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Jeremiah A. Barondess is President of The New York Academy of Medicine and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine at the Cornell University Medical College.

Dr. Barondess was educated at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Michigan and received his MD from Johns Hopkins, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa. His early residency training was in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital; this was followed by two years as a Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and then by completion of his residency training in medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He remained at Cornell until June of 1990, rising through the ranks to hold the William T. Foley Distinguished Professorship in Clinical Medicine.

Dr. Barondess' clinical interests are in diagnosis and the diagnostic process. He has written extensively on clinical matters in internal medicine, on medical education, clinical ethics, the training of internists, and health disparities in urban populations.

He is President Emeritus of the American College of Physicians, and a past President of Alpha Omega Alpha, the American Osler Society and the American Clinical and Climatological Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins University, and chaired the Advisory Council for the School of Medicine from its founding in 1978 until 1992. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Board of Trustees of the Associates of the Yale Medical Library, the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Federation for Aging Research.

Since Dr. Barondess' appointment to the Presidency in July 1990, The New York Academy of Medicine has focused its programmatic activities primarily in the areas of urban health, recruiting to the health professions and medical education, the medicine/science/society interface and the health of the biomedical enterprise itself.

Mary Bayorgeon is Director of Library Services for Affinity Health System, a position she has held since 1995. Before that she was Director of Library Services at St. Elizabeth Hospital for 22 years and Assistant Government Documents and Reference Librarian for the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

Ms. Bayorgeon was educated at Marquette University as an undergraduate and received her MALS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. She earned a Certificate of Professional Development in Library Automation from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, School of Library and Information Studies. In addition, Ms. Bayorgeon is a member of the Medical Library Association (MLA), the MLA/Hospital Library Section (MLA/HLS), the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association, the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA), the Wisconsin Health Science Library Association (WHSLA), the Association of Wisconsin Special Librarians (AWSL), and the Fox River Valley Area Library Consortium (FRVALC). She has held numerous offices and committee memberships in the above organizations, 1973 to present, and was Delegate to the White House Conference on Library & Information Services in 1991.

Cathy Boss has been the Coordinator of Library Services at the Booker Health Sciences Library, Jersey Shore University Medical Center for the past six years. Prior to that she was library Director at Elizabeth General Medical Center. Ms. Boss has a bachelor's degree in Library Science from West Virginia Wesleyan College, a Master of Science degree in Library Science from Drexel University and is a Distinguished Member of AHIP. She has presented posters annually at the MLA annual meeting since 1996 and has authored a chapter entitled "Cyberspace: The New Culture" in Understanding Cultural Diversity by Mary Lebreck Kelley.

Ms. Boss received the New Jersey Health Sciences Librarian of the Year award in 2002 from the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey, an organization in which she has been very active for the past 31 years, serving as President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer, as well as on the Nominating, Government Relations, Archives, Finance, Hospitality, Values Clarification, Information Technology and Consumer Heath Committees. Currently she co-chairs the Association's Public Relations Committee and serves at the representative to Rutgers University's Program Associates Committee of the Department of Library and Information Science. Ms. Boss has also has served on the Hospital Library Section/MLA awards Jury, the section's Membership Committee and the section's Standards Committee as well as the NAHRS Newsletter editor.

Ned A. Collier, AIA is a principal with Perry Dean Rogers | Partners Architects and has extensive experience with the design of academic and institutional buildings. He has been Project Architect and Designer on two of the firm's largest and most complex projects: the expansion of the National Library of Medicine and the new Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Another recent project for which Mr. Collier served as Project Architect is Harvard University's 60 Oxford Street, an advanced computer and information technology building.

Mr. Collier has served as Guest Critic at MIT and the Rhode Island School of Design, and has worked in other teaching capacities at Harvard University, the University of Colorado at Denver, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has lectured widely over the years on the topic of architecture, studied at the University of Cincinnati and Columbia University for his undergraduate and master's work, and is a registered architect in the state of Massachusetts.

Lynn Silipigni Connaway joined the OCLC Office of Research as a Consulting Research Scientist in July 2003. Her primary responsibilities are to develop and lead externally-focused research projects and programs that support OCLC's members and the library community. Ms. Connaway's current research projects include the identification and comparison of circulation and interlibrary loan patterns and library collections and WorldCat data mining to facilitate library decision-making. She is the co-investigator on a two-year IMLS-funded project to investigate the information-seeking behaviors of faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and netLibrary subscribers from 44 central Ohio colleges and universities.

Ms. Connaway was formerly Vice President of Research and Library Systems at netLibrary, a Division of OCLC, served as the Director of the Library and Information Services Department at the University of Denver, and was on the on the faculty of the School of Library and Informational Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She received a Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Arizona, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and Library Science from Edinboro State University.

Parvati Dev completed her doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering on computer models of the brain at Stanford University. She has worked on the research and teaching staff at M.I.T., Boston University, and Stanford. From 1982 to 1989 she was Vice-President of Research at CEMAX Inc., where she developed products for three-dimensional imaging of patients from computed tomography and magnetic resonance scans. Since January 1990, she has led the SUMMIT Research Laboratory for Learning Technologies at Stanford. In its twelve-year history, SUMMIT has been a pioneer in the development of digital educational materials related to anatomy and surgery. In 2002, she was appointed Associate Dean of Learning Technologies for the medical school. Dr. Dev's current research at SUMMIT is in learning technologies for the medical student of the future, including virtual reality visualization of human anatomy, and the simulation of clinical procedures.

Shirley Dugdale is an architect with DEGW North America, LLC. She received her Masters of Architecture from Harvard and is based in Chicago.

Ms. Dugdale specializes in planning libraries and learning centers. She has programmed many health sciences libraries, starting over a decade ago with design of the Vanderbilt Eskind Library, programming of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's new Health Sciences Learning Center and a new library for Howard University. Now leading DEGW's Learning Environments work in North America, Shirley has recently been envisioning new facilities for Stanford School of Medicine, the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, the Centers for Disease Control's new Information Center, and a master plan for the Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library. Shirley focuses on the strategic impacts of new technologies and modes of learning, and on design to allow future change.

Other recent consulting has included a feasibility study for MIT to combine their engineering and science libraries, and a master plan for a predominantly virtual university, the University of Maryland University College. She is currently interested in exploring relationships between physical and virtual spaces to enhance learning communities.

Barbara Epstein is Interim Director of the Health Sciences Library System of the University of Pittsburgh, and a core faculty member in the University's Center for Biomedical Informatics. Prior to joining the Health Sciences Library System as Associate Director in 1995, she was Director of the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Library for ten years. Ms. Epstein received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and her master's degree from Case Western Reserve University.

Jeremy Faludi is a designer and engineer working at the Rocky Mountain Institute's Green Development Services in a Sustainable Energy Fellowship for Biomimicry. He recently earned his Masters of Engineering from Stanford University's Product Design program. At Stanford Mr. Faludi worked on a wide scope of projects dealing with green architecture, medical devices, vehicles, and robotics. While in school, he also consulted for Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, working with their Applications Team to create the Design Intent Tool, a software application that helps architects, engineers, and building owners use commissioning and design more energy-efficient buildings. Mr. Faludi also consulted for Chorus Motors PLC, making an interactive demo and simulator to explain their super-efficient motor technology to potential investors and manufacturers.

Before Stanford, Mr. Faludi was an instructor in the semiconductor industry, teaching engineers how to operate and maintain a high-density plasma dielectric etch chamber and a scanning electron microscope tool. He has also taught high school physics at the American School in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. His bachelor's degree is in physics from Reed College, where he built a computer-controlled active noise cancellation device for his thesis.

Steven M. Foote, FAIA has been with Perry Dean Rogers | Partners for 28 years. He is a graduate of Brown University and holds master's degrees in architecture and urban design from Columbia University. Mr. Foote is also a member of the College of Fellows of the American Society of Architects, and has extensive knowledge and experience in the field of academic architecture. His work includes the planning and design of the expansion to the National Library of Medicine, the renovation of Branford and Saybrook Colleges at Yale University, and academic libraries including the award-winning addition to the Olin Memorial Library at Wesleyan University and the Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

His recent articles on the subject of library design include An Architect's Perspective on Contemporary Academic Library Design and On the Design of the Health Sciences Library/Information Services Building at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Additionally, Mr. Foote chaired a panel discussion at Rogers Williams University titled The Evolution of Meaning in Libraries: Ideas and Critique, and several ACRL/ALA panels on design and programming of academic libraries.

Rick Forsman directs the Denison Memorial Library at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. He received a B.A. in English from the University of Minnesota, MSLS from Case Western Reserve University, and MPA from the University of Colorado at Denver. Mr. Forsman has chaired or served on more than a dozen committees, sections and task forces of the Medical Library Association, and was named a Fellow of MLA in 1999. He has served on the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries' (AAHSL) Board of Directors and is a past President of AAHSL. He has been an officer of the Health and Biosciences Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, participates in accreditation site visits for the American Library Association (ALA), and has chaired ALA's Committee on Accreditation.

Tim Hunt is the Principal Scientist of the Cell Cycle Control Laboratory for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in South Mimms, United Kingdom. Dr. Hunt earned his BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and won the Abraham White Scientific Achievement Award from the George Washington University. Dr. Hunt is a Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine, with Leland H. Hartwell and Paul M. Nurse for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.

Carol Jenkins is currently the Director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Health Sciences Library, which has a strong history of community outreach leadership and is considered to be a technology leader through innovative programs. Prior to coming to North Carolina in 1986, Ms. Jenkins held library administrative positions at the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia, and Oregon Health Sciences University. She won management traineeships at the University of Cincinnati and the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration at Bryn Mawr College. Her education took place at Kalamazoo College (BA) and the University of Oregon (MLS).

Ms. Jenkins' publications are in the areas of information outreach and preparing health sciences librarians for future roles. She has held leadership positions in several national library and information associations, as well as on the campus of UNC. She is a past President of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries as well as of the Medical Library Association. In 2003 she has served as a mentor in the NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows program and is a member of the Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee of NLM.

Alexander P. Lamis, AIA has been a partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects since 1983. He was the Architect-in-Charge for the new 300,000-square-foot main library in Nashville, TN, which opened in June 2001. His other recently completed and current public library projects include main libraries in Jacksonville, FL; Bangor, ME; Miami Beach, FL; Clearwater, FL; and Columbus, GA; as well as the Morningside Heights Branch of The New York Public Library. His academic library projects include renovations and additions to the Baker Library at the Harvard Business School, a new 50,000-square-foot library at the law school at Florida International University, and a master plan for the expansion of the Fogler Library, the main campus library at the University of Maine.

Mr. Lamis has recently been invited to speak on the evolving role of information technology in library design at Computers in Libraries 2000, IOLS 2000, and at the MIT Club of New York. He contributed a chapter on sustainable design in libraries to the book Planning The Modern Public Library Building. Mr. Lamis also serves on the 10-member Architecture for Public Libraries Committee of the American Library Association, and is program chair for Going Green Without Going Broke, a program about sustainable design solutions in libraries for the 2002 ALA convention, which will be repeated at the 2004 Convention. He is also a contributor to the Public Library Quarterly and a member of the IFLA.

Mr. Lamis has been Architect-in-Charge for a wide range of educational buildings, holds a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master of architecture degree from the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning of Columbia University, where he was awarded the AIA Certificate.

Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, a scientist who has pioneered in applying computer technology to health care beginning in 1960 at the University of Missouri, in 1984 was appointed Director of the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest biomedical library. From 1992 to 1995, he served in a concurrent position as founding Director of the National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President. In 1996, he was named by the HHS Secretary to be the U.S. Coordinator for the G-7 Global Health Applications Project.

In addition to an eminent career in pathology, Dr. Lindberg has made notable contributions to information and computer activities in medical diagnosis, artificial intelligence, and educational programs. As the country's senior statesman for medicine and computers, he has been called upon to serve on many boards including the Computer Science and Engineering Board of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Board of Medical Examiners, and the Council of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. David Lipman is currently the Director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which is a division of the National Library of Medicine within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCBI was created by Congress in 1988 to do basic research in computational biology and to develop computational tools, databases and information systems for molecular biology. After his medical training, Dr. Lipman joined the Mathematical Research Branch of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) as a Research Fellow. In his research on computational tools, he developed the most widely used methods for searching biological sequence databases. There are thousands of citations to Dr. Lipman's methods in papers which have used them to discover biological functions for unknown sequences and which have thereby advanced the understanding of the molecular basis of human disease. Since 1989, Dr. Lipman has led the NCBI, a leading research center in computational biology and one of the most heavily used sites in the world for the search and retrieval of biomedical information.

Logan Ludwig, Ph.D. is Associate Dean for Library and Telehealth Services at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Health System (LUHS). In addition to managing the Health Sciences Library, Dr. Ludwig leads initiatives for LUHS international telemedicine projects and the Illinois Rural Telehealth Alliance, a federally funded project linking academic medical center resources with rural community and provider needs. He is also co-principal investigator for an Integrated Advanced Information Management System (IAIMS) project to develop a system-wide performance management data warehouse at LUHS.

Dr. Ludwig, a Distinguished Member of the Medical Library Association (MLA) Academy of Health Information Professionals, is also an Adjunct Professor of Library and Information Science at Dominican University and has held numerous leadership roles in a number of professional associations including presidency for two international health communications associations. He is a well-known author and speaker on topics such as library design and renovation, information management and technology, telehealth and distance education, and copyright and intellectual property rights, and is associate editor for Library Building Projects for the Journal of the Medical Library Association.

Dr. Ludwig has served on the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Principles for Libraries in a Networked World Task Force and the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy/National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (OITP/NASULGC) Distance Education and Copyright Committee. He is Chair of the MLA Governmental Relations Committee and has testified before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies regarding NLM funding, telemedicine, electronic publishing, and intellectual property rights. Dr. Ludwig received his MLS from the University of Missouri in 1973 and his Ph.D. from St. Louis University in 1983.

Deanna Marcum was appointed Associate Librarian for Library Services in August 2003. In this capacity she has managed 53 divisions and offices whose 2,400 employees are responsible for acquisitions, cataloging, public service, and preservation activities; services to the blind and physically handicapped; and network/bibliographic standards for America's national library. She is also responsible for integrating the emerging digital resources into the traditional artifactual library, the first step toward building a national digital library for the 21st century.

In 1995, Dr. Marcum was appointed president of the Council on Library Resources and president of the Commission on Preservation and Access. She oversaw the merger of these two organizations into the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in 1997 and served as president until August 2003. Dr. Marcum served as Director of Public Service and Collection Management at the Library of Congress from 1993-95. Before that she was the dean of the School of Library and information Science at The Catholic University of America. From 1980 to 1989, she was first a program officer and then vice president of the Council on Library Resources. Dr. Marcum holds a Ph.D. in American Studies, a master's degree in Library Science, and a bachelor's degree in English.

Since 1989, Judith Messerle has served as Countway Librarian for the Harvard Medical and Boston Medical Libraries, The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine in Boston, MA. Prior to her current position she worked as a university consultant, director of information services, and librarian at various hospitals and universities.

Messerle has been published in Hospital Library Management and Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. She has served as president for the Medical Library Association, the Association of Academic Health Science Library Directors, and St. Louis Medical Librarians, and has been an active contributor to the activities of NLM, the American Medical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Illinois State Library Advisory Committee, AAHSL, the New England Journal Advisory Board, MEDLARS and Health Information Policy Advisory Panel for the U.S. Office of Technological Assessment, and the Medical Library Association.

Barry Moss is the president of Tymoff + Moss Architects in Norfolk, VA, a firm specializing in library and educational facilities. Mr. Moss holds a master's degree in architecture and planning from Columbia University. He practiced architecture in New York following his education at Columbia with the firm of Cooper Eckstut, and moved to Virginia in 1988. Since that time, Mr. Moss has been involved with the design of over 50 libraries, including public, university, and medical institutions. Most recently, he was responsible for the renovation of the Medical College of Virginia Library at Virginia Commonwealth University. The project was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal, and on National Public Radio. Mr. Moss was also responsible for the architectural design and construction of the new Eastern Virginia Medical School Library, which is a 65,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility at the heart of the college campus.

Jim Neal is currently Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, providing leadership for university academic computing and network services and a system of 22 libraries. He also works with the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC), the Center for Research in Information Access (CRIA), the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), and serves on key academic, technology, and budget policy and planning groups. Previously, Mr. Neal served as Dean of University Libraries at Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University, and held administrative positions in the libraries at Penn State, Notre Dame, and the City University of New York.

Mr. Neal has served on the Council and Executive Board of the American Library Association, on the Board and as President of the Association of Research Libraries, and as chair of OCLC's Research Library Advisory Council, as well as on numerous international, national and state professional committees. He was a member of the Organizing Committee for the International Federation of Library Associations conference in Boston in 2001 and coordinated its resource development program. Mr. Neal has worked on the editorial boards of journals in the field of academic librarianship, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Community of Science and the corporate advisory board of Docutek.

Mr. Neal is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and a consultant and published researcher with a focus in the areas of scholarly communication, intellectual property, digital library development, organizational change, human resources development, and library fundraising. He has served on the Board of Project Muse, the electronic journal publishing program at Hopkins, on the Advisory Board for the E-History Book Project at the American Council of Learned Societies, on the Advisory Board of PubMed Central at the National Institutes of Health, on the Scholarly Communication Committees of ARL and ACRL, and as chair of the Steering Committee of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.

Since the late 1980s, Cathy Norton has been involved in building the network infrastructure for the laboratory and the electronic library serving affiliates via high-speed networks. She has served as PI on an HHMI grant for building a virtual library; an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for building taxonomic information services, tools and communities; an NIH contract for outreach in Medical Informatics; NOAA and USGS contracts for library services; and a SeaGrant for digitizing the Woods Hole herbarium collection. She has also developed a paperless course in Medical Informatics that delivers the resources and lectures on-line for the students.

Ms. Norton served as president of the Boston Library Consortium and on the executive committee of NELINET. In 2001, she helped form a new consortium of Research Libraries and Museums (BISC) with Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, New York Botanical Gardens, American Museum of Natural History, Cold Spring Harbors Laboratory, Rockefeller University, and the MBL/WHOI Library. Ms. Norton has also hosted, lectured at, and organized meetings for the NERCOMP Computer Groups and the International Association for Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers.

Phillip O'Keefe received a bachelor of science in architectural studies from the University of Nebraska in 1990. This education was supplemented with master of community and regional planning (environmental planning) and master of architecture (design theory) degrees in 1996. Mr. O'Keefe has been employed with Reno, NV-based Lundahl and Associates since 1996, where he continues to serve as Project Manager on educational projects.

Philip A. Pizzo, MD became Dean of the School of Medicine at Stanford University in April 2001 after serving as the Physician-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Children's Hospital, Boston and the Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School during the previous five years. He received his B.A. from Fordham College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude in 1966, and received his MD degree with Honors and Distinction in Research in 1970 from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. After completing his residency in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital, Boston in 1973, Dr. Pizzo joined the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a clinical associate, then served as a pediatric oncology investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he trained in both pediatric oncology and infectious diseases. In 1981 Dr. Pizzo was appointed chief of pediatrics at NCI, and in 1995 was named acting scientific director of NCI's Division of Clinical Sciences. He was also the director of the Infectious Disease Section at NCI, and professor of pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Pizzo's research efforts have focused on the treatment of childhood cancers and on the diagnosis, management, and prevention of infectious complications in immunocompromised hosts. He and his colleagues also developed new treatments for children with symptomatic HIV infection. The author of over 500 articles and editor of 13 books, Dr. Pizzo also serves on numerous national and international advisory and editorial boards and has received many honors and awards for his scientific work. He is a member of numerous distinguished societies, including the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

From the Internet's foray into Corporate America to a major company split, Eugenie Prime has led Hewlett-Packard's Corporate Libraries through a sea of change for well over a decade. The first recipient of the Dow Jones Leadership award, Prime is a much sought-after speaker. She has been an invited lecturer and presenter at conferences that include Online, ASIS, ASIDIC, and SLA, and has traveled across North America, Canada, Europe, Japan and South Africa speaking extensively in the areas of Information Management, Digital Libraries, Strategic Planning and Knowledge Management.

Prime's work in creating a system for labeling and cataloging information online took her in front of the camera as the feature of a Hewlett-Packard advertisement stating, "What the Internet Needs is an Old Fashioned Librarian." She is a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, the Board of Directors of the Copyright Clearance Center, the Library Advisory Board of John Wiley (Publisher), and the Advisory Board of Consumer Webwatch. Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard, she headed a large hospital library while serving as president of CINAHL Corporation, a database producer and publisher of the Nursing and Allied Health Index. She has a B.A. in world history and sociology from the University of the West Indies, a master's in history from Andrews University, an MS from Drexel University, and an MBA from UCLA.

Judith Robinson is Assistant Dean for Library and Learning Resources at the Edward E. Brickell Medical Sciences Library, Eastern Virginia Medical School. She received her master of sciences degree in library and information sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and came to EVMS in 1995 from her position as associate director at the University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System. Ms. Robinson's previous professional experience included administrative positions at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library (1984-1990) and the Library at Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia in Richmond (1981-1984).

James Shedlock is the Director of the Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, IL. He has held his present position since 1991 and has worked in various administrative positions at Northwestern's medical library since 1985. Prior to coming to Northwestern, Mr. Shedlock worked at the medical libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wayne State University, Detroit. He began his health sciences library career at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac, Michigan after graduating from the University of Michigan in 1977 with a master of arts in library science degree, and received his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1974.

Mr. Shedlock has been active in professional association work culminating in his position on the board of directors for the Medical Library Association from 1996-1999. He has been a certified medical librarian since 1977 and is currently a distinguished member of the Medical Library Association's Academy of Health Information Professionals. In addition to his involvement with the MLA, Mr. Shedlock has made professional contributions to the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries including his current role as chair of the editorial board of the Annual Statistics of Medical School Libraries in the United States and Canada. He has also contributed numerous papers and essays for a variety of library science publications and has made many presentations to library and medical associations. Mr. Shedlock served as the project manager representing the Northwestern University Medical School in the 1994-1996 renovation and expansion of the Galter Health Sciences Library.

As Deputy Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Kent Smith assists in planning and managing all programs for the Library, which is the world's largest research library in a single scientific and professional field. NLM also serves as a national resource for all U.S. health sciences libraries via a National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Through its R&D programs, NLM explores the latest application of computer and communications technologies to improve the organization, dissemination, and utilization of biomedical information.

Susan Starr is currently Associate University Librarian, Sciences at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Director of the UCSD Biomedical Library. In this position she is responsible for managing activities of UCSD's Biomedical and Medical Center Library as well as providing administrative oversight for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Science & Engineering Libraries. Ms. Starr received her doctorate in psychology from Boston University in 1972 and her MLS from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978. She has held a variety of positions in the University of California system. In addition to her current interest in building design, she is actively engaged in issues related to changes in scientific communications and on the development of instruction and outreach programs in science libraries.

William W. Stead, MD is Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, Director of the Informatics Center and Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Stead is also Assistant to the Chancellor for Informatics and Chief Information Architect for Vanderbilt University, and Chairman of the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health.

Dr. Stead received his BA and MD from Duke University where he also served residencies in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. As an undergraduate in the 1960s, he was a member of the team that developed the Cardiology Databank, one of the first clinical epidemiology projects to change practice by linking outcomes to process. As a faculty member in nephrology, he was the physician in the physician-engineer partnership that developed The Medical Record (TMR), one of the first practical computer-based patient record systems.

Dr. Stead is a founding fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Institute for Engineering in Biology and Medicine, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. He currently serves on the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine and the Computer Science and Telecommunication Board of the National Research Council. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and served as president of the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics and the American College of Medical Informatics. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Dr Stead is a director of HealthStream, director of NetSilica, and chief technology officer of EBMsolutions.

Sarah Thomas came to Cornell University in 1996 as the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian. In a career spanning almost 30 years, Thomas has cataloged books in Harvard University's Widener Library, taught German at the Johns Hopkins University, managed library coordination at the Research Libraries Group in California, held a Council on Library Resources Management Internship at the University of Georgia, served as the Associate Director for Technical Services at the National Agricultural Library, and directed both the Cataloging Directorate and the Public Service Collections Directorate at the Library of Congress. At Cornell she provides leadership for the nineteen libraries that make up the University's library system, managing a staff of almost 500 employees and 500 students.

Thomas currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Digital Library Federation, and she frequently speaks or writes on the topic of digital libraries. She is a life member of the American Library Association, and is the president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), as well as a member of the ARL Board. She currently serves on advisory councils to several university libraries, including Harvard and MIT. Thomas earned a Ph.D. in German literature from The Johns Hopkins University in 1983, and received her bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1970 along with a master of science in library science from Simmons College in 1973.

Karin A. Trainer was named Princeton University Librarian in 1996, becoming the first woman to hold this post. Prior to moving to Princeton, she spent 13 years at Yale as Associate University Librarian and five years at New York University as Director of Technical and Automated Services. Trainer holds a BA from Douglass College at Rutgers University and master's degrees from Drexel University and New York University.

She is a Trustee of the Princeton University Press, a member of the Board of Governors of the Research Libraries Group, and recently completed two terms on the Diversity Committee of the Association of Research Libraries. She sits on the library visiting committee at both MIT and Harvard. Trainer's library building experience has included major projects at both Yale and Princeton. A selection of Princeton projects include the renovation of the East Asian Library with Venturi, Scott Brown; the construction of the Engineering Library with Pei Cobb Freed; the renovation of the Art Library with Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott; and construction of a science library, set to open in 2007, with Frank Gehry Partners.

Linda Watson has been director of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia Health System since May 1990. In July 2003, she received the title of Associate Dean to reflect increasing participating in the School of Medicine's education activities. At the University, she has been involved in a number of Health System-wide informatics activities, including serving as co-PI on an NLM IAIMS Planning Grant in the mid-1990's. She is a lecturer in the School of Medicine's Department of Health Evaluation Sciences.

Her previous library positions include five years at the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library from 1985-1990, and ten years at the National Library of Medicine from 1976-1985. She began her medical library career as a library associate in NLM's post-graduate internship program in 1975. Ms. Watson has been active in the Medical Library Association (MLA) for many years and is a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. She was program chair for MLA's annual meeting in 1995, served on the MLA Board of Directors from 1996-1999 and as Treasurer in 1997-1999. She was MLA president from 2002-2003, and is currently serving as past-president. Ms. Watson is also active in the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, currently serving as a member of the AAHSL Future Leadership Task Force, and as chair of the recently formed Committee on Scholarly Communication. She has her master's in library science from Simmons College in Boston, and her BA in French from the University of Connecticut, and also attended Georgetown University.

Carole Wedge joined Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott in 1986 and became a Principal in 2000. She has considerable experience in a variety of education and civic projects but has focused most of her attention on the planning and design of academic libraries. Her recent work includes projects for Cornell University, Dartmouth College, University of Chicago, Harvard Business School, MIT, Princeton University, and Tufts University. Ms. Wedge received her bachelor's of environmental design from the University of Colorado and her bachelor degree in architecture from the Boston Architectural Center. She is an active member of the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Society of College and University Planners, and frequently lectures at professional conferences.

Frieda Weise earned her MLS from the University of Michigan in 1973. She has been Executive Director of the Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) since 1991. Prior to that she held positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the National Library of Medicine.

Ms. Weise was involved in the seven years of planning and construction of the new library at UMB which was first occupied in 1998. She has also been active in both AAHSL and MLA since the start of her career, serving as program chair for the 1998 MLA Centennial Meeting, president of MLA in 2000, and the Janet Doe Lecturer in 2003. Ms. Weise will be retiring from her position at the end of December 2003, after 30 years in medical librarianship.

Joan Zenan, MLS, AHIP, FMLA has served as Director of the Savitt Medical Library, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, since 1977, and since 2001, Director of her medical school's Information Technology Department. A graduate of the UCLA School of Library and Information Science, she completed a one-year Medical Library internship at the UCLA Biomedical Library in 1968, and a one-year NLM/CLR Health Sciences Library Management internship at Columbia University's Health Sciences Library in 1981. Ms. Zenan has been active in the Medical Library Association (MLA) and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL), serving on both Boards of Directors, and as Treasurer of MLA, and Secretary and President of AAHSL.

At University of Nevada, Reno, she has served on and chaired numerous campuswide committees, as well as chairing the university's academic Faculty Senate. Her community and statewide activities include service on Reno's emergency medical services board, participation in the Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Program, and she is currently chairing the Nevada State Council on Libraries and Literacy. Ms. Zenan has been published in refereed journals and given many presentations at national and regional professional meetings. From 1999-2001, as a member of the medical school Building Committee, she actively participated in the planning, construction, and occupancy of the new Savitt Medical Library in the Pennington Medical Education Building.