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).

Sandy Hudock is the Head of Public Services at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She started there as the Interlibrary Loan Librarian and continues to assist as needed, believing it is the most rewarding service the library provides. Her father was a construction worker in the New York City area, and worked across the street from the World Trade Towers as they were being built. She is used to being on and around construction sites. Sandy has an MLIS from the University of Kentucky and an MA in English from Colorado State University.

I am a native of Ponca City, Oklahoma. After graduation from Ponca City High School, I attended Oklahoma State University, graduating with a degree in Elementary Education. I also have a Masters in Library Science from Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas. After an odyssey that started in Oklahoma and went to Texas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, I came home to Colorado and a job that I love. I am now the director of the Wellington Public Library, in Wellington, Colorado. I have had a varied career working in libraries. I worked for the Poudre School System in Fort Collins, Colorado for ten years. Five of those years were spent as a media assistant at two different high schools. I then spent four years working in Iola, Kansas, for the Iola Public Library and the Southeast Kansas Library System. I have served on the ASCC (Automation System Colorado Consortium) Board and am on the AspenCat Cataloging Committee.