Sarah T. Roberts is assistant professor of information studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is internationally recognized as a leading scholar on the emerging topic of commercial content moderation of social media; her book on the topic, Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, is forthcoming in 2019 from Yale University Press. Professor Roberts is a 2018 Carnegie Fellow and a 2018 winner of the EFF Pioneer Award.
Tara Robertson is an intersectional feminist who uses data and research to advocate for equality and inclusion. She has more than 10 years experience making open source and tech communities more diverse and welcoming. Her core values are social justice, collaboration and all things open–open source, open access and open education. Her curiosity and delight in connecting people come together in person and online, where she can often be found asking good questions. Read more on her personal website.
Tammy Allgood Wolf is currently an Associate Librarian and Director of Discovery Services at Arizona State University Library for all 8 libraries on 5 campuses. She is responsible for providing leadership in the development, implementation, and assessment of policies, practices and technologies designed to enhance online strategy and discovery. Tammy currently manages the ASU Library Discovery Services development team and serves on the Arizona State University Web Standards Committee, the Digital Strategy Board, and the ASU Voice Search Task Force.
Librarian, programmer, data geek, comedian. Not necessarily in that order. Currently an Application Developer/Analyst at MIT Libraries.
As the Head of Special Collections & Archival Informatics, I build and direct the archival branch of the Montana State University (MSU) Library. In my work, I have focused on Semantic Web development, digital library development, metadata and data modeling, web services and APIs, search engine optimization, and interface design.
Kate Deibel is the Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian at Syracuse University Libraries in New York. She has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington but would much rather talk about web comics, chili peppers, technology adoption, and changing the world.
Jeff has been working for over a decade in metadata and digital initiatives, but is relatively new to the title of "librarian." He lives in Baltimore, calls DC his hometown, and has a lot of opinions about librarianship, technology, information, and also everything else.
Metadata/Systems Librarian at Mountain West Digital Library
Eric Hellman is Co-Founder and President of the Free Ebook Foundation. After 10 years doing physics research at Bell Labs, Eric got interested in electronic publishing, started an e-journal, started a company, built linking technology for libraries, sold that company to OCLC and worked there a few years, started blogging (at Go To Hellman), and then started working to make free ebooks work for libraries and everyone else. Eric has been raising awareness about "privacy leakage" in the internet services of libraries and scholarly publishers and has volunteered with the Library Freedom Project to promote encryption for library and publishing websites.
Emily Higgs is an NCSU Libraries Fellow at North Carolina State University. There, she works in the Special Collections Research Center on access and discovery for born-digital materials, and in Learning Spaces & Services on interactive library exhibits.
A creative leader with her roots in graphic design and sculpture, Bern Irizarry has built and led cross-disciplinary teams for over 20 years. She has researched and developed award-winning products and experiences for Fortune 500 companies and late stage startups as Founder and CEO of Velvet Hammer Design. Bern delights in combining the aesthetic with the usable and holds two patents in color selection methods. She also gives back to the UX community, heading the Los Angeles Ladies that UX Chapter.
Rhonda is the metadata librarian at MIT Libraries in Cambridge where she focuses on metadata things of any kind, heads up the Metadata Knowledge Series, and moonlights as a zine librarian and adjunct professor.
I am a Graduate Assistant at Minnesota State University, Mankato working in the Collection Management Technology group within Technical Services.
Dominique Luster, is a native of Kentucky transplanted to Pittsburgh and currently serves as the Teenie Harris Archivist at Carnegie Museum of Art. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky in Theatre Design and Technology, and an MLIS in Archives and Information Management Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She also studied at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany as a Fulbright scholar, but has sadly lost almost all of her German.
Jeff Mixter works as a software engineer at OCLC Research. His work focuses on linked data and digital humanities research. He holds Bachelor's Degrees in History and German from The Ohio State University as well as Master's Degrees in Library Information Science and Information Architecture/Knowledge Management from Kent State University.
Dre is Associate Head, User Experience at the NCSU Libraries. He thinks about systems. A lot.
As an Information Science PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jason led the creation of the field of altmetrics--coining the term, authoring the influential Altmetrics Manifesto, and leading the first altmetrics workshops. He left the doctoral program in 2013 to co-found Impactstory, a nonprofit that grew out of his dissertation work. Since then Impactstory has received funding from the US National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Arcadia Fund, and continues to work building software tools that promote the growth of open science. Jason’s latest project with Impactstory is Unpaywall, an open database of 20 million free-to-read scholarly papers used by millions of researchers and lay readers worldwide.
Veronica Ramshaw has worked at the American University of Sharjah ("it's next-door to Dubai") for over 4 years as the Web Services Librarian. She has previously worked at McGill, where she completed her Masters; at the CBC; and got her start in libraries at the Guelph Public Library.
Sarah Rice is an information architect with over two decades of strategy and consulting experience, designing and executing excellent user experiences for companies such as Google, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, eBay, Princess Cruises and Yahoo! She has a master's degree in Information Science and consults with a number of user experience firms. She served on the Board of Directors of the Information Architecture Institute, is active in the Information Architecture Conference (formerly the IA Summit). She also speaks regularly at industry conferences.
Carli Spina is the Head of Research and Instructional Services at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, an MLIS from Simmons GSLIS, and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She presents, teaches, and writes about Universal Design, accessibility, and technology in libraries. Most recently, she co-authored ARL's SPEC Kit 358: Accessibility and Universal Design and published an article on social media accessibility in Marketing Libraries Journal. She can be contacted on twitter as @CarliSpina.
Clara Turp is a metadata analyst librarian at McGill University Libraries. As part of the Collection Services, she proposes automated solutions to metadata challenges to improve access to electronic resources or simplify current processes. She also work with the library's authentication systems.
Tessa Walsh is a librarian, digital preservationist, and software developer employed as the Digital Preservation Librarian at Concordia University Library in Montreal, Canada. She is the developer of several open-source digital preservation utilities, including Brunnhilde, a reporting tool for disk images and directories of files, and Bulk Reviewer, an application for identifying and managing sensitive and confidential information in digital archives.
Hi. I'm Scott, a librarian and designer building a human-centered library at Montana State University.