Eric Arnold is a third year student at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, LA. His academic interests are in the current issues facing and future potential of virtual worlds as well as the conflicts between intellectual property and the First Amendment. After graduation from Tulane, Eric will be working with independent content creators - game developers, filmmakers, animators - on unique models of digital distribution to get their works to the public. Eric earned his B.S. in psychology from Sam Houston State University.

Ian Askew has been with the Population Council since 1990, based firstly in the Dakar office, and since 1992 in the Nairobi office. Ian is currently Director of the Population Council's Frontiers in Reproductive Health program (FRONTIERS), and has managed the Council's Operations Research program in sub-Saharan Africa since 1995; he also serves as the Council's Representative for the Nairobi office. Ian Askew has more than two decades of experience in undertaking reproductive health research, primarily in Africa but also in several Asian countries, with a particular focus on supporting results utilization by national RH programs. Before joining the Population Council, Askew was Deputy Director of the Institute of Population Studies at the University of Exeter, England, where he earned his doctorate in sociology.

Ellen Carnevale, Vice President of Communications and Marketing, Population Reference Bureau, is responsible for the management and strategic direction of PRB's print and online publications, Internet technologies, marketing and membership programs, and media and public relations. Prior to joining PRB in 1996, she held editorial and management positions with both private-sector and public-sector organizations, including the American Society for Training and Development, The Washington Post Company, the Graduate School USDA, the International City Management Association, and the University of Wisconsin. Her past experiences as a reporter and editor have been in the fields of occupational health and safety, workplace ergonomics, employee training and development, and family planning. She has also held positions as a women's reproductive health counselor and community educator, a counselor for people affected by alcoholism and drug addiction, a community educator in drug addiction, and a volunteer counselor with Planned Parenthood. She has a B.A. in social work from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and an M.S. in adult education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Rebecca Clark, Ph.D., is a program official in the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the major funder of social and behavioral research on population and one of the 27 Institutes that make up the National Institutes of Health. She oversees the Branch’s extramural portfolios on immigration, internal migration and population distribution, race and ethnicity, population and environment, and demographic methods. She manages the Population Research Infrastructure Program and the NICHD Mentored Population Research Scientist Development Award Program (K01) and co-manages the Branch's National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grants Program (T32). She recently completed terms as a Director and Vice President of the Southern Demographic Association.

Julia Cleaver earned her MLS at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been at Ipas in Chapel Hill, NC for the last 7 years. As manager of Information Services and the Resource Center, Julia and her staff serve as actual and virtual librarians for a staff of nearly 200 located in 14 offices worldwide, as well as numerous telecommuters and consultants. Julia joined APLIC-I in 1996 when she was the librarian for Intrah (now IntraHealth) and has served as president and been on the board for much of that time.

Peggy D’Adamo MLS, MSB. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Ms. D'Adamo was curator of a special collection of alternative press materials and editor of the Alternative Press Index. She has worked as a media specialist, reference librarian, and indexer. At CCP she was Librarian for the Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC) and Networking Manager for the INFO Project. She has conducted information training in Zambia, Morocco, Nigeria and Senegal. She has developed and provided support for a range of web sites including the INFO web site and the Implementing Best Practices in Reproductive Health Knowledge Gateway. She is currently Deputy Project Director of the INFO Project.

Yan Fu is the Information Resources Manager at the Population Studies Center of the University of Michigan, overseeing library operations to meet the information needs of researchers at the Population Studies Center and the Institute for Social Research. She has been an APLIC-I member since 2000, serving as a board member for some years. She was a co-editor of the Communicator from 2001-2005. Prior to her current position, she worked at the UM Taubman Medical Library, managing the interlibrary loan operations that provided lending services to peer institutions and hospitals and borrowing services to UM patrons at the medical, dental and public health schools. Yan received her MILS degree from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Joseph Keating is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health and Development in the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. His primary research interests focus on malaria, evaluation, and disease ecology in tropical and sub-tropical areas, particularly the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Keating has over 20 publications in peer-reviewed academic journals and 6 publications through the MEASURE Evaluation project. His publications are based on NIH, CDC, and USAID funded research projects in Kenya, Eritrea, Nigeria, and Haiti. His current research focuses on Anopheles mosquitoes and malaria in urban environments of sub-Saharan Africa; the evaluation of the COMPASS Project in Nigeria through MEASURE Evaluation; malaria in Haiti; and ITN use in Zambia. Dr. Keating completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Miami and holds a PhD in International Health from Tulane University, a Master’s degree in International Development Studies from Ohio University, and a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Marian College in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Steven L. MacCall, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies in the College of Communication and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. both in information science from the University of North Texas, where he studied under Dr. Ana Cleveland. He is currently actively involved in research and development projects related to future roles for health librarians spanning multiple dimensions, including software development for collaboratively managed clinical digital libraries and their integration into electronic health records, Web-publishing standards development, and library practices that support the use and archiving of "Web 2.0" tools, such as blogs, wikis and social networks, for clinical and consumer health populations. His publications may be found in the Journal of the Medical Library Association, Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, and Medical Reference Services Quarterly. He is the managing editor of the Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care and serves on the editorial board for the journal Biomedical Digital Libraries.

Mary Panke is Director of Knowledge Resourcing for Population Action International where she oversees library operations and manages an organization-wide Knowledge Management initiative. Before joining the staff at PAI, Mary was solo librarian for the Washington Office of the Electric Power Research Institute, Reference Librarian at the Environmental Protection Agency, and Internet Librarian for the United Nations Environment Programme. Mary received a BA in English Literature from Carleton College and an MLS from Columbia University. A past member of the APLIC-I Board, Mary has been a member since 2002.

Lori Rosman, works as a Health Sciences Librarian at Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library. She serves as a liaison librarian to various departments in the school of public health, school of medicine and the hospital. Prior to joining Welch Medical Library, Lori spent five years at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP) working in several different librarian/information management positions on projects primarily focusing on reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS prevention in developing countries. She has 8 years of experience as a public and academic research librarian. She was a 2007 recipient of the Sewell stipend to attend the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. Lori earned her Master of Library Science from the University of Maryland.

Margie Shiels earned her MLS at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been at Family Health International in Durham, NC for the last 11 years. As Director of Library Services, Margie and her staff serve as actual and virtual librarians for a staff of nearly 1500 located in over 70 countries. In addition to coordinating the efforts of her local librarians, Margie collaborates closely with her fellow FHI librarians in Arlington, VA and Nairobi, Kenya. Since 1996 Margie has been a member of APLIC-I. She has served the organization as a board member and an officer, including a term as president, for much of that time.