Lori Delaney is Head Librarian at the Carolina Population Center (CPC), a research center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Delaney oversees all library operations, provides reference and research services, and provides guidance to CPC researchers on a variety of scholarly communications issues. She has been Treasurer of the Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers - International (APLIC International) since 2005. She has worked in many libraries since her first library-related job as an undergraduate applying call number labels to new acquisitions at the University of Minnesota, including the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs and the Center for Instructional Materials and Computing, the library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For four years prior to her joining CPC in 2005, she worked at IntraHealth (known as Intrah until 2003) as the Resource Center Manager. She received her MLIS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her BA degree in International Relations from the University of Minnesota.

Joann Donatiello is the Population Research Librarian at Stokes Library, Princeton University. Prior to her current position, she was the Information Specialist at the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University, where she started the library, and the Reference and Special Collections librarian at Monmouth University. Prior to her career in librarianship, she worked in market research in the United States and Europe, and is a trained focus group moderator. Joann holds an M.L.S from Rutgers University as well as an M.A. in political science. She is currently on the APLIC board.

Margaret Graham is Digital Resources Archivist for the Drexel University College of Medicine Archives where she provides access to paper-based and born-digital materials, and is looking for simple answers to long-term digital preservation. She designed and managed the construction of the digital collection, Women Physicians: 1850s-1970s, which provides virtual access to primary source documents on the history of women physicians. Margaret's current work builds on her previous career as a video producer and commercial photographer.

William (Bill) Lester is the Chief Information Officer and Director of Technology for EngenderHealth. A visionary in nonprofit use of ICT (particularly in low-resource settings), Bill is well-known in the nonprofit technology community, and is a popular speaker at many industry gatherings. Bill has been an NTEN board member for the past 6 years, participates on the advisory committees for NPOWER and KABISSA, and is a founding member of the NonProfit Organizations Knowledge Initiative (NPOKI).

Tara E. Murray is the Information Core Director for the Population Research Institute (PRI) at Penn State, where she oversees the Institute’s library and electronic data archive and develops publications and Web-accessible databases. She is president of APLIC-I, a past president of the SLA Central Pennsylvania Chapter, and program planning chair-elect for the SLA Social Science Division. She received her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and her B.A. with a concentration in German Studies from Bard College. Prior to joining the staff of the Population Research Institute, she was the library director for the Carnegie Library of Homestead in Munhall, Pennsylvania and a reference librarian at Duquesne University. She also publishes a blog, DIY Librarian.

Nykia M. Perez has been a member of APLIC-I since 2001. She is the Librarian, Webmaster, and Information & Dissemination Specialist for the University of Pennsylvania’s National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) funded Population Studies Center (PSC) in Philadelphia. As the manager of information and dissemination services at the PSC, Nykia manages all library operations and administers several reference, research, information, and technology training services at the PSC. Before joining the staff of the PSC she was an Information Professional Intern at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. Perez received her MLS degree from SUNY Buffalo in 2000 and her BFA with a concentration in Sociology from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1998. She was a recipient of the American Library Association’s Spectrum Initiative Scholarship in 1998. She has been working in libraries for over 11 years.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, is the author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) and The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004). Vaidhyanathan has written for many periodicals, including American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, MSNBC.COM, Salon.com, openDemocracy.net, and The Nation. After five years as a professional journalist, Vaidhyanathan earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison , Columbia University, and is currently an associate professor of Culture and Communication at New York University and a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities. He lives in Greenwich Village, USA.

Kate Wittenberg is Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC), where she directs the electronic publications Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), Columbia Earthscape, the Gutenberg-e online history project, Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching, and the Core Integration for the National Science Digital Library. She writes and speaks about scholarly communication and digital publishing.

Her work on partnerships and communities of users has parallels in APLIC-I’s history, beginning as a partnership of scholarly research centers and expanding to include donor organizations and non-profit and for-profit NGOs with the purpose of sharing and ensuring access to information.