Since April 2012, George has been the Executive Director at the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. Before that he was the Interim Executive Director, Associate Director and Technical Coordinator at the Alliance where he has worked since 1993. Some specific areas in which George has been involved during his time at the Alliance include the deployment of the Prospector regional union catalog (http://www.coalliance.org/prospector), the development of an electronic resource management system and link resolver called Gold Rush (http://goldrush.coalliance.org), involvement with a consortial digital repository project and cooperative purchasing of electronic resources. Previously he was head of systems at Arizona State University (ASU) Libraries from 1987-1993 and before that was a reference librarian and head of the Solar Energy Collection at ASU. George is the managing editor for The Charleston Advisor (http://charlestonco.com), a peer reviewed journal which provides in-depth reviews of products and services for libraries as well as monitoring trends in the library and information marketplace. He has published many articles and book chapters relating to digital libraries.

Heidi Nance is Head of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA, Conference Chair for the Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing Conference, the 2012-3 Chair of the Orbis-Cascade Alliance Summit Planning and Operations Team, and co-author of“Global Resource Sharing” published by Chandos Press in 2009. Heidi received her Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Washington’s Information School, and her BA from Seattle Pacific University in English literature. Her interests include international interlibrary loan, time management, change management, and organizational efficiencies. She lives in Seattle with her fiance, son, and two misbehaving cats.

Teri Switzer is the dean of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Academic Library.

Kristen Race is the founder of Mindful Life, which provides brain-based solutions for schools, businesses, children, and families as they try to become more resilient to modern day stressors. Her products and services are rooted in the science of the brain with influences from the fields of mindfulness and positive psychology, designed to improve brain function and brain development in adults and children. Race has spoken nationally at the National Association of School Psychologists Conference and the International Scientific Conference for Clinicians, Researchers and Educators, as well as in local communities across the country and has appeared on many television news programs, providing parent education on topics ranging from bedtime battles to sibling rivalry. Race created and developed a unique method for teaching mindfulness skills to children and trains teachers nationwide in the program, called the Mindful Life Schools Program. The program is currently being used in schools around the country. Race has also discovered that the foundation of her work with children transfers to business leaders, executive teams, and athletes looking to perform their best by reducing stress and increasing focus. Race received her doctorate and master’s degrees from the University of Denver, and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado. She currently resides in Steamboat Springs, Colorado where she can be found mountain biking, hiking, playing soccer, and chasing her kids down the ski mountain!

 

Lars is the Resource Sharing Librarian and Head of Organizational Development at the University of Kansas Libraries. He continues to be involved with resource sharing as he collaborates with other leaders in the newly combined Acquisitions and Resource Sharing Department. So plenty of data, assessment, technology, and other means of helping this blended department. He also helps provide and support others in a variety of library staff and organization development needs from facilitation, project management, to the Strengths concept, mindfulness (thank you Colorado ILL Conference), and more.

 

Lars’ research interests involve values our patrons place on our services, assessment, and various types of organizational development. In fact, a forthcoming research project will merge the values work and identification of the type of training staff need to support what patrons’ highly value.  Creativity and innovation are vital components of much of his research interests.

 

Lars has a number of published articles but really loves to engage with others through presentations. He has presented in the state of Kansas, the Colorado ILL Conference,  Northwest ILL Conference, IDS Annual Conference, various conferences inTexas, Wisconsin, and other places in the US. He has also presented internationally in Sweden, Bulgaria, and Iceland.

 

If you want to include any personal items, feel free to:

• Life-long Kansan so several memorable family trips to “Colorful Colorado”.
• Married to a wonderful lady who is a special education teacher
• We have two wonderful daughters and two awesome cats (wonderful and awesome about 98% of the time)!
• Loves to travel when he has time and money. So library conferences, especially ones in amazing places like the Colorado ILL Conference, helps quench the travel thirst.

Katie Birch is Portfolio Director for Delivery Services at OCLC. In this capacity, Katie oversees WorldCat Resource Sharing, including the WorldCat policies directory and IFM, as well as ILLiad, VDX and WorldCat Navigator. Katie is a librarian with 10 years experience in resource sharing and document delivery. Before joining OCLC in 2005, Katie was project manager and business development manager at Talis.
Katie is available to speak on the many aspects of library delivery services.