Speakers

Technology for the Rest of Us:

What Every Librarian Should Understand about the Technologies that Affect Us

"Networking" Speaker: Robert E. Molyneux is Director, Statistics and Surveys, U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and author of The Internet Under the Hood: An Introduction to Network Technologies for Information Professionals.

"Wireless Networking" Speaker: Wilfred (Bill) Drew, Jr., is a Systems/Reference Librarian at Morrisville College Library, Morrisville, N.Y. and owner of "The Wireless Librarian" website. He has taught and written extensively on using the Internet, World Wide Web, and WLANs in libraries in such publications as the Journal of Academic Librarianship and Library Journal's netConnect. He is the author of "Not Just Cows" and is the Web master of the Morrisville LibraryLinks Web site. Bill currently chairs the SUNY ALEPH Users Group, is a recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship, and is a past president of SUNYLA (SUNY Librarians Association). He earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University, and his master's in Library Science from Drexel University's College of Information Studies and Technology. While at Drexel, he served as an intern at PALINET.

"OpenURL" Speaker: Walt Crawford is a senior analyst at RLG in Mountain View, California. Crawford has been a full-time professional in library automation since 1968, at RLG since 1979. He is currently lead designer for Eureka, RLG's end-user search service, and OpenURL analyst. Crawford writes "The Crawford Files" in American Libraries, the "disContent" column in EContent Magazine, and the "PC Monitor" column in Online Magazine. He also writes and publishes Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, a Web-distributed print zine, which began in December 2000. His most recent book is First Have Something to Say: Writing for the Library Profession (ALA Editions, 2003).

"Internet2: Implications for Libraries" Speaker: Thomas J. Lynch III, Vice President for Information Technology and CIO, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Lynch is responsible for academic, high performance and administrative computing; networking; an Internet2 GigaPoP; telecommunications; technology helpdesk and technical training; the Academic Technology Center; the Advanced Distance Learning Network; and the Gordon Library. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and both a Master’s Degree and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"Security" Speaker: Peter Murray is the Assistant to the Director for Technology Initiatives at the University of Connecticut Libraries.  He received a MLIS from Simmons College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Analysis from Miami University.  In 1999, Peter was awarded the "Highly Commended Award" by MCB University Press for his article "World Wide Web Technologies in CWRU Libraries," published in New Library World, and in 2001 was awarded the first LITA/Endeavor Student Writing award for his article "Library Web Proxy Use Survey Results," published in LITA’s Information Technology and Libraries.  He served as Chair of the Innovative Users Group from 1999 to 2000, and is currently chair of the LITA Regional Institutes committee.

"XML" Speaker: Ron Gilmour is the Science and Technology Coordinator at the John C. Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and author of XML: A Guide for Librarians.. He received his MLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also earned an MS in biology. His recent work includes experimenting with methods of serving XML-encoded data and ways to use XML to represent biological systematic information.

"Open Archives Initiative Protocol" Speaker: Sarah Shreeves is the Project Coordinator for the IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project (DCC) based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her experience with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting is grounded in both the IMLS DCC project and the Mellon funded OAI Metadata Harvesting Project (2001-2002) at UIUC where she worked as a graduate assistant and project coordinator. Prior to coming to UIUC, Sarah worked for nine years in the MIT Libraries in Boston. In 2000-2001 she was project manager for the MIT Libraries' transition from a GEAC library management system to the ALEPH 500 Ex Libris system. She has a BA in Medieval Studies from Bryn Mawr, an M.A. in Children’s Literature from Simmons College, and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from UIUC.

"Institutional Repositories" Speakers: MacKenzie Smith is the Associate Director for Technology at the MIT Libraries where she oversees the Libraries' use of technology and its digital library research program. She is currently acting as the project director for DSpace, MIT's collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Labs to develop an open source Institutional Repository for scholarly research material in digital formats. She was formerly the Digital Library Program Manager in the Harvard University Library's Office for Information Systems where she managed the design and implementation of the Library Digital Initiative there, and has also held positions in the library IT departments at Harvard and the University of Chicago. Her background and research interests are in applied technology in libraries and academia, and digital libraries in particular. Charly Bauer is Assistant Director of Library Systems - Multi-media Databases, at the Ohio Library and Information Network in Columbus, Ohio. He manages OhioLINK's Digital Resource Commons, and other statewide image, audio, and video initiatives. He has 9 years of experience with digital content management projects for libraries and other academic departments.