Betsy Kruger - Coordinator for Digital Content Creation (betsyk@uiuc.edu)  
Betsy Kruger is the Coordinator for Digital Content Creation and also administers the Oak Street Library Facility, the UIUC Library's high-density shelving facility. She coordinates the Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance, a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that are helping to build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. She a member of the Internet Archive's Advisory Committee, and currently chairs the Library's Large-Scale Digitization Working Group.  [+]

Beth Sandore - Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning and Policy (sandore@uiuc.edu)  

William Mischo - Head of Grainger Engineering Library and Information Center (w-mischo@uiuc.edu)  
William Mischo is the Head of Grainger Engineering Library and Information Center and Professor of Library Administration at UIUC. Mischo was the Principal Investigator of the Illinois Digital Library Initiative and D-Lib Test Suite projects. He is an expert in XML, reference linking systems, simultaneous search systems, and end-user interface design for library applications.  [+]

Timothy Cole - Interim Head of Digital Services & Development (t-cole3@uiuc.edu)  
Timothy Cole is the Interim Head of Digital Services & Development, Mathematics Librarian and Professor of Library Administration at UIUC. He is the Principal Investigator of IMLS Digital collections & Content Project. Cole is a current member of the OAI PMH Technical Committee. He is an expert in XML and related technologies such as XSLT and in the use of metadata schemas including the qualified and unqualified Dublin Core schemas.  [+]

Michael Norman - Head of Content Access Management (manorman@uiuc.edu)  
Michael Norman is the Head of Content Access Management (CAM), which consists of Serials Cataloging, Monograpic Cataloging, Authority Control and Database Management, and Metadata Services. Other areas of work include electronic resources, large-scale digitization (both Illinois Harvest and Open Content Alliance work), resource discovery, metasearch, and information portals.  [+]

Mary Stuart - History, Philosophy and Newspaper Librarian (m-stuart@uiuc.edu)  
Mary Stuart is History, Philosophy and Newspaper Librarian and Professor of Library Administration at UIUC. She is the Principal Investigator for the Illinois Newspaper Project and Coordinator for the Arts and Humanities Division of the UIUC Library.  [+]

Tom Teper - Head of Preservation (tteper@uiuc.edu)  
Tom Teper is the Head of Preservation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Library. He joined the Library in 2001. His previous work experience includes work at the University of Kentucky, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  [+]

Chris Prom - Assistant University Archivist (prom@uiuc.edu)  

Sarah Shreeves - Coordinator for Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (sshreeve@uiuc.edu)  
Sarah Shreeves is the Coordinator for the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), the institutional repository at UIUC. She is the editor of the Digital Library Federation’s Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata. She also led the DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group to establish a set of guidelines for shareable MODS records. Sarah is an expert in use of the OAI PMH and interoperable or ‘shareable’ metadata.  [+]

Zoe Chao - Portal Librarian (schao2@uiuc.edu)  
Zoe Chao is the Portal Librarian of Illinois Harvest Portal where she manages the workflow and the website. Zoe was previously the UIUC cooridnator for the IMLS Digital Libraries Education Program after she completed her MS in Library and Information Science at UIUC in December 2005. She also holds an MS in Fisheries and Wildlife from Michigan State University.   [+]

Myung-Ja Han - Metadata Librarian (mhan3@uiuc.edu)  
Myung-Ja (MJ) Han is a Metadata Librarian and Visiting Assistant Professor of Library Administration. She graduated from the UIUC GSLIS Masters program in May 2006. Before earning an MS in Library Science, MJ worked for the Korean Central News Paper in New York City as a reporter and editor. She also has worked in Public Relations and Planning Dept.of Samsung Electronics Co. in Korea. At UIUC she worked in the Cataloging and Metadata Unit. MJ has a BA in Korean Literature and Linguistics.  [+]

Amy Jackson - Coordinator for IMLS Digital Collections and Content (amyjacks@uiuc.edu)  
Amy Jackson is the Project Coordinator for the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project at UIUC and Visiting Assistant Professor of Library Administrations. Amy was previously the Metadata and Digital Initiatives Librarian at Indiana State University, and has also worked on digital projects at Harvard University. She holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College in Boston and a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.  [+]

Candace Bulkley - Project Coordinator for Digital Content Creation (cbulkley@uiuc.edu)  
Candace Bulkley serves as Visiting Project Coordinator for Digital Content Creation. Before joining the Illinois Harvest project, she was a law firm librarian in Detroit. She holds an MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information.  [+]

William Ingram - Research Assistant (wingram2@uiuc.edu)  
William Ingram is a research assistant on the IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UIUC. Interests include digital libraries, information organization, and digital technology for the humanities. He holds a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Virginia.  [+]

Christopher Devers - Research Assistant (devers@uiuc.edu)  

David Vess - Graduate Assistant to the Associate University Librarian of Collections (vess@uiuc.edu)  
David Vess, is Graduate Assistant to the University Librarian for Collections at UIUC. He is currently pursuing a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Digital Libraries from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UIUC. Areas of interest include new collection development practices for research libraries, digital library policy, digital preservation issues, online communities, academic reference services, web accessibility, and user interface design.  [+]

Molly Dolan - Graduate Assistant for Digital Content Creation (madolan@uiuc.edu)  
Molly received her Master's in LIS from UIUC in 2004. After working with the Graduate School of LIS to help develop the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Digital Libraries, Molly has enrolled in the program to pursue a career in digital librarianship  [+]

Kurt Groetsch - Metadata Librarian 2006-2007 (kgroets2@uiuc.edu)    
Kurt Groetsch serves as Metadata Librarian and Visiting Assistant Professor of Library Administration, and is a 2006 graduate of UIUC's Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Before joining the Illinois Harvest project, he served at UIUC as cataloger in the library's Cataloging and Metadata unit and as research assistant on the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project. Prior to entering GSLIS, he served as account manager with Shandwick Interactive in St. Louis and Marketing Manager at VisionNex Technologies in Beijing. He also holds an M.A. in Media Communications from Webster University in St. Louis.  [+]