STANFORD UNIVERSITY 

James R. Jacobs (jrjacobs@stanford.edu) is the US Government Information Librarian at Stanford University Libraries where he supports the research needs of the university, and works on both traditional collection development as well as digital projects like LOCKSS-USDOCS and Web harvesting. He received his MSLIS in 2002 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A longer bio including a list of his publications and presentations can be found at Free Government Information.

Areas of focus: digital preservation, born-digital collection development, web archiving, the expansion of the public domain and information commons

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Dr. Lynda Kellam is the Director of Research Data & Digital Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. She is the co-author of Numeric Data Services and Sources for the General Reference Librarian (2011), co-editor of Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice (2016), and has presented extensively on data services, data management, and FAIR Guidelines. She holds an MLIS, an MA in Political Science, and a PhD in American History.

Ares of focus: data management, curation, and preservation; social science data; qualitative data

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Shari Laster is the Head of Open Collections Curation & Access at Arizona State University Library. In addition to extensive prior experience as a government information librarian, she is a past chair of the Depository Library Council, the advisory body for the Federal Depository Library Program, and a past chair of the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association.

Areas of focus: shared collections strategy and development, public information policy, collaborative facilitation, equity and inclusion in librarianship

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

Deborah Yun Caldwell is the Data Services Librarian at the University of North Texas. She was previously the 2018-2021 Diversity Resident Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where her work focused on equity in academia and supporting early-career librarians of color. Deborah is also a member of the Library Freedom Project, where she works with other privacy advocates to equip librarians and their communities with the skills and knowledge to help mitigate the harms of living in a surveillance society. Her professional interests lie in exploring the intersections of data stewardship, privacy, cultural memory, and the justice of information access.

Areas of focus: EDI in librarianship, library residencies, digital privacy, academic surveillance, program coordination, outreach strategies