Randy Dykhuis is Executive Director of the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services, a nonprofit, membership organization that provides libraries in Michigan and Indiana with a convenient, single point of contact for training, group purchasing and technical support for electronic resources. He has held that position since February 2010. Prior to that, he was Executive Director for the Michigan Library Consortium, a position he held from August 1995 through February 2010. During his tenure at MLC Dykhuis worked with the Library of Michigan, individual Michigan libraries, and other library associations to implement a number of innovative statewide projects including the Michigan eLibrary and MeLCat, a statewide resource sharing system. With almost 410 participating libraries and more than 1,000,000 loan requests in 2011, MeLCat is one of the largest resource sharing projects in the country.

Prior to joining MLC, Dykhuis served as director of OCLC services at OHIONET in Columbus, Ohio and worked as senior marketing representative at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio. His experience in public libraries includes stints at Grand Rapids (MI) Public Library and Grace A. Dow Memorial Library in Midland, Michigan. Dykhuis received his Masters in Library Science from Wayne State University and his Bachelor of Science degree from Central Michigan University.

Bill Barnes by Gene Ambaum
Bill Barnes loves librarians, show tunes, and meat. He can count his toes without taking off his shoes. Over the past eight years, he has tried to convince Gene that the meaning of “partnership” is doing what he says 99% of the time. He can often be seen wandering the floor at trade shows playing “The Final Countdown” on his ukulele Death Adder. In his spare time he draws Unshelved and writes a comic about the software industry, Not Invented Here. Follow @billba.

Gene Ambaum by Bill Barnes

Gene Ambaum uses a pen name because he’s scared of his own shadow. He is so good at making fun of strange, difficult customers in Unshelved because he is the strangest, most difficult customer of all. He taught English overseas because no one there was in a position to criticize his spelling. If he ever starts another comic strip it will be about poop, because that’s what he spends most of his time thinking about. Follow @ambaum.

 

 

Russell Palmer is the Supervisor of Professional Development at LYRASIS. He writes, teaches and speaks on a wide range of topics, including resource sharing, information services, collection development and information literacy. Russell previously worked as Instruction and Outreach Coordinator at Mercer University. He earned his MLIS at Florida State University, and his AB in English at the University of Georgia.

Chris Steele has worked at Regis University for 5 years.  He is a lead worker for their interlibrary loan and reserves department.  He is a graduate student at Regis University and has a bachelor’s degree in English and Peace and Social Justice.  He is also a journalist and musician.

Greg Doyle has been the Electronic Resources Program Manager for the Orbis Cascade Alliance since 2004.  He coordinates over 100 database subscriptions and multiple ejournal packages on behalf of over 100 participating libraries.  Greg is also the staff liaison to the Alliance Collection Development and Management Committee.  The CDMC is the sponsor of the Alliance Demand Driven Acquisitions Pilot.  The Pilot began in July 2011 and is funded through June 30, 2012.  The DDA Pilot provides access to over 13,000 titles for the Alliance member libraries.
The CDMC also created a print repository of JSTOR and ACS titles that are distributed in various member libraries.

Greg has a MLS from the University of Oregon and BA from Humboldt State University.  Before joining Orbis Cascade, Greg was the Electronic Resources Librarian for the Multnomah County Library and worked for OCLC as a Network Coordinator and Account Representative.

Rochelle Logan has been the Associate Director of Support Services at Douglas County Libraries (DCL) since 2001. In her role at DCL, she oversees management of Collection Services (which includes ILL), Bibliographic Services, the Literacy Department and the Douglas County History Research Center. Rochelle is a past president of the Colorado Association of Libraries and was recently elected to the Colorado Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA) Board of Trustees.
She received her graduate degree from the University of Denver Library and Information Sciences program and her Bachelors of Business Administration from Texas Tech University. Rochelle’s husband since 1977, Tom is a United Airlines pilot. They have two married daughters.

David Hansen is the Digital Library Fellow at UC Berkeley School of Law. This position was created specifically to assist in the research outputs of the Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project, which aims to investigate copyright obstacles faced by libraries and other like-minded organizations in their efforts to realize the full potential of present and future digital library initiatives. David joined the Digital Library Copyright Project in September 2011. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked in the Office of Scholarly Communications at Duke University Libraries. While there he worked on numerous open access and library copyright issues. He has also spent time in many law library settings, most recent at UNC School of Law, and at North Carolina Central University School of Law.

Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (M.S.L.S., pending – May 2012; J.D., magna cum laude); University of North Carolina at Charlotte (B.S. Economics, magna cum laude).
Member: North Carolina State Bar, American Library Association, American Association of Law Libraries (and Southeastern Chapter).

Recent publications include:

Orphan Works: Definitional Issues (White Paper No. 1, Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project 2011), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974614.

A State Law Approach to Preserving Fair Use in Academic Libraries, 22 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP., MEDIA & ENT. L.J. 1 (2011), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1910957.

Copyright Policy and Practice in ARL Libraries’ Electronic Reserves: A Survey, 73 COLL. & RES. LIBRS. (forthcoming 2012), available at http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2011/11/29/crl-313.

Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Elsevier, based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Mark joined the Elsevier science and medical publishing division (http://www.elsevier.com) of Reed Elsevier in 1995 as General Counsel (previously with Reed Elsevier USA Legal Department from 1989-1995).  Leads organization of 16 lawyers (Europe, the US and Singapore).  Principal responsibilities:  copyright policy and enforcement, corporate organization and compliance, M&A.

Education: Thomas Jefferson College, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA (B.Ph, Literature); Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Mass., USA (J.D., cum laude).   Member, Massachusetts and New York bars.

Chair, Copyright & Legal Affairs Committee, International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (http://www.stm-assoc.org).  Member, Copyright Committee, Association of American Publishers.

Regular contributor to STM association papers on copyright issues and best practices guidelines for research journal publishing, including:

• STM-FEP-EC Memorandum of Understanding on “Out of Commerce” works (2011) http://www.stm-assoc.org/industry-news/stm-association-signs-out-of-commerce-memorandum-of-understanding-mou/
• STM Statement on document delivery and interlibrary loan (2011) http://www.stm-assoc.org/2011_06_08_STM_Statement_Document_Delivery.pdf
• STM Statement on subscription license negotiations and journal publishing agreements (2011) http://www.stm-assoc.org/2011_04_19_STM_statement_on_licensing_and_authors_rights.pdf

Co-author:  chapter on copyright & other legal issues in academic publishing, Academic & Professional Publishing (Campbell, Pentz & Borthwick, editors), Chandos Publishing (2012);  contributor:  “Copyright Protection in the USA”, Publishing Law, 3^rd Edition (2006) and 4^th edition (2011), Hugh Jones and Christopher Benson, Routledge

 Recent speeches/presentations:

• “Copyright in the digital age: creative industries vs technology?,” East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, October 2011
• “Elsevier and the publisher’s role in supporting publishing ethics,” University of Maryland conference on publishing ethics, October 2011
• Panel, “Beyond Licensing” at Suffolk University Law School, Boston, November 2010 (co-sponsored by CCC)
• Panel, “The Digital Marketplace after the Google Settlement” at the International Publishers Association Copyright Seminar (Abu Dhabi, February 2010)
• “Open Access to Scholarly Publications,” February 2010, Columbia Law School (with Kenneth Crews from Columbia)

Rose Nelson has been a Systems Librarian at the CO Alliance of Research for the last six years. She helps to maintain both Gold Rush, an electronic resource management system that is licensed to over 60 libraries and also the Prospector union catalog which includes 41 libraries.

She received her MLS degree from Emporia State University and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has been Chair of the CO Interlibrary Loan Committee for the last two years. She is a member of CAL and the MPLA library associations. She is also a third generation Colorado native.  On her free time she enjoys reading, running and traveling.

Mindy White has an MLS from Indiana University in Bloomington, 1997. She has been the Library Director at the Colorado Mountain College Quigley Library since 2000, and also worked at the Three Rivers Library District in Glenwood Springs, and at the Farmington (NM) Public Library. Mindy serves on the CLiC Board and acts as the CMC Campus H.R. Liaison.

Dana Von Berg works for the University of Arizona Main Library in Tucson, AZ in the area of Interlibrary Loan. She handles difficult ILL requests and enjoys the challenge. Dana has a M.A. in Library Science and a graduate certificate in Digital Information Management from the University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS).

As Duke University’s first Scholarly Communications Officer, Kevin Smith’s principal role is to teach and advise faculty, administrators and students about copyright, intellectual property licensing and scholarly publishing. Kevin began his academic career with graduate studies in theology at Yale University and the University of Chicago, and then decided to move into library work. He holds a Masters of Library Science from Kent State University and has worked as an academic librarian in both liberal arts colleges and specialized theological libraries. His strong interest in copyright law began in library school and he received a law degree from Capital University in 2005. Before moving to Duke in 2006, Kevin served as the Director of the Pilgrim Library at Defiance College in Ohio, where he also taught Constitutional Law. He is admitted to the bar in Ohio and North Carolina. Kevin serves on the Intellectual Property Board and the Provost’s Digital Futures Task Force at Duke, as well as on the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Scholarly Communications Committee and the faculty of the Association of Research Libraries’ Institute on Scholarly Communications. He has written several articles on copyright issues in higher education, and maintains a highly-regarded web log on scholarly communications (http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/) that discusses copyright and publication in academia. He is a frequent speaker on those topics.

Jim Minges has more than 35 years of experience in regional and statewide library development, consulting, and resource sharing services. He has served as Director of the Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) since 1996. In 2003 NEKLS created NExpress, the first regional shared library automation system in Kansas, utilizing The Sirsi Unicorn automation platform. In 2008 NExpress migrated to the Koha open source ILS platform, and began a substantial expansion to the current 33 participating libraries. In 2002, he led implementation of a regional library courier service in Northeast Kansas. From 2006 to 2009 he led the planning and development of the statewide courier service, Kansas Library Express. In 2011 Blue Sky Express began service, linking the Kansas and Colorado courier services.

As the Access Services Librarian, Bethany leads the Access Services Team of the Penrose Library at the University of Denver, which includes Circulation, InterLibrary Loan, Reserves, Stacks Maintenance and Digital Production Services. She is also the current secretary for the Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).