Dr. Maria McCauley is the Director of Libraries for the City of Cambridge. She was formerly the Director of Libraries in Santa Monica, California, and in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is currently president-elect of the Public Library Association and a class of 1999 ALA Spectrum Scholar. Dr. McCauley’s research has focused on entrepreneurial leadership in libraries and service to diverse populations.

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as affiliate faculty in the School of Information Sciences and Center for Global Studies. See: https://lisahinchliffe.com 

Rachel Caldwell is Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Tennessee (UT) Knoxville, where she contributes to open access investment decision-making, manages the open access journal publishing partnership program VOL Journals, answers questions on copyright and publication ethics, and leads efforts in open educational resources. Rachel earned her BA and dual MIS/MLS from Indiana University Bloomington and has worked in libraries and museums as an instruction librarian, reference assistant, and conservation technician. Library Partnership certification, which she’s speaking about at ER&L, updates an earlier, provisional scoring system called PAPPI (Publishers Acting as Partners with Public Institutions).

Sara Belmont is the Web Developer at William & Mary Libraries and specializes in creating accessible websites and content. She has over twenty years of experience in the design, architecture, and programming of websites and multimedia applications. A strong proponent of user-centered design, she became personally interested in digital accessibility in 2017 and strives to educate others in how they can ensure their work is accessible to all. She co-chairs the Library Accessibility Alliance as well as the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries’ accessibility initiatives.

Katy DiVittorio (she/her) is the Head of Collections Strategies at Auraria Library in Denver, CO. Her professional interests include ethical financial stewardship, LIS mentorship and interlibrary loan for new and expanding online resources. She led the creation of SILLVR (Streaming InterLibrary Loan Video Resources), which allows ILL for streaming videos. She is currently a NASIG Executive Board Member and Co-Chair of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Shared Collection Development Committee.

Lorelle Gianelli (she/her) works in Collections Strategies at Auraria Library in Denver, Colorado. Lorelle is an active member of the Library Freedom Project and contributes to EDI initiatives in her library and community. She is an advocate for user privacy, criminal justice reform, and ethical financial stewardship. Lorelle holds a MILS from SUNY Buffalo and a MA in Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Scarlet Galvan is Area Lead for Assessment and Planning and Collection Strategist Librarian for Grand Valley State University Libraries. At GVSU she develops and leads efforts toward an equity-centered, sustainable collection. Her research focuses on the sociopolitical aspects of library services platforms. Scarlet currently serves on the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Steering Committee and can be found wherever systems thinkers and advocates for practitioners gather.

Charlotte Roh is a Reference and Instruction Librarian at the California State University of San Marcos. Her work is based on the intersection of social justice, information literacy, and scholarly communication, and is informed by a background in academic publishing. She is currently a board member with the Society for Scholarly Publishing and working on the Library Publishing Coalition’s ethical framework task force.