Michael A. Arthur is the Acquisitions and Serials Librarian at Old Dominion University. Michael manages the Acquisitions, Serials and Preservation Units. He is a member of the North American Serials Interest Group. He has almost sixteen years of technical services experience in academic libraries.

Tim Bucknall is Assistant Director for Information Technologies at Jackson Library, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is chair of the NC LIVE Web Advisory Committee and one of the inventors of Journal Finder and the first OpenURL link resolver to go into production in the United States. He is also the facilitator of the newly created Carolina Consortium.

Hilary Davis is an NCSU Libraries Fellow and Collection Manager for Physical and Mathematical Sciences. She holds an MLS from University of Missouri-Columbia and an MS in Biology from University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is a member of SLA's Research Now Task Force, serves as botany selector for the NSDL, and co-developer of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website hosted by the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Yvette Diven is Director of Serials Product Development at CSA and a frequent participant and presenter at serials conferences and industry meetings. Her focus is on developing products and services for library professionals and library patrons, to enhance information search, discovery, and use. Yvette is currently a member of the ISSN Standards Revision Working Group (ISO/TC46/SC9/WG5).

Dianne Ford has been Coordinator of Serials and Government Documents at Elon University since 2002 and was winner of the ALCTS "First Step Award" (Wiley Professional Development Grant) in 2003. In addition to serials and docs work, her primary library interest is providing reference, collection development, and library instruction in the sciences. Librarianship is Dianne's 4th and final career, following extended stints as a cell biologist, fiber artist, and horticulturist working with native plants.

David Goble is Dean of Libraries at Central Piedmont Community College. He earned a BA Degree in English from The Citadel, an MA in American Literature from the University of South Carolina, and an MLIS from UNC Chapel Hill. David is active professionally and is currently co chair of the NCLA Endowment Committee, chair of the North Carolina Council of Community College Library Administrators, and treasurer of the National Association of Learning Resources. He also serves on NCLA's Public Policy Committee. Recently he was appointed vice chair/chair elect of the Board of Visitors for UNC -CH School of Information and Library Science; in that capacity he is also serving as the chair of the schools 75th Anniversary Planning Committee. David is a recovering ex-banker and a former Marine Officer.

Tonia Graves is the Electronic Resources Cataloger at Old Dominion University. In her position she collaborates extensively with both the Serials and Cataloging units of the Bibliographic Services Department. Tonia is a member of the North American Serials Interest Group and has presented a poster session on the maintenance of broken links in a library OPAC at the 2003 LITA National Forum.

José-Marie Griffiths is the Dean of the School of Information and Library Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Griffiths has a research and leadership career that spans over 30 years. She was previously the Doreen E. Boyce Chair and Professor in the School of Information Sciences, Director of the Sara Fine Institute for Interpersonal Behavior and Technology, and Associate of the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She also held the positions of Chief Information Officer, Executive Director of Information Technology, and Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. As CIO, she had strategic and operational responsibility for the University's information technology activities totaling over $200 million in annual expenditures. She served in several capacities at the University of Tennessee including Professor and Oak Ridge National Laboratories Collaborating Scientist, Director of the School of Information Sciences, and Vice Chancellor for Information Infrastructure. Dr. Griffiths has had presidential appointments with the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and served on a number of blue ribbon panels and committees (for the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, Department of Energy, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Navy, etc). She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, named one of the Top 25 Women of the Web, and received the American Society for Information Science and Technology's Award of Merit and Research Award. She has a B.Sc. in Physics and Ph.D. in Information Science from University College London.

After completing her MSLS degree at UNC Chapel Hill in 2004, Rebecca Kemp became the Electronic Resources / Serials Librarian at UNC Wilmington, where she manages access to online and print titles, serves on several library committees, and researches the Open Access movement and institutional repositories. She will also serve as the Serials Interest Group Chair for the Resources and Technical Services Section of NCLA.

After a decade as Executive Director of NELINET, the largest library organization in New England, Marshall Keys founded MDA Consulting to pursue his interest in the effects of large-scale social, economic, political, and technological change on libraries and other information-intensive organizations. He encourages librarians to think strategically by serving as a facilitator in their planning processes and by demonstrating and teaching the art of environmental scanning. Marshall holds a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt and a Master's in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His many honors include being named, in July, 2000, to the National Advocacy Honor Roll by the Association of Library Trustees and Advocates. The citation said, "Each time you listen to Marshall speak or read a column he wrote, you are challenged, energized, and proud to serve in the library profession."

John Kiplinger holds a BA and MLS from the University of Michigan and worked as JSTOR's first student employee while getting his Master's degree. John previously also worked for seven years in the University of Michigan Libraries and then as Serials Librarian at Wright State University before coming back to Ann Arbor, Michigan and JSTOR Production Services in 1998 where he has been happily and busily occupied ever since.

Linda Martinez has been the Head of the Vesic Library for Engineering, Mathematics and Physics at Duke University for the past 10 years. From 1986 to 1996, she was the Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and Core Competencies Librarian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Linda received a B.A. from Tufts University, an MLS from Simmons College and an MEd from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

Denise Novak is the Head of Acquisitions for the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon she was head of Acquisitions and Collection Development at the University of Evansville in Evansville, IN. Her previously held positions were at the Fort Worth Public Library, Fort Worth, TX and the Louisville Free Public Library in Louisville, KY. She is the former treasurer of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) and has served on committees and task forces of several professional library organizations. In May 2006, she will become President of NASIG. She received her BA from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL and an MLS from Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX.

Irene Owens has been an Elementary School Teacher, a Classification Record Assistant at the Library of Congress, and has held several positions at Howard University in Washington, D.C., including Director of the Consciousness IV Undergraduate Library Project (funded by the Council on Library Resources), Head of the Reference Department, and a Branch Librarian. She has served as a Consultant in several capacities, including the Triangle Research Libraries Network (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University and North Carolina State University), the U.S. Office of Education funded Library Evaluation Project with Tribal Librarians, conducted in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin, and for the U.S. Embassy in South Africa. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an Outstanding Service Award from Howard University, the Texas Excellence in Teaching Award, and is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. She is also a Junior Fellow in British Studies and a Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Owens has published widely, including entries in the International Information and Library Review, College and Research Libraries, the Bulletin of the American Society of Information Science (ASIS), the Journal of Management, the Journal of Library Administration, and Library Management. She is the editor of Acquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities.

Dr. Robert Sanders coordinates the Appalachian State University Library Science program, which is housed in the Reich College of Education. Prior to coming to Appalachian State, Dr. Sanders was the Director of Distance Education for the Southwest Ohio Regional Distance Learning Network and more recently served as the President of para instructional designs, an e-Learning design company based in Cincinnati, OH. He has also worked as a high school teacher and media coordinator. These roles have provided him with numerous opportunities to explore applications of various information and instructional technologies and the impact of these technologies on student and patron behaviors, perspectives, and interactions. Dr. Sanders' current research is focused on library students' presentation of "self" in virtual learning communities.

Lee Shiflett has been chair of the Department of Library and Information Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2001. Prior to coming to North Carolina, he was a member of the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University from 1979 to 2001. He holds a PhD from Florida State University and the MLS from Rutgers University. He is the author of two historical studies, The Origins of American Academic Librarianship and Louis Shores: Defining Educational Librarianship.

John Vickery is Collection Manager for Management and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University Libraries. He earned his MSLS from UNC Chapel Hill where he received a two-year fellowship appointment as a Carolina Academic Library Associate. He currently serves on the ALCTS Administration of Collection Development Committee.

Since 2003, Randall Watts has served as Technical Services Librarian at Gregg-Graniteville Library (University of South Carolina at Aiken), overseeing collection development, acquisitions, and processing. Previously, he held a similar position at University of Arkansas Monticello. He has an MSLS from University of Kentucky and an M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Kathy Winslow has been Director of the Library at North Carolina Wesleyan College since 1997. At NC Wesleyan, Kathy is working on plans for a library addition/renovation project, so she has been studying the impact of technology on library facilities and services. Kathy received her MSLS from UNC-Chapel Hill and her MBA from the University of Florida.

For further information contact Cheryl Reddish at NCCU: 919-530-6415 (voice) or 919-530-6402 (fax) or creddish@wpo.nccu.edu