Joe Murphy of the Yale Science Libraries and author of the popular Twitter account libraryfuture is a leading innovator at the forefront of designing strategies for mobilizing library services. Joe received the Library Journal ‘Movers & Shakers’ award in 2009 & earned a MLIS from the University of Hawaii in 2006.

Mark Baggett is the Assistant Systems Librarian at the Louisiana Health Sciences Center – Shreveport. where he is responsible for all things technology while serving as liaison to the Pediatrics and Speech Language Pathology departments. Currently. he is a member of ALA. ACRL. LITA. and MLA.

A professional librarian and technologist, Tony Bandy currently consults with libraries through his company, Library Knowledge, helping them to achieve their organizational goals through training and leading-edge information technology. He is also a published freelance author for several magazines, blogs and does all types of business and professional writing.

Rachel Besara is an Assessment Librarian at Florida State University Libraries. Her main areas of interest are mobile assessment, visual assessment methods, ethnographic user studies, and assessing libraries’ ROI.

Jennifer Bielewski is an Educational Services Librarian at LYRASIS and has been teaching librarians and staff on various library topics such as new technologies, cataloging and Web 2.0 tools. Jennifer is a graduate of Berry College in Mt. Berry Georgia. She has worked in both public and academic libraries and is currently working towards her MLIS at FSU.

Stan Bogdanov is the Instructional Multimedia Specialist for Adelphi University Libraries. He is in charge of Web 2.0 initiatives and has spearheaded projects like the Library’s Mobile App, Virtual Tour, Blogging, and Social Networking involvement. His day to day duties are as eclectic as his experience, which encompasses anything from finance and currency trading to computer programming and video editing/shooting. Stan is heavily involved in the mobile development community and is always looking for new things to learn! He also has a personal blog on libraries, technology, and multimedia, called PointOh.org where he tries to post regularly about his experience working in the field. For more information feel free to google his name or shoot an e-mail to sbogdanov@adelphi.edu!

Laurie Bridges is the business and economics librarian at Oregon State University and head of the MobileLib Team. She currently owns a blackberry, but looks forward to the day when she can throw it away and get an android.

Thea Chesley was a state agency librarian for 8 years, a prison library coordinator for 14 years, and a library paraprofessional for 9 years at two Illinois Universities. Though now retired in Springfield, Illinois, she can’t seem to stop doing freelance reference with her smartphone.

Jason A. Clark is Head of Digital Access and Web Services at Montana State University Libraries where he builds digital library applications and sets digital content strategies. He writes and presents on a broad range of topics including mobile design & development, web services & mashups, metadata & digitization, Javascript, interface design, and application development. Before coming to MSU in 2005, Jason became interested in the intersection between libraries and technology while working as a web developer for the Division of Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin. After two years, he moved on to the web services department at Williams College Libraries. When he doesn’t have metadata on the brain, Jason likes to hike the mountains of Montana with his wife, Jennifer, his daughter, Piper, and their dog, Oakley. You can find Jason online by following him on twitter at twitter.com/jaclark, catching up with him on Facebook at facebook.com/jasclark, or checking out his occasional thoughts and code samples on his site at www.jasonclark.info.

John Cyrus received his MLIS in 2009 from Louisiana State University. He currently works as a Liaison Librarian at the LSU Health Science Center Medical Library in Shreveport, Louisiana.

David Daghita is presently a Technical Services Librarian for Onondaga County Public Library System in Syracuse NY. He received my MLIS from the University at Buffalo in 2008 and maintains the ILS catalog for the system along with discovering/implementing emerging mobile technologies into all aspects of the library.

Lalique d’Bruzzi is a technology consultant at Give by Cell. Lalique joined Guide by Cell in 2010. She graduated from Marlboro College in 2008 with a B.A. in Literature, focusing on Modernist poetry and religion. An avid follower of social media and mobile technology, her aim is to link non-profits across the country with the capacity to accept text donations.

Mike Demars is a librarian at the Cal State Fullerton Pollak Library. He works in both the library systems department and the reference and instruction department. He is primarily interested in finding new and innovative ways to use technology to meet patron’s information needs.

Jamie Graham (MLS) is currently employed as the Emerging Technologies Librarian at Ehrman Medical Library. Previously, she served as the Assistant Library Instruction Coordinator for Kimbel Library at Coastal Carolina University. Within the library Jamie participates in a variety of activities including curriculum planning, leading the implementation of new online reference services, designing online library content, and participating in clinical rounds. Her primary research interests focus on emerging technologies and education.

Kimberly Griggs is Oregon State University Libraries’ programmer. She is the designer and developer for OSUL mobile project and can’t live without her iPhone.

Charlotte Johnson, Director of User Services at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville’s Lovejoy Library with a B.S. in Art Education and an M.A. in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin, has been creating artist’s books since the 1970s. Her books have been exhibited throughout the US and Europe. As a hand papermaker and typographer, she has studied ancient texts and bookforms in Japan, Nepal, Turkey, Iran, Egypt and Russia. She has participated in many ebook conferences and helped introduce ebooks to Illinois academic libraries.

William Harroff has been a successful book artist for twenty-five years, working primarily in digital formats for the last fifteen years. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an NEA Regional Artists’ Project grant, the Frank B. Sessa Scholarship, the Governor’s International Exchange Program Grant, a Ragdale Foundation residency and top honors in several international art competitions. He holds degrees with Highest Distinction from Purdue University, Indiana University and the ISBK (Austria). He taught for several years at Oskar Kokoschka’s "School of Vision" in Salzburg, Austria. His artwork has been profiled in leading art journals such as AfterImage, Art Calendar and Contemporary Impressions. His bookworks are in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the New York Public Library, among others. He has held faculty positions at Southern Illinois University and Oklahoma State University. Since 1997, he has been an Assistant Professor at McKendree University in Lebanon, Illinois.

Thomas La Foe is an Instructional Technology Specialist in the Instructional Media Center (IMC) at Mitchell Memorial Library on the campus of Mississippi State University and serves as the Chairman of the Libraries’ Podcasting Committee. In the IMC he works with a team of instructors to offer software workshops to library patrons. as well as working with faculty in designing specific workshops for students whose coursework requires specific software skills. He also works in the IMC’s open computer lab where many students come for assistance with hardware and software issues. Thomas has been working in the IMC for 7 years. first as an undergraduate student worker. then as a graduate assistant. and finally as a professional staff member. He has used many of the skills he has learned in the IMC to design artwork for the Starkville Community Theatre. an organization in which he is very active. Thomas received his Master of Science in Instructional Technology from Mississippi State University in 2008. He teaches workshops on Adobe Creative Suite 4 and the Microsoft Office 2007 Suite. and frequently develops workshops for the Department of Communications’ numerous public relations classes. In his spare time. Thomas enjoys volunteering at the Starkville Community Theatre and traveling with friends.

As Collection Development Librarian at the NYU Health Sciences Libraries, Stephen Maher (MSIS) is responsible for managing and developing the library’s collection of electronic and print resources. Maher is also closely involved with scholarly communications for the School of Medicine as it pertains to copyright and NIH’s Public Access Policy. He is currently on the library’s Mobile Computing Task Force to develop a version of the library website and procure electronic resources that function well on smart phones and handheld devices.

Plamen Miltenoff works as information specialist at Learning Resources & Technology Services (LRTS) of St. Cloud State University (SCSU) in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Plamen Miltenoff holds MLIS from the Dominican University and graduate degrees in history from Sofia University in Bulgaria, Vienna University in Austria and University of Florida with additional studies from the former Soviet Union, Salzburg University in Austria and UVM in Vermont. He holds Ph.D. degrees in education from University of North Dakota and Shoumen University in Bulgaria. His professional interests include new technologies in education, online interaction among faculty and students, Web development and multimedia, and interactive and Web development in education.

Emily Molanphy (MSLIS) oversees the library’s websites, including this main NYUHSL site, the Alumni Digital Library, the NYU Patient Library, and the Taterka Digital Ophthalmology Library. She chairs the library’s Communication Team which directs the library’s efforts to reach out to users, discover user needs, and promote library resources and services. As a member of the Mobile Taskforce, she is working to develop a strategy to offer resources and services on diverse mobile platforms. Her research interests include information architecture and editorial workflow for websites, usability of searching and browsing interfaces, and open-source software in libraries.

Dorothy Moore (MS) is the NYU Health Sciences Libraries’ website manager. She has extensive experience in website design and administration and has been closely involved in the launch of several websites at NYU School of Medicine. Her interests include Drupal, CSS optimization, and writing for the web. Before joining NYU, Dorothy worked in scientific publishing at Nature Publishing Group. Dorothy has an MS in Business Computer Information Systems from Zicklin School of Business (City University of New York).

Joan Starr is the Manager, Strategic and Project Planning for California Digital Library. Joan works closely with the Executive Director and CDL senior managers on strategic planning for CDL as a whole and for Program-specific planning, as appropriate. In addition, she provides advisory assistance to CDL’s project managers, and supports CDL project planning, evaluation and resource allocation processes and practices. She also manages a number of complex projects for CDL. Lastly, she provides oversight for the University of California Systemwide Library Planning function. Joan blogs at http://www.cdlib.org/behindthescenes and can be followed on twitter at joan_starr.

Rachel Wexelbaum is Collection Management Librarian of the Miller Center Library at Saint Cloud State University (SCSU) in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Rachel earned her Masters in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University in California. She has worked in special, academic, and K-12 libraries in many capacities, with a focus on developing resources and services for populations with special needs. Some of her library-related research interests include perception of the reading experience, copyright law, improving access to resources for the handicapped, library resources and services for LGBT populations, and non-traditional library collections.

Jeff Wisniewski received his MLS from the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. He is the Web Services Librarian for the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, where he maintains the Library System’s public website, staff intranet, coordinates technical support for Pitt’s University-wide ETD program, and project manages new technology initiatives . He has served as a Visiting Lecturer in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, has taught numerous technology workshops, and is a frequent presenter at web and Internet conferences. He has published in such journals as Internet Reference Services Quarterly, Computers in Libraries, co-writes a regular column for Online magazine, authored a chapter in the recently released Haworth monograph Federated Search: Solution or Setback for Online Library Services, and is on team Android.