Martin Garnar is the head of reference and instruction for the Dayton Memorial Library at Regis University (Denver, CO), where he holds the rank of Professor of Library Science.  Since 2005, he has taught professional principles and ethical issues for the University of Denver’s LIS program.  Martin has been appointed to his 4th consecutive year as the chair of the American Library Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics, is the incoming chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Committee on Professional Values, and has previously served as a member and chair of the ALA and Colorado Intellectual Freedom Committees.  A frequent speaker at state, regional, and national events, Martin’s presentations combine expertise, practical advice, and a healthy dash of humor.

James Hagadorn is currently the Tim and Kathryn Ryan Curator of Geology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  Although originally hailing from California he has been fortunate to have also lived in Pennsylvania, Montana, Massachusetts and Texas. Everything about “deep time” fascinates him, and he has spent the last twenty years studying modern and ancient environments all over the world.  Much of his research has focused on the latest part of the Precambrian (700-542 million years ago) and the early parts of the Paleozoic (542-450 million years ago), intervals of time that witnessed some of the most profound changes in environments and biota in all of earth history.  Through fieldwork, labwork, and collaboration with academic and citizen scientists, he has studied ancient sedimentary environments, large volcanic deposits, extinct soft-bodied fossils, trace fossils, bizarre microbial structures, and a variety of enigmatic ‘whatsits’.  Although this work contributes to improving our understanding of ancient earth systems, Hagadorn is cognizant of the need to leverage our understanding of ancient earth to better understand future earths.  In particular, how will our earth  change in the future, as a result of human activities?

Clare MacKeigan is Chief Operating Officer at Relais International

Bio:
‒ Currently Chief Operating Officer and one of the owners of Relais International
‒ Previously worked for over 15 years in the Document Delivery section of CISTI
‒ Member of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Interoperability Group
‒ Co-editor of ISO 18626, a new standard for ILL transactions
‒ Member of RUSA STARS Vendor Relations Committee

Molly Murphy has been the Document Delivery Librarian at the University of Oklahoma since 1998.
Molly served in the capacity of ILL Lender, ILL Borrower, and ILL office manager prior to her current position as Document Delivery Librarian.
She has been riding a bicycle since 1967.

 

Thomas Napierkowski is Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. His area of specialization is medieval English literature, with particular emphasis on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and of the fifteenth century. As part of his responsibilities, Professor Napierkowski regularly teaches courses in these areas. His research includes work on an edition of spurious Canterbury Tales, a study of authorial presence in the Canterbury Tales, and a critical edition of semi-dramatic poems of the fifteenth century.

Professor Napierkowski has also worked and published in the fields of minority American literature and Slavic literature. His essay “Stepchild of American” was co-winner of a national contest.  In January of 2011, Professor Napierkowski was appointed to a five-year term on the Fulbright Specialist Roster and in 2012 completed a Fulbright Specialist appointment in Romania.

Professor Napierkowski is a member of the Medieval Academy of America, the Early English Text Society of Oxford, and the New Chaucer Society and is currently president of the Polish American Historical Association.

Robert Sackett is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where he joined the faculty in 1982.

Professor Sackett’s specialty is the History of Modern Europe, with emphasis on Germany. He is the author of Popular Entertainment, Class and Politics in Munich 1900-1923 (Harvard U Pr, 1982) and of several articles dealing with German culture in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries. Of special significance in his teaching and research are connections between history and literature or history and film.

 

 

David Whitehair and his group manage many of OCLC’s cataloging and metadata services including OCLC WorldShare Metadata, Connexion, WorldCat Selection, and more. David has been with OCLC for over 20 years. His library career began when he was a freshman at Ohio State University where he worked in the acquisitions department of the library. He received a BS in education from Ohio State University and received an MLS from Kent State University.

David is available to speak on topics related to cataloging efficiencies, the future of cataloging, and the new WorldShare Metadata service.