 2nd ed. of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science ("Mathematics Databases") and has published and presented widely on metadata for digital resources, on digital library interoperability and system design, and on the use of XML, MathML, and similar emerging technologies in scholarly communications. He is Past-Chair of the National Science Digital Library Standing Committee for Technology and is currently involved in research focusing on ways to enhance and extend the use and usefulness of digital library services and information resources.
 
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Madeline A. Copp [M.L.S., GSLIS, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., B.A. English, CSU, Long Beach] is the librarian at the Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College in Philadelphia. She has worked as a reference/collection development/instruction librarian in several libraries during her career, including positions at the University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University, Occidental College, University of California, Irvine, U.S. Naval Academy, and the Huntington Library. She has been active in ALA throughout her career, spending most of her time with ACRL LES, IS, and LIRT. She has presented and published on information literacy and collection development and is an adjunct instructor teaching collection development at Drexel University's iSchool. Her areas of interest include reference, collection development, instruction, and Web design.
 
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Rosanne M. Cordell [M.L.S., Indiana University Bloomington; M.S., B.S. Elementary Education, Indiana University South Bend] is head of reference services for Franklin D. Schurz Library at Indiana University South Bend, where she is responsible for all information commons desk activities, the coordination of all projects related to reference services, and the selection and maintenance of the reference collection. She previously held the position of head of instruction at Schurz Library. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in bibliographic research and provides library instruction sessions. She reviews reference materials for Library Journal and ARBA, and is a member of RUSA, FTRF, and IFRT. Her current research is into the effect of credit courses on the information seeking behavior of undergraduate students.
 
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Angela Courtney [M.A. English, University of Georgia; M.L.I.S., University of Texas at Austin] is the bibliographer for English literature, film, theater, and philosophy at Indiana University-Bloomington. Before moving to Indiana, she was a senior reference librarian and the university archivist at Fairfield University. Her career in libraries started at Auburn University where she was the librarian for English literature. Actively involved in the Literatures in English Section of ACRL, she is the incoming Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the section. Her most recent publication is the Scarecrow Press book, Literary Research in the Era of American Nationalism and Romanticism.
 
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F. Bartow Culp [M.L.S., Indiana University-Bloomington; B.S. Chemistry, University of South Carolina; Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, University of Delaware] is chemistry librarian and associate professor of library science at Purdue University since 1994. He previously worked in industry as a technical information specialist for 3M Company and Teltech/Sopheon. Prior to that, he taught chemistry at the university level both in the United States and Germany. He is an active member of the American Chemical Society and has presented over 40 papers before the Chemical Information, Chemical Education, and History divisions and of the Special Libraries Association's Chemistry and Sci/Tech divisions, where he has presented over 30 papers. He has also served on a variety of divisional and international committees and taught CE courses in both organizations. He has published over 30 articles in both librarianship and chemistry in Reference Librarian, Library Journal, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Organic Chemistry, and others. He has contributed topical and biographical articles to Chemistry: Foundations and Applications, a Macmillan Reference publication. His research interests center on the areas of chemical information instruction in American and European institutions of higher learning and on the history of chemical literature.
 
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Amed Demirhan is director and university librarian, University of Kurdistan Hawler Library, Kurdistan Federal Region, Iraq.
 
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Jennifer Duncan [M.L.I.S., School of Information, University of Texas at Austin; B.A., Smith College] is the head of collection development at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, where she also works on the reference desk. Prior to Utah State, she also worked as an electronic resources librarian at both Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas, and at Columbia University in New York. Jennifer is an active member of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) and has served on several NASIG committees. She is currently the blog editor for the NASIG Newsletter. She also serves on the Utah Academic Library Consortium Collection Development Committee as well as the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) Collection Development Committee.
 
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Michael Fosmire [M.L.I.S. and M.S. Physics, University of Washington; B.S. Physics and Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University] is head of the physical sciences, engineering, and technology division of the Purdue University Libraries, where he has worked since 1998. In addition to editing the physics and general science sections of the Guide to Reference, he also edits the physics section of Resources for College Libraries and reviews for E-STREAMS and Choice. Michael is on the editorial board of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, an open-access publication of the Science and Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, and is editor of E-STREAMS, an open-access book review journal published by YBP. In addition to his interest in reviewing materials, Michael has authored or coauthored over 15 peer-reviewed scholarly articles on topics that include scholarly communication, information literacy, and the information-seeking and utilization behavior of scientists.
 
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Ayanna Gaines [M.L.I.S., Dominican University; B.A., English and American Literature, Brown University] is currently working as a reference and instruction librarian at Ventura College, in Ventura, Calif. While serving as assistant professor/reference librarian at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Ill., she developed a collection of graphic novels featuring artists as diverse as Los Bros Hernandez (Love and Rockets), Chynna Clugston (Blue Monday), and Brian K. Vaughn (Runaways). She is area head for magazines and newspapers for the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, as well as a member of the Popular Culture Association. Her current interests include fan populations and their use of the Internet, Internet memes, and the cult of Joss Whedon.
 
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Jon C. Giullian [M.L.S., Indiana University; M.A., University of Kansas; B.A., Brigham Young University] is librarian for East and West Slavic collections at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He also coordinates the library instructional program for the KU Libraries' Slavic and Eurasian Studies Department. He taught Russian at the Middlebury Summer Language Schools (2000), where he also served as graduate intern for two consecutive years (1998–1999). He has presented papers on Russian literature and library science and published articles and reviews on various aspect of Slavic librarianship in Slavic and East European Information Resources (SEEIR) and monographic publications. He currently serves on library-related subcommittees for the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) and the Slavic and East European Section (SEES) of ACRL. While working on his M.L.S. at Indiana University, Giullian trained under the esteemed Murlin Croucher, long-time Slavic bibliographer at Indiana University and author of Slavic Studies: A Guide to Bibliographies, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks. Giullian is currently working on projects in information literacy for Slavic and Eurasian studies, comparative analysis of Russian book vendors, and the evolution of Russian and Eastern European library practices and services.
 
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Sara Russell Gonzalez [M.L.I.S., Florida State University; B.S., California Institute of Technology; Ph.D. Geophysics, University of California-Santa Cruz] is the physical sciences librarian at the University of Florida, where she is involved in collection management, instruction, and reference. Prior to becoming a librarian, Sara conducted seismological research in monitoring and discrimination nuclear explosions. In addition to the Guide to Reference, Sara is also the astronomy advisor for ALA's Resources for College Libraries. She is interested in the evolution of publishing in the physical sciences, distance education, and developing academic games for instruction.
 
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David N. Griffiths [M.S., Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); M.A. History, UIUC] is assistant government information librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he provides reference service and instruction, performs original cataloging, and manages the Library's United Nations collection. He has served on GODORT's International Documents Task Force in a number of roles, including coordinator (2001/2002) since 1994. His articles on U.N.-related reference service and access to IGO information resources have been published in Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, the Journal of Academic Librarianship, Reference Services Review, and Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian. His current research focuses on metadata quality in IGO databases.
 
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Paul Hamburg is librarian for the Judaica collection, University of California, Berkeley.
 
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Jason L. Hardin [B.A. Spanish, University of Tennessee, Knoxville] is manager of access services at the E. H. Coates Library, Trinity University, and serves as liaison/instruction librarian to the Spanish section of Trinity's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. He also performs collection development in the areas of Spanish- and Italian-language literary and linguistic resources, as well as in Hispanic-American/Chicano studies. Hardin has worked with Trinity's International Studies Department to develop and teach a Model United Nations/Model Organization of American States (MUN/MOAS) course program, and has traveled with this group throughout the U.S. and México, coaching the students during competitive MUN/MOAS events. He has studied Arabic independently under native-speaking tutors as well as at the undergraduate university level. He has served on Trinity's Fulbright Arabic Language Forum (ALF) and on NITLE's Forum on Teaching Arabic. He is especially interested in the historical interplay between Arabic and Hispanic languages and cultures, and in Semitic and Classical languages.
 
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Alison Hicks [M.S.I.S., School of Information, University of Texas at Austin; M.A. French and Spanish, University of St. Andrews, Scotland] is humanities research and instruction librarian at the University of Colorado at Boulder and bibliographer for Comparative Literature, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages and literature. She has also worked as a public services librarian at the Inter-American Development Bank, at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella library in Buenos Aires, and as a web assistant for LANIC. A member of Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), she is Chair of the Serials subcommittee and is interested in e-content and academic uses for Web 2.0 technologies.
 
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Diane Hillman is retired from Cornell University Library.
 
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Barbara M. Jones is an international library consultant. She recently retired as university librarian at Wesleyan University.
 
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Cindy Stewart Kaag Ph.D., Washington State University; M.L.S. and B.A., University of Wisconsin] is the head of research services and of the science libraries at Washington State University, where she is also the liaison for environmental sciences. Previously, she served as interim dean and head of science collection development at WSU, among other positions. She is a Past-President of RUSA and Past-Chair of CODES, and frequently reviews science books. She has published on collection evaluation techniques, and her research focus is on environmental studies and sciences related to Yellowstone National Park.
 
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Akram Khabibullaev is librarian for Middle Eastern, Islamic and Central Eurasian studies, Indiana University.
 
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Sean Patrick Knowlton [M.S.L.S., School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.A. Hispanic Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; A.B. Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] is reference/instruction librarian and bibliographer at the Latin American Library at Tulane University. Prior to Tulane, he worked at the University of Colorado at Boulder as humanities reference/instruction librarian and bibliographer for reference, comparative literature, and Spanish and Portuguese languages and literature. A member of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), he was Chair of the Subcommittee on Bibliographic Instruction; he has published in College and Research Libraries and To Improve the Academy. He is interested in Latin American collection development, reference, and instruction.
 
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Robert L. Kusmer [M.L.S., Kent State University; Ph.D., Northwestern University; B.A. cum laude, Cleveland State University] is a cataloger and the liaison for German language and literature at the University of Notre Dame. He has taught German at Purdue University Northwest and Indiana University South Bend. He serves as editor of the WESS Newsletter column, "New Publications of Note," editor of the Oliver Leonard Kapsner, O.S.B. Cataloging Bulletin of the Catholic Library Association, and abstractor for Reference Reviews Europe. He participated in the German translation of AACR2 and has published articles in Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History; Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950; and The Literary Encyclopedia, as well as accounts of his study tours in Germany in the WESS Newsletter.
 
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Lynn B. Lay [M.L.S., School of Library Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio; B.S., Ohio State University, Columbus] is the librarian of the Goldthwait Polar Library, Byrd Polar Research Center at The Ohio State University, where she has worked for over 25 years as the sole librarian. She is responsible for the management and operation of the library, including collection development, cataloging, circulation, and reference. She is also responsible for the Byrd Center's Publication Distribution Program. A member of the Polar Libraries Colloquy, she has attended several meetings and published articles in their proceedings volumes. She has served on committees for this organization, including the U.S. Polar Information Working Group (PIWG) and most recently is a member of the committee to produce a Union Catalog of Polar Digitization Projects. She is a former coeditor of the Polar Libraries Bulletin.
 
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Edward F. Lener [M.L.S., State University of New York at Albany; M.S. Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech] is a college librarian for the sciences at Virginia Tech, handling an ever-changing mix of reference work, instruction, collection development, and outreach. A member of ACRL STS, he has held a number of positions in that Section, including Publicity Officer (2006–2008). He is also active in the Geoscience Information Society and currently serves on the Mary B. Ansari Best Reference Work Award Committee. He coedits the earth sciences section of Magazines for Libraries and has published articles in College and Research Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and the Reference Librarian. He is active in university governance at Virginia Tech and pursues a variety of research interests, including assessment of library instruction and evaluation standards for library faculty.
 
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Elisabeth Leonard [M.S.L.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.B.A., Wake Forest University] is associate dean of library services at Western Carolina University, and is professor at San Jose State University, teaching information organizations and management. She is also a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying innovation in libraries. Prior to this, Elisabeth was head of reference, instruction, and outreach and liaison to the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego, and head of reference and business bibliographer at Wake Forest University. A member of RUSA/CODES, RUSA/BRASS, and LAMA, she has held positions on committees in these sections, including Chair of the BRASS Program Planning Committee, Chair of the CODES Liaison with Users Committee, and member of the BRASS Education Committee and Business Reference Sources Committee. She has published articles in Library Journal, the Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, and RUSQ, and she teaches a professional development class for RUSA, Marketing Basics for Libraries.
 
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Lili Luo [M.L.I.S., School of Information Management, Peking University, China; Ph.D., School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] is a assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. She teaches courses in the area of reference and instructional services and has published articles on various reference topics. She is interested in exploring more about how the advent of new technologies has impacted the library world and library users.
 
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Daniel C. Mack [M.A., University of Akron; M.L.S., Kent State University; B.A., Youngstown State University] is head of the George and Sherry Middlemas Arts and Humanities Library at The Pennsylvania State University and is subject specialist for ancient history, classics, Jewish studies, philosophy, and religion. He also teaches Roman civilization, classical literature, and Latin. Prior to Penn State, he worked as librarian at Dauphin County Prison and at the University of Akron. He is active in RUSA/CODES, for whom he has chaired several committees, and currently serves as editor of the division's newsletter, RUSA Update. He is a consulting editor for the New Pauly, the encyclopedia of classical antiquity. He publishes in collection development and library outreach to underserved populations. Current research interests include library services for the humanities and Roman civilization under Caesar Augustus.
 
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Matthew R. Marsteller [B.S. Physics, M.S.L.S., Clarion University of Pennsylvania] is head of the Science Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also held the position of physics and math librarian. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Library Science at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches Bibliography of the Sciences and other courses. He has also served as team leader for library services at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (in the employ of EG&G Technical Services of West Virginia) and as an assistant science librarian at the University of South Carolina. Prior to working as a librarian, he served for six years in the U.S. Navy as a surface ship nuclear propulsion plant operator.
 
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Scott R. McEathron [M.L.I.S., School of Library and Information Science and M.A. Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; B.A. Geography, University of Minnesota] is map librarian and bibliographer for geography and environmental studies at the University of Kansas Libraries. Previous professional positions working with map and geography collections and public services include the Map and Geography Library, University of Illinois Libraries; University of Connecticut Libraries; and the American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As a member of the Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association, he has held several positions including Chair (2006/2007). His interests and publications have focused on issues related to map librarianship, and he has also published numerous reviews in Choice.
 
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John J. Meier [M.L.I.S. University of Pittsburgh; M.S., B.S. Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University] is a science librarian in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library at Pennsylvania State University. Previously he has worked as engineering librarian at the University of New Orleans and systems/reference librarian at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. He is responsible for liaison and collections in mathematics and statistics, and he is the patent and trademark depository librarian for Penn State. He is an active member of ALA with participation in the New Members Roundtable and the Science and Technology Section of ACRL. He is the author of the mathematics chapter in the 18th ed. of Magazines for Libraries and has presented and published in the area of using technology in libraries including RSS, Google Scholar, and chat reference.
 
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Terri Tickle Miller [M.L.S., Kent State University; M.A. Russian History, The Ohio State University; B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University] is Slavic bibliographer and coordinator of area studies collections at Michigan State University Libraries, as well as a reference librarian. She previously worked in the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has held a number of positions in the ACRL Slavic and East European Section, including Chair (2004/2005, 2008/2009), and has published articles and reviews in Slavic and East European Information Resources, ChoiceK, ,i>ARBA, and Reference Services Review. She is a specialist in Russian reference service with a particular interest in online statistical data from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She is currently researching faculty information literacy programs.
 
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Christa M. Modschiedler [Universität Freiburg, Universität Heidelberg, and Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany; M.A.L.S., Graduate School of Library amd Information Science, Dominican University, formerly Rosary College, River Forest, Ill.; B.A., Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Ill.] is biomedical bibliographer and science reference librarian at the John Crerar Library at the University of Chicago, where she has worked in collection development and public services positions throughout her professional career. She was previously biology librarian at the University of Chicago Library. She is a member of the Medical Library Association (MLA), MLA collection development and public services sections, and various special interest groups. She contributed to two previous editions of the Guide to Reference Books (Suppl. to the 10th ed., 1992; and to the 11th ed., 1996) and coauthored Collection Development and Management for Electronic, Audiovisual, and Print Resources in Health Sciences Libraries by Linda Walton, et al. (Chicago: Medical Library Association, 2004). She was a member of the HealthWeb team, a collaborative project of health sciences libraries in the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, 1996–2007.
 
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Janalyn L. Moss [M.L.S., School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.A. History, University of Illinois, Springfield; B.S. History and Political Science, Illinois State University] is a reference and instruction librarian and American history bibliographer at the University of Iowa. She has also held reference positions at Illinois State University and Muskingum College. She is a member and Past-Chair of the RUSA History Section Historical Materials Committee (formerly Bibliographies and Indexes Committee). She has published reviews in Choice and Reference Reviews and served as editor and contributor to "Best Bibliographies in History" published annually in Reference and User Services Quarterly.
 
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Sharon K. Naylor [M.S., Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.S. Education, Illinois State University] currently is the education librarian at Illinois State University where she has also worked in various other public services positions. Prior to coming to Illinois State University, she worked as a school librarian and taught secondary English. A member of EBSS, she has served on numerous committees, including Higher Education, Publications and Communications, and References Sources and Services. She also served as secretary of the section from 2005–2007. Her primary areas of interest are related to reference services and collection development. She, with two colleagues, recently published an article in Reference and Users Services Quarterly, was a contributor to Resources for College Libraries, and has been a continuing contributor to Magazines for Libraries.
 
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Nancy P. O'Brien [M.L.S., A.B., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)] is head of the Education and Social Science Library at UIUC and professor of library administration. As education subject specialist, she is responsible for building and maintaining the collection of education resources in all formats and providing asynchronous and real-time instruction and reference service. Professor O'Brien's use of education information is that of both a provider and scholar. Her research focuses on the history, organization, and management of education and testing resources in libraries. Her publications include books, chapters, and articles that address access to current and historical education information. She authored Education: A Guide to Information and Reference Sources (2000) and is coeditor of the Greenwood Dictionary of Education (2003) and Resources for College Libraries: Education (2006). Professor O'Brien is a member of the ERIC Steering Committee, which advises the U.S. Department of Education's ERIC program. She received the 1997 Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries and is currently working on a 2nd ed. of the Greenwood Dictionary of Education.
 
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Jack O'Gorman [M.L.S., St. John's University; B.A., Walsh University] is reference and instruction librarian and associate professor at University of Dayton. Prior to Dayton, he was electronic reference services librarian, Northern Kentucky University, and technical information specialist, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He was Chair of the editorial board of Reference Books Bulletin from 2001–2004 and continues as a member of that board. He has served on the RUSA Outstanding Reference Sources Committee and the Dartmouth Award Committee. He is editor, Reference Sources for Small and Medium Sized Libraries, 7th ed.; editor, Recommended Reference Books in Paperback, 3rd ed.; and a contributor to Reference Sources for Small and Medium Sized Libraries, 5th and 6th eds. He is also contributing to an encyclopedia of educational reformers and writing an article on the future of reference services.
 
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Michelle Oswell [M.S.L.I.S., College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; B.M., University of Delaware] is humanities librarian for music and literature at Haverford College. She has published a review in Notes and will present at two sessions at the national Music Library Association meeting in February 2009. She received the Walter Gerboth award from MLA for her ongoing lute song database project and holds a general interest in web development and digital initiatives in music and literature.
 
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Elizabeth Outler [M.L.I.S., College of Information, Florida State University; J.D., Levin College of Law, University of Florida; B.A., Smith College] is head of public services and tax law reference librarian at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law, University of Florida, where she also teaches Advanced Legal Research. A member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), she chaired the Education and Publications Committee for the Southeastern Chapter of AALL (SEAALL) in 2008–2009. She has published "Researching Initiatives and Referendums: A Guide for Florida," in Legal Reference Services Quarterly in 2007. She is interested in public access to government information, especially the Federal Depository Library Program and the shift to electronic information access.
 
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George I. Paganelis [M.S. Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.A. Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder; B.A. History, University of California, Davis] is curator of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection in the University Library at California State University, Sacramento, where he has worked since 2003. He has been active in ACRL's Western European Studies Section (WESS) and currently serves as Chair of its Committee on Recruitment to the Profession. He is also Past-Chair of the Library Committee of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) and serves on the Executive Committee of the nascent Collaborative Project for Hellenic Resources, an initiative nearing formal status under the Global Resources Network of CRL. He has published articles in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies and is interested in Classics/Hellenic studies librarianship.
 
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Elizabeth L. Patterson [M.L.S., Simmons College; M.A., Wesleyan University; B.A., Hollins University] is librarian for research and subject liaison in philosophy, Woodruff Library, Emory University, where she also has served as head of reference and director of the Virtual Library Project. At Emory, she has established several innovative information technology programs and helped to create and direct the Frye Leadership Institute. Prior to Emory, she was assistant head of reference, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, subject liaison for psychology and British history, and head of interlibrary loan. She has published articles and reviews in Choice, ,i>ARBA, College and Research Libraries, and Reference Services Review, and served as section editor in both Psychology and Theses and Dissertations for the 11th ed. of the Guide to Reference Books. She is working on a major initiative to review and weed sections of the Woodruff Library's print collection and implement a new database statistical assessment program.
 
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Lisa Pillow is collection development librarian, University of Wisconsin, River Falls.
 
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Barbara Pilvin is librarian, Free Library of Philadelphia.
 
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Emily Ray [M.L.S., School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University; M.A., Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University; B.A., Yale University] is monographs librarian in the Technical Services Department at Vassar College Library, where she has responsibilities for cataloging and acquisitions of monographs. Prior to Vassar, she worked at Yale University Libraries as a cataloger on the Slavic and East European Cataloging team, focusing primarily on cataloging Hungarian and also Slavic language materials. She is currently a member of two committees in the Slavic and East European Section (SEES) of ACRL, the Automated Bibliographic Control Committee of SEES, and the Access and Preservation Committee of SEES. Interest in library preservation issues led to an abridged version of her MA thesis, "The Prague Library Floods of 2002: Crisis and Experimentation" being published by Libraries and Culture in 2006. She is also interested in issues impacting non-Latin script cataloging.
 
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Patrick Reakes [M.S.L.S., School of Information Studies, Florida State University; B.S. Public Relations, University of Florida] is chair, departmental libraries/head of the Neuharth Journalism Library at the University of Florida (UF). He has been an adjunct faculty member and reference librarian at Florida Coastal School of Law, where he taught advanced legal research, and also worked at Florida State University as a reference librarian and business specialist. He has published articles and reviews in College and Research Libraries, Technical Services Quarterly, Reference and User Services Quarterly, The Reference Librarian, ARBA, College and Research Library News, Journalism History, and College and Undergraduate Libraries. He is a member of RUSA/MARS, RUSA/CODES, RUSA/BRASS, RUSA/RSS, and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), and he is the developer/designer of the award-winning Florida Journalism History Project website.
 
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Lynne M. Rudasill [M.S.L.S., Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.A. Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] is the global studies librarian and subject specialist for political science and speech communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There she has served in various public service, collection development, and subject liaison positions, including sociology, and as reference librarian for instruction and educational technology. Prior to her position at the University of Illinois, she served as reference and instruction librarian at Eureka College. A member of ACRL, she has held a number of positions in the Law and Political Science Section, including Chair (2004). She is also a current ALA representative to the Social Sciences Committee of IFLA. She has published articles and reviews in portal: Libraries and the Academy, E-STREAMS, Serials Librarian, and New Library World, as well as chapters in several books. Her current area of research is the development, collection, and dissemination of information by nongovernmental organizations.
 
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Margaret Schaus [M.L.I.S., School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Center for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto; B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] is a reference librarian and bibliographer at Haverford College. She has edited Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2006) and the website Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index (1996– ) (http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/whatis.html). She has published articles and reviews in ,i>Choice, Journal of Women's History, College and Research Library News, and Medieval Feminist Newsletter. She is interested in all aspects of library instruction and student approaches to research in the humanities and social sciences and is currently researching publishing patterns within the field of Medieval Studies.
 
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Susan E. Searing [A.M.L.S., University of Michigan; B.A., Binghamton University] is an associate professor of library administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is in charge of the Library and Information Science Virtual Library and is affiliated with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Sue previously worked for the University of Wisconsin—Madison as deputy director and associate director for public services; for the multicampus University of Wisconsin System as women's studies librarian-at-large; and for Yale University as a reference librarian. She has taught graduate courses in LIS at Illinois and Wisconsin—Madison. Sue was honored with the ALA/Scarecrow Press Equality Award in 1992 and the first ACRL Women's Studies Section/Greenwood Press Award for Career Achievement in Women's Studies Librarianship in 2000. She is Past-Chair of the ACRL Library and Information Science Collections Discussion Group and currently serves on the executive board of Beta Phi Mu, the international library science honor society. For many years she reviewed reference books in her column in Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources. Sue's research interests center on the evolution of reference sources in the field of gender studies. She has also published in the areas of collection development, information literacy in interdisciplinary fields, and the library's role in distance education.
 
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Peggy Seiden [M.L.I.S., Rutgers University; M.A. Medieval Studies, University of Toronto; B.A., Colby College] is currently College Librarian at Swarthmore College. Prior to Swarthmore, she worked at several other academic libraries in reference and directorial positions, most recently at Skidmore College. A long-time member of RUSA, she served as president from 1999–2000 and as Chair of RUSA/MARS from 1994–1995. She currently is serving a second term on ACRL's New Publications Advisory Board and served on the RLG Board from 2001–2007. She is particularly interested in user behavior and the impact of technology on library organizations, and has published and presented extensively on those topics.
 
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Flora G. Shrode [M.S.L.I.S., University of Texas at Austin; B.A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville] is head of reference and instructional services at the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University in Logan. Flora also serves as subject liaison librarian to USU's Departments of Biology and Chemistry & Biochemistry. In previous positions she served as science coordinator and subject librarian in disciplines of agriculture, biology, chemistry, and physics at the Hodges Library of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and at Virginia Tech. Flora writes reviews for Choice and compiles a regular column in environmental information sources for the Electronic Green Journal.
 
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Robin N. Sinn [M.S., Drexel University; B.A. Biology, Coe College] is a research services librarian at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. She is currently the liaison for the departments of cognitive science, psychological and brain sciences, biology, biophysics, and mechanical engineering. Previously, she was head of the Ogg Science Library at Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and public services librarian at the Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia). She writes reviews of science reference material for RUSQ and is a member of ALA and ACRL. Robin is interested in how library patrons perform research and use library tools.
 
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Donna Smith [M.S.L.S., School of Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky; B.S., Northern Kentucky University] is the assistant head of technical services and an associate professor of library services at W. Frank Steely Library of Northern Kentucky University, where she oversees the acquisitions, serials, and government documents processing departments. In addition, she manages the license agreements for electronic resources, performs original cataloging, and participates in collection development. Publications include the "Business and Economics" chapter in Recommended Reference Books in Paperback, 3rd edition, and contributions to a variety of encyclopedias. She has served on several committees in the Kentucky Library Association, as well as ALA. She currently co-edits the "Printing and Graphic Arts" chapter of Magazines for Libraries and serves as a continuing contributor for Reference Reviews.
 
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Sha Towers [M.L.I.S., University of Texas at Austin; M.M. and B.M., Baylor University] is head of the Crouch Music and Fine Arts Library at Baylor University, where he has also worked in various positions in reference, public services, and collection development. He has served as an abstractor for Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) and electronic resources columnist and editorial board member of Music Reference Services Quarterly. Additionally, he has served on a number of committees of the Music Library Association, including Information Sharing, Electronic Reference Services, Web Advisory Taskforce, and Digital Music Working Group. He is active in conference presentations on integrating new technologies and library services.
 
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Barry Trott [M.S.L.S., The Catholic University of America School of Library and Information Science] is the director of adult services at the Williamsburg (VA) Regional Library, where he has also worked as a reference librarian. He oversees the provision of reference and readers' advisory services and collection development of all adult materials. He is currently Vice-President/President-Elect of ALA's Reference and User Services (RUSA) division and Past-Chair of the RUSA/CODES Readers' Advisory Committee. He edits the readers' advisory column for RUSQ, and writes for NoveList's readers' advisory database. He serves as series editor for Libraries Unlimited's Read On series and teaches as an adjunct faculty member for Catholic University's library school. In 2007, Barry was awarded both the Public Library Association's Allie Beth Martin Award and the ALA Reference and User Services Association's Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award in recognition for his work in readers' advisory services.
 
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Louis Vyhnanek is humanities and social sciences collection manager and history subject specialist, Holland and Terrell Libraries, Washington State University.
 
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Rui Wang is social sciences librarian, reference librarian, and assistant professor, Central Michigan University.
 
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Elizabeth A. Waraksa [Ph.D., M.A., B.A., Johns Hopkins University] is currently librarian for Middle Eastern studies at the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA. She also works with the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (http://uee.ucla.edu/) as a copy editor and digital librarian. Prior to January 2009, she held a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources at the UCLA Library. She has also taught numerous courses in Near Eastern studies, expository writing, and bibliography and research methods at Johns Hopkins and UCLA. Elizabeth has published articles and reviews in Choice, The Bryn Mawr Classical Review, and the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, and a revised version of her dissertation, Female Figurines from the Mut Precinct: Context and Ritual Function, is forthcoming in the Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis series. She is a member of the American Research Center in Egypt and the American Schools of Oriental Research, and regularly presents conference papers on her areas of academic interest.
 
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Pam A. Werre [M.A., Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.S., Curriculum and Instruction, Illinois State University] is the public services librarian at Minnesota State University Moorhead. In this position, she selects materials for and manages the reference collection of the library. Previously, she held reference positions at Illinois State University and St. Olaf College. She is pursuing an advanced degree in children's literature and has taught the undergraduate course in children's literature at MSUM. A member of ACRL, ALSC, and the Children's Literature Association, she is currently the Co-Chair of the Reference Sources and Services committee of EBSS. Recently, she had an article on the University of Minnesota Press published in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing and is a contributing author for the second edition of the Greenwood Dictionary of Education.
 
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Threasa L. Wesley [M.L.S., School of Library and Information Studies, University of Kentucky; B.A., Western Kentucky University] is an associate professor of library services at Northern Kentucky University, where she serves as the head of the Research and Instructional Services Division within Steely Library. Prior to leading this division she was the coordinator of instructional services at NKU and began her professional library science career as a reference librarian at Berea College. She has published reviews in Choice and PSQ: Public Services Quarterly and was a contributor to Recommended Reference Books in Paperback. She is generally interested in information literacy curriculum design and advocacy of expanded faculty roles for librarians, publishing articles in these fields in portal: Libraries and the Academy, Research Strategies, and The Reference Librarian. Recently, she was coadministrator of a grant-funded project to enhance educational opportunities for jail inmate populations through structured reading programs.
 
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Helene Williams [M.L.S., Indiana University; M.A. English, Purdue University; B.A., University of the Pacific] teaches collection development and reference courses at the University of Washington Information School and is an independent library consultant. Previously, she was the English bibliographer for the humanities and humanities e-resources coordinator at Harvard, and prior to that she was the English studies librarian at the University of Washington. Professional publications include Teaching the New Library to Today's Users, multiple chapters in recent editions of Magazines for Libraries, and reviews in, among others, Choice, Library Journal, and Historical Novel Review. She has also written on, and continues to actively promote, the need for teaching research methods to graduate students in humanities fields, as well as to incoming information science students.
 
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Michael Witt [M.L.S., Indiana University-Indianapolis] is an assistant professor of library science and the interdisciplinary research librarian at Purdue University, where he has worked since 2000. In addition to editing the dissertation section of the Guide to Reference, he reviews books on academic librarianship and library science for Catholic Library World. He was named one of 2008's "Emerging Leaders" by the American Library Association and has presented at over 30 conferences, including the International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. He conducts research and writes on topics related to library technology and digital curation.
 
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Jessica de Perio Wittman [M.L.S., University at Buffalo; J.D., Seattle University School of Law; B.A. Sociology, University at Buffalo; B.A. English, Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook] is the instructional services reference librarian at the University of Florida Legal Information Center and teaches Advanced Legal Research at the College of Law. A member of AALL and SEAALL, she serves on the ALL-SIS Student Services Committee and SEAALL Newsletter Committee. She is interested in distance learning and the use of web-based tools in legal education and law librarianship; she has published "The Case for Collaborative Tools" in Spectrum and co-presented on Legal Research Podcasts at the 2008 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. She is currently developing an Advanced Legal Research distance learning class and a CALI lesson on Florida Secondary Sources.
 
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Ann Zeidman-Karpinski is science and technology services librarian and associate professor, University of Oregon.
 
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