Alison Aldrich is a health sciences reference librarian at Wright State University. She also serves on the Libraries' web team. Alison has a Master of Science in Information degree from the University of Michigan and is pursuing a degree in public health at Wright State.

Vishwam Annam is working as a web developer at Wright State University Libraries. He is involved in programming, researching and teaching in academic libraries for more than six years. He has received Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Western KY University.

Vishwam is interested in investigating the way library users interact with information technology, both as they affect technological development and as they are affected by technology. As a teacher of archival technologies and information literacy, he is interested in understanding how users make sense of the information they find. To that end he is also interested in Human Computer Interaction from a design standpoint and hopes that his work will be of use to software engineers, Librarians, and Web designers.

Marty Courtois has worked as a reference and instruction librarian at California State University - Long Beach and University of Illinois at Chicago, and served as head of reference at Illinois Institute of Technology. At Michigan State University, he worked as a science librarian and coordinator of database services. He served as biological sciences librarian at University of Tennessee. At George Washington University, Marty worked as the engineering/computer science librarian and as web development librarian. At GW, and in his current role as computer information specialist at Kansas State University, Marty has been involved in designing and conducting web usability tests.

Nora Dimmock is Media Librarian at the River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.

Robert Fox is a Sr. Programmer / Analyst for the University Libraries of Notre Dame and works for Eric Morgan in the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department. Rob has been working in library systems administration and programming positions since 1998. In his current position, he has worked on a range of digital library projects which include campus portal syndication of library content, a virtual new acquisitions service, page turner software, and the Perl modules for MyLibrary 3.0, and is a columnist for the journal 'OCLC Systems and Services' published by Emerald. Rob is also an Oracle OCP and one of his favorite topics is database programming and design.

Terry Huttenlock is an Assistant Professor of Library Science and the Head of Systems and Technological Services for Buswell Library at Wheaton College, Wheaton Illinois. She worked for fifteen years as a computer systems analyst in corporate before deciding to change careers and return to school to obtain her MLS. During her studies she became involved in user needs research which sparked her current interest in usability. Currently she is a doctoral candidate in instructional technology at Northern Illinois University working on her thesis that deals with a design element that could be effective in our online learning environments.

Megan Johnson is the Web Services Librarian at Belk Library and Information Commons, Appalachian State Library in Boone, NC. She got her Master of Library and Information Studies University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1993. Currently she is working on a second masters degree in Educational Media.

Leslie Johnston is the Head of Digital Access Services at the University of Virginia Library, where she manages digital library program components supporting the collection, management, and delivery of digital content. Previously, she served as the Head of Instructional Technology and Library Information Systems at the Harvard Design School, as the Academic Technology Specialist for Art for the Stanford University Libraries, and as Database Specialist for the Getty Research Institute. Ms. Johnston has also been active in the museum automation community, working for various museums, teaching courses in museum studies, editing the journal Spectra, and serving on the board of the Museum Computer Network.

In addition to his work designing search systems and web sites, Peter Karman is a father, husband, and musician. He lives in St Paul, Minnesota.

Professor Kirkwood is the coordinator of the Instruction Section for the Management and Economics Library. He is responsible for the development of the Management and Economics Library Web site as well as collection development in strategic management, operations management, marketing, quantitative methods, and MIS. His research interests are in teaching business information research, usability testing, information architecture, and business database comparison. Professor Kirkwood has been awarded the Moriarty Award for Excellence in Librarianship by the Purdue University Libraries and the Class of 1922 Helping Students Learn Award by Purdue University.

Tom Lehman is a member of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Dept. in the University of Notre Dame Libraries, where he works on the Libraries' intranet and extranet and helps maintain the University-wide search engine.

Shelley McKibbon is Public Services Librarian at the W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library, Dalhousie University

Eric Lease Morgan is the Head of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department at the University Libraries of Notre Dame. He considers himself to be a librarian first and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to provide better library service. Some of his more well-known investigations and implementations include MyLibrary, the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, and the Mr. Serials Process. An advocate for open source software and open access publishing, Eric has been freely distributing his software and publications for years before the terms "open source" and "open access" were coined. In his copious spare time, Eric can be seen folding defective floppy disks into intricate origami flora and fauna. Eric also hosts his own Internet domain, infomotions.com.

Keith Morgan is Client Services Librarian in the Digital Libraries Initiative Department at North Carolina State. He was part of the original design and development team for MyLibrary@NCState and although not related to Eric Morgan, has always been pleased that Eric credited him with coming up with the term "MyLibrary."

Terry Nikkel is Head, Library Systems at the Killam Library, Dalhousie University

Tod Olson is a Programmer/Analyst at the University of Chicago Library, and has been working in library computing for over a decade. He is best known for his work on the Chopin Early Editions collection of piano scores and speaking about Greenstone Digital Library Software. Tod holds an MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Brenda Reeb launched the usability program at the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries in 2001. The usability team conducts usability tests on several digital library projects using a variety of testing methods. She is the listowner of USABILITY4LIB, a forum for usability work in a library environment. Brenda offers regional and national usability workshops, and is often an invited speaker on library technologies and user interface design.

In addition to her user interface work, Brenda serves as the director of the Management Library for the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester, and she supervises the government information and microtext units. A native rural Midwesterner, Brenda earned her BS from Loyola University of Chicago and her MLS from Simmons College.

Michael Yunkin is the Web Content/Metadata Manager at UNLV Libraries in fabulous Las Vegas. He is also the creator and administrator of Digiwik: The Digitization Wiki.