Attendee Biographies

Mark Bide
Executive Director
EDItEUR

Mark has worked in and around the publishing industry for nearly 40 years. In January 2009, he was appointed Executive Director of EDItEUR, the trade standards body for the global books and serials communities. EDItEUR is best known for the ONIX family of messaging standards. He is also a Director of Rightscom, the specialist London-based media consultancy, where among other client engagements, he is the Project Director for the ACAP project, working to standardise protocols for the machine-to-machine communication of permissions in the network environment. At Rightscom, he has worked for a wide variety of clients not only in publishing but across the media. Before he joined Rightscom in 2001, he ran his own consultancy business for nearly 10 years. His publishing career began at Pergamon Press in 1971. He went on to become a Director of the European subsidiaries of both CBS Publishing and John Wiley & Sons.

Diane Boehr
Head of Cataloging
National Library of Medicine

Diane is the Head of Cataloging at the National Library of Medicine. She served as the Medical Library Association representative to the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. She has been active in metadata and bibliographic standards work and is currently a member of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Standing Committee on Standards. Diane received her MLS from the University of Maryland, College of Library and Information Studies, where she taught a course in Bibliographic Control from 1993-2006.

Jane Burke
Vice President
Serials Solutions

Jane is Vice President of Serials Solutions, a Seattle-based business unit of ProQuest. Jane was appointed to this position in June 2005. Prior to joining ProQuest, Jane co-founded and served as President/CEO of Endeavor Information Systems. In addition to working as a librarian at Cook Memorial Library in Libertyville, Illinois early in her career, Jane served as President of NOTIS Systems. Jane earned her masters degrees in Library Science from Dominican University (formerly Rosary College) and in Management from the Kellogg School of Northwestern University. Always an involved member of the library community, she now serves on the Board of Governors for the Northwestern University Library and on the Board of Directors for the Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Among her many awards, Jane was inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.

Karen Calhoun
Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services
OCLC

Karen joined OCLC as Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, in May 2007. In this role, Karen is charged with charting a course for the future of cataloging and metadata services and extending WorldCat's global reach. Karen worked for OCLC from 1986 through 1996, serving in the OCLC Library Resources Management Division. From 1996 to April 2007, Karen served in leadership positions at Cornell University Library, most recently as Senior Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Technical Services. Recently Karen, who is active professionally in research and as a speaker, was principal investigator for The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, a Library of Congress-commissioned study that proposed new directions for the library catalog in the digital era. She holds a bachelor's degree from Bucknell University, an M.S. in library and information science from Drexel University, and an M.B.A. from Franklin University. Karen combines a deep understanding of metadata systems, the current state-of-affairs in cataloging, and a keen eye for best practices and trends around the globe. Karen hosts the OCLC blog, Metalogue and speaks on topics related to the future of cataloging, Webscale cataloging, metadata management, the future of librarianship and new research models for research libraries. Her recent presentations have included "We Are All Connected: The Emerging Global Information and Research Infrastructure," "Digital Library Dreams, Real Progress," "Metadata 2.0, Globalization, and Being Where Their Eyes Are," "Traveling Through Transitions in Technical Services," "It's All About Access," and "Some Rights Reserved: The Environment for Data Sharing."

Todd Carpenter
Managing Director
NISO

Todd is Managing Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit membership association that fosters the development and maintenance of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information used in publishing, research, and learning. Throughout his career, Todd has served in a variety of roles with organizations that connected the publisher and library communities. His main responsibilities have focused on marketing, content acquisition, business development, electronic publishing, and technology development. Prior to joining NISO, Todd had been Director of Business Development with BioOne an aggregator of online journals in the biological sciences. He has also held management positions at The Johns Hopkins University Press, the Energy Intelligence Group, and The Haworth Press. Todd is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds a masters degree from the Johns Hopkins University.

Ken Chad
Director
Ken Chad Consulting Ltd

Ken gained his MA from the Information Science Department at City University in London. He has over 20 years experience in the global library software business and has worked with a wide range of academic, research, college, public, corporate and national libraries throughout the world. Before setting up his consultancy business in 2007, Ken was Executive Director and Board member at Talis, a library software business based in the UK. His consulting activities include work on projects for the UK's JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries). He recently completed a study for the UK's Research Information Network (RIN) on 'Bibliographical Data: Creation and Flow Patterns' which will be published shortly. In addition he has worked on strategy development for major libraries. He has published articles and presented widely on the strategic impact of technology driven change.

Eric R. Childress
Consulting Project Manager
OCLC Programs and Research

Eric is a Consulting Project Manager in OCLC Research. He provides project management support for OCLC Research initiatives and participates as a contributing team member on selected research projects. Eric has been active in multiple professional associations, including: the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), serving as chair, member, or liaison with various committees and working groups. Eric has authored or co-authored articles and columns for a variety of professional journals including Code4Lib Journal, D-Lib Magazine, the Journal of Internet Cataloging, Library Resources & Technical Services, and the VRA Bulletin. He contributes to the OCLC staff-authored It's all good. Prior to OCLC, Eric worked in the cataloging departments of the libraries at Elon University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He holds a B.A. in Geography and M.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Kevin Clair
Metadata Librarian
Pennsylvania State University Libraries

Kevin is the Metadata Librarian at the Penn State University Libraries. He is the cataloging faculty resource for the Libraries' digital initiatives, including its digital preservation activities and its joint efforts with university IT units toward implementing digital repositories. He served on the advisory board for the Next Generation Cataloging and Metadata Services pilot project, and currently serves on the RLG Social Metadata Working Group. He is also active in the American Library Association and the Digital Library Federation, and is currently researching the ways in which social metadata may enhance the practice of public history and promote collaboration among libraries, archives, and museums. He received a master's degree in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006.

Tschera Harkness Connell
Head, Scholarly Resources Integration Department
Ohio State University

Tschera specializes in areas related to knowledge organization. She began her career as a cataloger. She has ten years of experience teaching cataloging and indexing and has focused her research on topics related to the effectiveness of organizational decisions on retrieval. Currently, as Head of the Scholarly Resources Integration Department at the Ohio State University Libraries, her responsibilities include the cataloging of continuing resources, OSU's Knowledge Bank (institutional repository), and the OSU Libraries' e-publishing initiatives. She also collaborates as part of a campus team on the development of the university-wide faculty expertise system which draws and repurposes data from various data stores across the campus as well as from external bibliographic databases.

Libbie Crawford
Dewey Product Manager
OCLC

Libbie is the Product Manager for the Dewey Decimal Classification system. She manages Dewey electronic and print publications for OCLC as well as marketing, licensing and translation activities and other ventures. Libbie was formerly an OCLC Library Services marketing representative at SOLINET, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies. Prior to joining SOLINET, Libbie worked in both academic and public library settings. Libbie has an M.L.I.S. and a B.S. in education from the University of Alabama, where she also did graduate work in international marketing.

Cindy Cunningham
Director, Partner Programs
OCLC

Cindy has been with OCLC since January 2008 and is Director of Partner Programs in the Business Development Office. Prior to joining OCLC she worked for 3-1/3 years as Director of Cataloging and Metadata for Corbis Corporation, an image and image rights company based in Seattle, WA. She spent over 6 years at Amazon.com and was one of the original members of the ONIX committee that put together the ONIX standard in 1999 and 2000. Prior to that, Cindy held positions at the University of Washington, served as an associate director at Kitsap Regional Library, and worked at the Library of Congress.

Lorcan Dempsey
Vice President, Programs & Research and Chief Strategist
OCLC

Lorcan is OCLC Chief Strategist and Vice President Research. Before moving to OCLC he worked for JISC in the UK, overseeing national information programs and services. He is a librarian who has worked for library and educational organizations in Ireland, England and the US. He has consulted for the EU, and national policy and service organizations in several countries. He has policy, research and service development experience, mostly in the area of networked information and digital libraries. He writes and speaks extensively, and can be followed on the web at Lorcan Dempsey's weblog. He is currently a member of the NISO Board and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. A preeminent writer and speaker in the library and information science communities, Lorcan speaks on a wide variety topics related to library research, Library 2.0, Webscale for libraries and OCLC's membership reports. His recent presentations have included subjects such as, "Making Data Work Harder," "The Virtual Cultural Heritage," "The Network Rewrites the Catalog," and "In the Flow: From Discovery to Disclosure," among many others.

Timothy J. Dickey, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher
OCLC Programs and Research

Timothy is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the OCLC Office of Research. At OCLC, Timothy has been assisting Lynn Connaway with data mining, publisher name authority files, user studies, and an IMLS grant project evaluating virtual reference services; he also serves as editor for the journal RLG DigiNews. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Duke University, and the M.L.I.S. from Kent State University. His publications have appeared in Information Technology and Libraries, the ASIS&T Bulletin, Libri, College 7 Research Libraries, Explorations in Renaissance Culture, Plainsong and Medieval Music, and Cambridge's Early Music History; his research also has recently featured in presentations at the ALA Annual Conference, the annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, and the Charleston Conference. He has taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Cincinnati, and Ohio Wesleyan University, and has worked at the libraries of Amherst College, Gordon-Conwell Seminary, the University of Connecticut, and Duke University.

Magda El-Sherbini
Head Cataloging
The Ohio State University Libraries

In her role as Head of the Cataloging Department at The Ohio State University Libraries, Magda manages all activities related to cataloging and classification at the OSU Main Library. Magda's previous positions include Head, Monographic Cataloging, Middle East and General Cataloger, and Arabic Materials Specialist. Her career began at Cairo University Library. Magda holds a Bachelor of Library Science degree from Cairo University, and an MLIS from Catholic University of America.

Ruth Fischer
Partner
R2 Consulting, LLC

From January 1990 through December 1999, Ruth held a variety of positions at YBP Library Services, including Bibliographer; Manager of Approval Services, Serials, and Customer Service; GOBI Product Manager; and Vice President and General Manager of Library Technical Services. In January 2000, Ruth and her partner Rick Lugg formed R2 Consulting, LLC (www.r2consulting.org). R2's focus is on analysis of selection-to-access workflows in academic libraries. Almost inevitably, these projects lead to scrutiny of service priorities, user expectations, and organizational structures. R2's overriding professional interest is to help libraries adapt and compete effectively at Web scale. In addition to several library specific projects, R2 is busy with the investigation and analysis of the MARC record "marketplace" on behalf of the Library of Congress. Ruth holds an undergraduate degree in History from Earlham College and a Master's degree in Education from Penn State.

Moriana Garcia, PhD
Kent State University—SLIS

Moriana is a graduate student from Kent State University, and will be graduating with a Master of Library and Information Science next May. Recently, she was awarded a 2009 Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians Scholarship and a 2009 Jane Myers Memorial Cataloging Scholarship. She is working on her Practicum at The Ohio State University (OSU) Libraries analyzing the impact of WorldCat Local as a new interface for the OSU catalog. She currently serves as the chair of the Membership Committee for the Central Ohio chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (CO-ASIS&T). Mrs. Garcia holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Janifer Gatenby
Research Integration and Standards
OCLC

At OCLC, Janifer's role is research integration and standards, working in Metadata and Grid Services divisions. She has worked at OCLC from the Leiden office since 2000. Before joining OCLC she worked in library automation companies for more than 20 years. Janifer's career started in libraries at the State Library of Tasmania and the Universities of Tasmania, New South Wales and Macarthur. She has been involved in the development of many international standards including SRU, SRU record update, the ISO Holdings Schema (ISO 20775), the registry model (ISO 2146), the OpenURL Request Transfer Message and is currently working on two international standards ISNI, International Standard Name Identifier and ISCI International Collection Identifier.

Jean Godby, PhD
Research Scientist
OCLC Programs and Research

Jean is a Research Scientist in the Office of Research at OCLC. Her primary responsibility at OCLC is to develop formal models of metadata processing, including translation, normalization, and enhancement. She has also led projects on automatic classification and terminology identification. Jean has a Ph.D. in computational linguistics from Ohio State University.

Brian Green
Executive Director
International ISBN Agency

Brian is Executive Director of the International ISBN Agency. He was previously Executive Director of EDItEUR, the international standards body for books and serials, and Book Industry Communication, its UK counterpart. Brian served for many years as Chair of ISO TC46 SC9, the ISO committee for identifiers.

Michael Healy
Executive Director
Book Industry Study Group

Michael is the Executive Director of the Book Industry Study, a non-profit membership body established in New York more than thirty years ago to improve the efficiency of the book industry through standards, research and information. Michael has 25 years experience in the book industry and before joining BISG in 2006 spent seven years as Editorial Director of Nielsen Book Services, a leading supplier of information, transaction and market measurement services to the international book industry. For much his career Michael has been involved in the development and management of standards for the book industry and its supply chain, with particular focus on standards for product identification, metadata and electronic commerce. He has been Chairman of the International ISBN Agency and a director of Book Industry Communication and the International DOI Foundation.

Thomas B. Hickey, PhD
Chief Scientist
OCLC

Thom is Chief Scientist at OCLC. His interests include information retrieval, parallel processing, metadata reuse, library authority control, and the clustering of FRBR works in WorldCat. Currently he leads the implementation of the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) for personal names and WorldCat Identities. Previous projects include xISBN, CORC (a predecessor to the current cataloging system), and GraphText, an early electronic journal system.

Maureen Huss
Product Manager
OCLC Cataloging and Metadata Services

Maureen is Product Manager for Next Generation Cataloging and Metadata Services, Contracts and Quotes. She began working with Renee Register in 2007 supporting vendors, publishers, and other organizations that are participating in OCLC's metadata creation and distribution services. During her 14 years with OCLC, she has also held business analyst and product support positions within OCLC's cataloging and resource sharing divisions. Previously, Maureen held marketing positions with electronic payment processing and contract warehousing firms.

Arthur Johnson
Sr. Director
R.R. Bowker LLC

Art is a Sr. Director in Bowker's Data Services organization, where as the manager of the Business Analyst Group, he is responsible for ensuring database design and modifications meet Bowker's present and ongoing content business models. Art has over 25 years of industry experience. Prior job titles to joining Bowker include VP, CTO, Director, Chief Business Architect, Product Manager, and Project Manager.

Jay Jordan
President and Chief Executive Officer
OCLC

Jay became the fourth president in OCLC's 42-year history in May 1998. He came to OCLC after a 24-year career with Information Handling Services, an international publisher of databases, where he held a series of key positions in top management, including president of IHS Engineering. Jay has overseen a period of remarkable growth for OCLC. Since 1998, the number of libraries participating in the OCLC cooperative has grown from 30,000 to more than 69,000. The number of participating institutions outside the U.S. has increased from 3,200 in 64 countries to 14,500 in 111 countries. WorldCat, the OCLC bibliographic database, has grown from 38 million records to more than 130 million, and the number of library location listings attached to those records has increased from 668 million to 1.39 billion. Under Jay's leadership, OCLC has built a new technological platform, introduced new services, created a library advocacy program, and introduced new initiatives to make library holdings and libraries more visible on the open Web. Jay graduated from Colgate University in 1965 with a B.A. in English literature and served as a U.S. Army officer in Germany. He has spent more than seven years living and working outside the United States. Jay is active in a number of national and local professional organizations, including the American Library Association, Special Library Association, American Chemical Society/Governing Board for Publishing, TechColumbus/Board Chairman, and Children's Hospital Management Development and Compensation Committee. He has served on additional not-for-profit boards including Franklin University, Columbus Museum of Art, and The Ohio State University Medical Center Strategic Planning Group.

Suzanne Kemperman
Director, Publisher Relations
OCLC

Suzanne is the Director of Publisher Relations at OCLC, where she is responsible for OCLC's publisher partnerships for all digital content products, including eBooks, audiobooks, journals and databases. Suzanne has worked for over 25 years in the publishing industry in Europe and the United States, including STM, academic and educational publishing. She began working in electronic publishing at Springer Verlag in New York in the mid-nineties and prior to joining OCLC was the Electronic Publishing Manager at New York University Press. Currently, she is also a member of the External Stakeholder's Group of the European Open Access Publishing project. Suzanne holds a master's degree in Social Science, Political Science and German Literature and a vocational training degree as Business Manager, Publishing.

Rick Lugg
Partner
R2 Consulting, LLC

Rick is a native of New Hampshire, whose official motto "Live Free or Die" and unofficial secondary motto "Common Sense for All" have shaped his worldview. He has more than 25 years' experience working with libraries and vendors. In January 2000, Rick Lugg and his partner, Ruth Fischer formed R2 Consulting, LLC (www.r2consulting.org). Since then, R2 has developed a solid reputation for delivering direct, insightful, and actionable analysis that helps organizations improve performance and adapt to the changing information environment. In addition to workflow analysis, R2 offers strategic planning, organizational redesign, and onsite change management. For vendors, R2 provides product design and introduction, customized market research, focus group facilitation, and environmental scanning. Rick holds a B.S. in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire and an MLS from Simmons College.

Judy Luther
Consultant
Informed Strategies

Judy provides publishers and vendors with insights based on user research, data analysis and 35 years' industry experience. Recently her projects have focused on business models in publishing and industry issues and trends. Her experience includes 12 years managing sales at Thomson and at Faxon, preceded by 13 years managing academic libraries (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, & Stetson University). Judy has both an MBA (Emory) and an MLS (Florida State). She is a Past President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), was Co-Chair of the NISO Working Group that created SERU (Shared Electronic Resources Understanding) and led the creation of the Juried Product Development Forums within the Charleston Conference. Judy authored white papers on the E-Only Tipping Point (with Rick Johnson, ARL 2007) and Electronic Journal Usage Statistics (CLIR 2000). Her articles about technology and users have been featured in Library Journal and she serves on the boards of UKSG Serials, Against the Grain, The Charleston Advisor, Journal of Electronic Publishing and the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship.

Philip Madans
Director of Publishing Standards and Practices
Hachette Book Group

Phil is the Director of Publishing Standards and Practices for the Hachette Book Group. Phil has a long track record of evangelizing and implementing digital publishing systems, including Digital Asset and Title Management applications. He pioneered the xml tagging of Hachette's content in 2002 and is currently leading the implementation of HBG's start with xml production workflow. Phil is an active member of numerous BISG and AAP standards committees and serves as chair of the BISG Publish/Independent Wholesaler Interest Group.

David Martin
Consultant
EDItEUR

David is a consultant to EDItEUR, for whom he has been responsible for much of the design and continuing development of the ONIX metadata standards. He was previously Systems Manager at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, where he led the development of the INSPEC database; and from 1981 to 1987 Director, Automated Services, at The British Library. Subsequently he was one of the founder Directors of Book Data Ltd (now Nielsen BookData), and from 1992 to 2002, Chairman of First EDItion EDI Services Ltd. Over the past ten years David Martin has also worked as an independent consultant on technology and standards in the book trade, and on issues relating to the licensing of database products.

Brenna McLaughlin
Electronic & Strategic Initiatives Director
Association of American University Presses

Brenna is the Director for Electronic & Strategic Initiatives at the Association of American University Presses, overseeing communications and supporting the development of new programs in the digital arena for the Association's membership of not-for-profit scholarly publishers. Before joining the Association in 2001, Brenna served as the Membership Director for the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.

Joan S. Mitchell
Editor in Chief, DDC
OCLC

Joan is editor in chief of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. She has been closely affiliated with the DDC since 1985, when she became a member of the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee. Joan chaired the committee from 1992 until her appointment as Dewey editor in 1993. Prior to joining OCLC in 1993, Joan was director of educational technology at Carnegie Mellon University and an adjunct professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. She has also held various positions in academic and special libraries. Joan has written and spoken extensively in the area of knowledge organization, and has a special interest in localization and interoperability in classification systems. Along with her Dewey colleagues, she blogs at 025.431: The Dewey blog. She serves on the editorial board of Knowledge Organization, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of ISKO. She is also a member of the UNT School of Library and Information Sciences Board of Advisors. In 2005, the American Library Association awarded Joan the Melvil Dewey Medal, which recognizes distinguished service to the profession of librarianship. Joan received her bachelor's degree in economics from Newton College of the Sacred Heart and her master of library science degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Michael Panzer
Assistant Editor, DDC
OCLC

Michael is an Assistant Editor of the Dewey Decimal Classification, after serving as global product manager of taxonomy services at OCLC. Prior to joining OCLC in 2007, Michael worked as a researcher at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, where he headed the team that translated Dewey into German for the first time and was team leader in the CrissCross project, a research project funded by the German Research Foundation focused on mapping SWD, DDC, RAMEAU, and LCSH. He holds an MA from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in German literature and Information Science.

Patricia Payton
Senior Director Publisher Relations & Content Development
R.R. Bowker LLC

Patricia joined Bowker as Senior Director of Publisher Relations and Content Development in 2005. Leading Bowker's existing publisher outreach, based on improved data quality, as well as acquiring new sources of data, including digital collection initiatives, she is responsible for establishing new methods for outreach ranging from educational newsletters, webinars, e-mail blasts, to data optimization and cleaning services. With 15 years of experience in vendor relations from a retail perspective combined with 8 years practice in international markets, Patricia was previously with Borders Group Inc and CollinsBooksellers (Australia). Patricia holds an MBA from Kent State University and a BS in Journalism from Ohio University. She is currently working towards an MLIS in digital libraries at Rutgers.

Bob Pearson
Senior Technical Manager
OCLC

Bob is a senior technical manager at OCLC. His current development group is responsible for the creation and support of products that involve interactions with various trading partners in the information industry. From 1995-2000 Bob represented OCLC at the BISAC meetings and was involved with the early development of the ONIX standard. He has a solid understanding of data exchange standards MARC, ONIX, EDIFACT, and X12 and has developed mappings between ONIX and MARC. Bob began his career at OCLC in 1987 as a software developer. Bob received a Bachelor of Science degree in systems analysis from Miami University and a masters in business administration from Franklin University.

Renee Register
Global Product Manager
OCLC Cataloging and Metadata Services

Renee Register joined OCLC in 2005. As Global Product Manager for Cataloging Partnering, she is responsible for products, services and strategic planning relating to partnering with publishers and vendors in metadata creation, enrichment, delivery and maintenance. Prior to joining OCLC, Renee spent ten years with Ingram Book Group, first as Manager of Cataloging Services and then as Director of Classification and Bibliographic Control for MARC and non-MARC bibliographic data. Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, she received her M.L.I.S. from the University of Kentucky.

Richard Roberts
Global Product Manager, Metadata Services
OCLC Cataloging and Metadata Services

Richard joined OCLC as Global Product Manager, Metadata Services, in March 2008. Before coming to OCLC, Richard spent over 13 years at Ingram Book Company as an Automation Manager where he developed the BookMARC suite of cataloging, shelf-ready processing, and customer profile applications for Ingram Library Services. Prior to that, he was Product Development Manager for PSS Tapestry, an integrated library systems venture supported by Software AG of North America. Richard's career in library services automation began in the late 1980's at The University of Texas at Austin as the technical team leader for system development and support for UTCAT, the university library's OPAC and cataloging system.

Athena Salaba, PhD
Assistant Professor
Kent State University

Athena is an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University. Her research interests include organization of information, knowledge organization systems, and information-seeking behavior. She teaches courses in Organization of Information, Cataloging & Classification, Metadata, and Digital Libraries. Currently she is working with Dr. Yin Zhang on a three-year IMLS Research Grant on FRBR Research and Development. She holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Philip Schreur, PhD
Head, Metadata Department
Stanford University

Philip received his PhD in Musicology from Stanford University in 1987 and his Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of California Berkeley in 1988. He is currently the Head of the Metadata Department at Stanford University and has strong interests in the automatic generation of descriptive and controlled metadata stemming from his work as Knowledge System Developer for HighWire Press. He currently serves on the Policy Committee for the Program for Cooperative Cataloging and is chairing a task force investigating the contribution of catalog records to the BIBCO program through non-MARC standards (MODS, Dublin Core).

Diane Vizine-Goetz, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
OCLC Programs and Research

Diane is a senior research scientist at OCLC. She conducts research on the application and use of controlled vocabularies and on the application and use of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model. Diane has contributed to the development of classifier tools and services, e.g., WebDewey and Classify, respectively. She is currently lead researcher on the Terminology Services research project. In this project, OCLC researchers provide services for building applications using subject heading schemes and thesauri. Diane's team also prototypes end-user systems that employ controlled vocabularies and FRBR. Two examples are the DeweyBrowser and FictionFinder. The DeweyBrowser provides classification-based browsing interfaces to WorldCat records. The FictionFinder prototype provides access to 2.5+ million bibliographic records for fiction that are clustered at the FRBR work level. In the system, records are indexed at the work level and displays are organized by work and expression.

• Classify: http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/classify/
• DeweyBrowser: http://deweybrowser.oclc.org/ddcbrowser2/
• FictionFinder: http://fictionfinder.oclc.org/
• Terminology Services: https://www.oclc.org/research/projects/termservices/

Robert Van Volkenburg
Executive Director
OCLC Cataloging and Metadata Services

Bob currently serves as Executive Director for Cataloging and Metadata Services at OCLC. He is responsible for overseeing product management activities for OCLC Cataloging services including Connexion and CatExpress online services, Cataloging Partnering, and the Contract Cataloging and Library Technical Services (LTS) production services located in Dublin, Ohio and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, respectively. Bob began his career at OCLC nearly 21 years ago as a Cost Manager in Finance.

James Yanchak
Production Technologies Manager
Taylor and Francis Group, LLC

James is the Production and Technologies Manager for the Boca Raton Production & Manufacturing department of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, where he has worked for just over 10 of his 13 years in publishing. James' primary responsibilities at Taylor & Francis are centered around the technologies and workflows that support the development of STM books. James' secondary responsibilities include supporting existing products (both print and electronic). James is also responsible for investigating and developing procedures, technologies, and workflows for future products. Recently James' duties have been expanded to oversee MARC record generation, retrieval, and storage to support print and electronic products.

Marcia Lei Zeng, PhD
Professor
Kent State University

Marcia is Professor of Library and Information Science at Kent State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at University of Pittsburgh and M.A. from Wuhan University in China. Her major research interests include knowledge organization systems (taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology, etc), metadata and markup languages, database quality control, multilingual and multi-culture information processing, and digital libraries for cultural objects and learning objects. Her scholarly publications include over 60 papers and four books, as well as many national and international conference presentations. She was invited to give keynotes, presentations, lectures, and workshops at various countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America. She was the P.I. and Co-P.I. of two National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Science Digital Library (NSDL) projects. She has chaired and served on standards committees and working groups for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Special Libraries Association (SLA), American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), US National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). She currently serves as a member of IFLA Guidelines of Digital Libraries Working Group and chairs the ASIST Standards Committee and IFLA Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) Working Group.