Miranda Bennett (California Digital Library)
Since October 2022, Miranda has served as Director of Shared Collections at California Digital Library, part of the University of California System. Her portfolio includes systemwide licensing, transformative open access agreements, and shared print, and she works with other members of the CDL leadership team in areas such as scholarly communications outreach, research data support infrastructure, and the UC Libraries integrated library system. Before joining CDL, Miranda was Associate Dean for Collections at the University of South Carolina and Head of Liaison Services for Collections and Research Support at the University of Houston, where she began her career as an instruction librarian in 2005. She holds a BA from Rice University, an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia, and an MLS from Indiana University.
Amy Castillo (University of Texas)
Amy Castillo is the Director of Access and Discovery at the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, which comprises the Acquisitions, Digitization Services, Metadata, Resource Delivery, and Stacks Management units. Prior to joining UTA, Amy was the Manager of Electronic Resources and Scholarly Communication at Tarleton State University Dick Smith Library. Her professional interests include open access, collection management, and assessment. She received her Master’s in Library Science from Texas Woman’s University, Master’s in Liberal Arts from Texas Christian University, and Bachelor’s in Music from University of Texas at Arlington.
Jee Davis (American University)
Jee Davis is the University Librarian of the American University. She is committed to organizational development and transformation through meaningful organizational review and inclusive strategic planning. She is a member of both Deans’ Council and President’s Council at the American University in which she actively contributes to campus leadership and management. Ethical, inclusive leadership lies in the center of her leadership, and she firmly believes in the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion which has been the foundation of her management and leadership practice. Prior to the American University, Jee was the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Stewardship at Villanova University Library and held various positions at the University of Texas Libraries including the Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services.
Erin Gallagher (University of Florida)
Erin Gallagher serves as Chair of Acquisitions & Collections Services at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. She leads a brilliant team of professionals who steer collection management activities and initiatives on behalf of the Libraries. Prior to joining UF, she held e-resources and collections management positions at Reed College and Rollins College, and started her career as a Collections Consultant for a book vendor.
Lanette Garza (Center for Research Libraries)
Lanette Garza is the Director of Licensing and Acquisitions at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). As part of her broad leadership portfolio at CRL, Garza is responsible for leading and supporting the NERL program and its collective action mission. Garza has spent her career in higher education, and has held previous appointments in a variety of contexts, including Palo Alto College and Trinity University, both in San Antonio, TX. Garza is especially passionate about bringing a data-informed approach to foster an open knowledge ecosystem. At Trinity University, she developed the library’s first data center dashboard to inform negotiations and licensing decisions. Over the past year, Garza’s leadership at CRL has brought this valued based and data-informed approach to negotiations with some of the largest academic publishers, including Sage, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Oxford University Press.
Allen Jones (The New School)
Allen Jones is the director of Digital Library and Technical Services at The New School Libraries & Archives in New York City. He is the former Primo Product Working Group chair for the Ex Libris Usergroup of North America (ELUNA) and he is currently the discovery liaison for Summon, Primo, Content and Aleph within ELUNA’s Steering Committee. Allen is also the convenor for the subject matter experts group within Project ReShare, a FOLIO-based resource sharing network within the PALCI consortium (Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc.). His professional interests include discovery and delivery systems within library technology systems. His personal interests include writing and philosophical approaches to psychology.
Adam Mazel (Indiana University Bloomington)
Adam Mazel is the Digital Publishing Librarian at Indiana University Bloomington Libraries. There, he is establishing a publishing service for IU’s grey literature: documents that are not publishable by scholarly or commercial presses. His interests include experimental publishing, specifically how digital publishing and data science might productively intersect. Before librarianship, Adam was a scholar of Victorian literature, and his peer-reviewed articles are in Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry, and Nineteenth-Century Literature. His M.S. in Library and Information Science is from Simmons University (2019), and his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature is from the University of Michigan (2014).
Jaclyn McLean (University of Saskatchewan)
Jaclyn McLean is the electronic resources librarian at the University of Saskatchewan. Her professional and research interests include trends in scholarly publishing, access, and assessment, and the application of evidence-based library & information practice (EBLIP) in professional practice. She has served on the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) Content Strategy Committee since 2024. Prior to her work at the university, she worked in public and special libraries and focused on youth and multimedia library collections, and services for individuals with print disabilities. She received her Master of Library and Information Science from Western University, and a Bachelor of Arts Honours in History from the University of Regina.
Ana Noriega (Colby College)
Ana Noriega is the Assistant Director of Collections Management at Colby College, in Maine, where she manages the acquisitions, e-resources and technical services work of the Libraries. She has worked in academic libraries for 20 years, with short stints in public and school libraries. Her interests and scholarship reflect her eclectic background and include the use of portals in children’s literature, the ‘language’ of fashion in popular culture, and the history of intentional communities. In her free time, she likes to answer reference letters as part of the Prison Library Support Network (PLSN) collective.
Weijing Yuan – (University of Toronto)
Weijing Yuan is the Head of Acquisitions & Collection Services at the University of Toronto Libraries, where she oversees licensing and acquisitions activities in the largest academic library system in Canada. She has served on the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) Content Strategy Committee since 2017. Weijing’s current professional and research interests include electronic resource management, open access, and the changing landscape of collections in academic libraries.