Keynote Speaker
The Keynoter for Best Practices Exchange 2008 is the capable and creative:
Roy Tennant, Senior Program Manager, RLG Programs OCLC Programs and Research
In Roy's title, RLG stands for Research Library Group and OCLC stands for Online Computer Library Center.
- He is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990.
- His books include:
- Managing the Digital Library (2004),
- XML in Libraries (2002),
- Practical HTML: A Self-Paced Tutorial (1996), and
- Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook (1993).
- Roy has written a monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal since 1997 and has written numerous articles in other professional journals.
- In 2003, he received the American Library Association's LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education.
- More about Roy Tennant
- Materials: Rising to Digital Challenges
Marketing and Grant-writing Speakers
Sara Groves, Marketing and Communications Coordinator, Montana State Library
Prior to her work with the State Library, Sara worked in various marketing capacities for a private consulting firm, the American Library Association, the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. She has also worked as a professor of writing for Tulane University and the University of New Orleans, and as a creative writing instructor at a maximum security prison. Sara has published numerous short stories, poems, and essays, and is currently hard at work at a forthcoming non-fiction book. Sara is married and is also the mother of a busy toddler named Mike, and a baby, Peter.
Materials: The Customer is Always First.ppt
Lucy Barber, Director for Technology Initiatives, National Historical Publications and Records Commission
At the Commission, which she joined in 2006, Lucy facilitates applications and grants for archival projects, especially those focused on electronic records. She received her B.A. in History from Haverford College, and her Ph.D. in American History from Brown University. She taught U.S. History at the University of California, Davis where she also started a public history program. She then worked as an archivist at the California State Archives where she supervised interns, worked on the online catalog project, and began its electronic records program.
Materials: Behind the Curtain of the Federal Funders.ppt