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- id: yinlin-chen
  name: Yinlin Chen
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  institution: Virginia Tech
  position-title: Assistant Director
  bio: Dr. Yinlin Chen is an assistant director at Virginia Tech University Libraries, specializing in cloud computing and serverless architecture on AWS. He teaches an "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course in the Computer Science department and has presented works and workshops related to machine learning and serverless computing at conferences. His research interests include machine learning, cloud computing, natural language processing, and information retrieval.
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- id: hector-correa
  name: Hector Correa
  last: Correa
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  institution: Princeton University
  position-title:  Software Developer
  bio: Software developer at the Princeton University Library.
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- id: stefano-cossu
  name: Stefano Cossu
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- id: ryan-dubnicek
  name: Ryan Dubnicek
  last: Dubnicek
  pronouns: he/him
  institution: HathiTrust Research Center & iSchool, University of Illinois
  position-title: Digital Humanities Specialist
  bio: Ryan is a Digital Humanities Specialist with HathiTrust Research Center where he works in cultural analytics research, digital tool and dataset design, user support, outreach, and instruction.
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- id: brandon-klevence
  name: Brandon "bk" Klevence
  last: Klevence
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  position-title: Educator & Fabricator
  bio: Brandon, who goes by "bk", is currently a 9-12 Tech and Engineering instructor based in Northern NJ. His roots are in industrial design, electronics fabrication, and makerspace development. He was a founding member of the MakerJawn Initiative in Philadelphia Free Library system. 
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- id: amy-kirchhoff
  name: Amy Kirchhoff
  last: Krichhoff
  pronouns: she/her
  institution: Constellate, ITHAKA
  position-title: Senior Manager
  bio: Amy Kirchhoff enjoys her long career at JSTOR, Portico and ITHAKA.  She started her career working in the JSTOR technology group and then worked for Portico as the Archive Service Product Manager.  She is currently the Senior Manager for Constellate, a new text-analysis service from ITHAKA, which helps users across all disciplines learn essential text analysis and data skills.  
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- id: john-kunze
  name: John Kunze
  last: Kunze
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  institution: ARK Alliance
  position-title: Research Scholar
  bio: John Kunze is a pioneer in the theory and practice of digital libraries. With a background in computer science and mathematics, he wrote BSD Unix software tools that come pre-installed with Mac and Linux systems. He created the ARK identifier scheme, the N2T.net scheme-agnostic resolver (which redirects over 600 kinds of CURIEs, or “compact identifiers”), and contributed heavily to the first standards for URLs (RFC1736, RFC1625, RFC2056), for library search and retrieval (Z39.50), for archival transfer (BagIt - RFC8493), for web archiving (WARC), and for metadata (RFC2413, RFC2731, ANSI/NISO Z39.85). His specs and tools for repository microservices – Pairtree, Namaste, ReDD, oxum, ERC/ANVL, TEMPER, THUMP – may be found in such places as the HathiTrust and OCFL. Follow-on work in metadata includes creation of the Dublin Kernel and Yamz.net. His current work focus is the ARK Alliance (arks.org), Yamz, and the DWeb.
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- id: matt-lincoln
  name: Dr. Matt Lincoln
  last: Lincoln
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  institution: ITHAKA/JSTOR
  position-title: Senior Software Engineer
  bio: "Dr. Matthew Lincoln is a senior software engineer for text and data mining at JSTOR Labs working on Constellate. He earned his PhD in Art History at the University of Maryland, College Park, and has formerly held positions at the National Gallery of Art, the Getty Research Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, technical lead of The Programming Historian, and as a co-project director of the NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant Freedom and the Press Before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods for Researching Secret Printing."
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- id: eric-lease-morgan
  name: Eric Lease Morgan
  last: Morgan
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  institution: University of Notre Dame
  position-title: Librarian
  bio: Eric Lease Morgan is a librarian working in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame where he provides text mining and natural language processing services to the University community. He does data science with words.
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- id: andreas-orphanides
  name: Andreas Orphanides
  last: Orphanides
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  institution: NC State University Libraries
  position-title: Lead Librarian for UX Strategy
  bio: Andreas Orphanides is the Lead Librarian for UX Strategy at the NC State University Libraries. His work focuses on developing high-quality, thoughtfully designed technology solutions to support teaching, learning, and information discovery. His professional interests include systems analysis, human factors, and information design. Outside of work, he has too many cats.
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- id: ron-snyder
  name: Ron Snyder
  last: Snyder
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- id: janet-swatscheno
  name: Janet Swatscheno
  last: Swatscheno
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  institution: HathiTrust Research Center
  position-title: Associate Director for Outreach and Education
  bio: Janet Swatscheno is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at HathiTrust and Associate Director for Outreach and Education at HTRC. She engages with faculty, academic staff, and students on scholarly computational uses of the HathiTrust collection. Prior to joining HTRC, Janet was the Digital Publishing Librarian at the University of Illinois Chicago and Co-Director of the UIC Digital Humanities Initiative.
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- id: daniel-verbit
  name: Daniel Verbit
  last: Verbit
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  position-title: Soldering Instructor
  bio: "Daniel Verbit holds a Master of Library and Information Studies degree from The University of Alabama, and serves on the board of the Liberty Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MLA), and previous chapter chair of the Philadelphia Chapter of the MLA, and a Senior Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. He has taught soldering to students and at various conferences since 2015, along with community volunteering. In the world of disposable technology having the skill to solder is one part of reducing waste via technology repair. In addition, having soldering classes/skills can reduce the cost of assistive technology for patrons of all ages, and help improve communities."
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- id: allan-berry
  name: Allan Berry
  last: Berry
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  institution: University of Illinois at Chicago Library
  position-title: Clinical Assistant Professor & Web Services Librarian
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- id: andromeda-yelton
  name: Andromeda Yelton
  last: Yelton
  pronouns: she/her
  institution: JSTOR Labs
  position-title: Senior Software Engineer
  bio:  Andromeda Yelton is a software engineer and librarian. Currently she is at JSTOR Labs. Past affiliations include the Library of Congress, SJSU iSchool, Berkman Klein Center, MIT Libraries, Wikimedia Foundation, boards of the Library & Information Technology Association and the Ada Initiative, and a knitting company. Ask her about her cats, weightlifting, or planes.
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- id: angela-zoss
  name: Angela Zoss
  last: Zoss
  pronouns: she/her
  institution: Duke University Libraries 
  position-title: Interim Head, Assessment & User Experience Strategy
  bio: Angela is the Interim Head of the Assessment & User Experience Strategy Department at Duke University Libraries. She has many years of experience in teaching and training, especially around technology. As Duke's first Data Visualization Coordinator, she built a successful visualization service and partnered with various campus entities on visualization-related initiatives. In the Assessment & User Experience Strategy Department, she has taken a leadership role for DUL's data infrastructure and reporting systems. She has contributed to several open source development projects, including FOLIO and Wax, and is a certified instructor for both RStudio and the Carpentries.
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- id: arran-griffith
  name: Arran Griffith
  last: Griffith
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  institution: Lyrasis
  position-title: Fedora Program Manager
  bio: Arran comes to the open-source, library technology world with a diverse background and unique perspective on engaging communities and building meaningful connections. As the Fedora Program Manager, she acts as a strategic liaison between the program's governance groups and community stakeholders to oversee that key objectives are being met and that the program continues to evolve and grow. Arran previously served as Community Outreach Coordinator for the Fedora Program before taking on the full-time role as Program Manager in May 2022. Prior to joining Lyrasis, Arran led large sales teams in high-volume retail where her commitment to customer experience, and people management skills were the driving force in her successes. She has a BSc in Biology from Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB Canada.
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- id: ben-armintor
  name: Ben Armintor
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- id: bohyun-kim
  name: Bohyun Kim
  last: Kim
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  institution: University of Michigan
  position-title: Associate University Librarian for IT
  bio: "Bohyun Kim is Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology at the University of Michigan Library. She is the author of three books: Moving Forward with Digital Disruption (2020), Understanding Gamification (2015), and Library Mobile Experience: Practices and User Expectations (2013). She published many articles and is a frequent speaker at international and national conferences on topics related to emerging technologies. She is the former President (2018-2019) of the Library and Information Technology Association and served on many advisory boards and committees including those of American Library Association, San Jose State University’s School of Information, and Rhode Island Library Association." 
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- id: charlie-collett
  name: Charlie Collett
  last: Collett
  pronouns: he/him/his
  institution: California Digital Library
  position-title: Software Engineer
  bio: Charlie is a Software Engineer for the California Digital Library at the University of California. His current responsibilities include processing and managing metadata for HathiTrust and exploring the use of AI for metadata-related tasks.
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- id: clara-turp
  name: Clara Turp
  last: Turp
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  institution: McGill University
  position-title: Discovery Systems Librarian
  bio: Clara Turp is a discovery systems librarian at McGill University Libraries. As part of Digital Initiatives, she is involved in managing, configuring, and integrating selected library systems, including, but not limited to the Library's Discovery layers. 
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- id: dan-field
  name: Dan Field
  last: Field
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  institution: National Library of Wales
  position-title: Head of Software Development
  bio: Dan has worked for 20 years at NLW in Software Develolpment roles where he manages a small team of developers who support the Library's many large-scale digitisation workflows and discovery platforms. NLW have over 5.5 million digital objects managed in their Digital Asset Manageent System, with multiple custom discovery interfaces.
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- id: danny-nanez
  name: Danny Nanez
  last: Nanez
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  institution: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  position-title: IT Analyst/Programmer II
  bio: Danny ha trabajado more than 16 years as a Web Applications Developer for the University Libraries at UNC Greensboro.  El trabaja on the Digital Library on American Slavery.  His previous projects include the NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship and the North Carolina Literary Map.
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- id: david-cirella
  name: David Cirella
  last: Cirella
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  institution: Yale University Library
  position-title: Digital Preservation Librarian
  bio: David Cirella is a Digital Preservation Librarian at Yale University Library. In this role he works with stakeholders from around the institution towards the long-term preservation of their digital content. His areas of interest include digital forensics, programming, and information retrieval.
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- id: doug-simon
  name: Doug Simon
  last: Simon
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- id: elise-tanner
  name: Elise Tanner
  last: Tanner
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  institution: UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
  position-title: Director of Digital Projects and Initiatives
  bio: Elise Tanner is the Director of Digital Projects and Initiatives at the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture. She was a Resident of the 2017-2018 cohort of the National Digital Stewardship Residency for Art Information (NDSR Art). Her project was "Planning for Time-Based Media Artwork Preservation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art." She has a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.
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- id: emily-lynema
  name: Emily Lynema
  last: Lynema
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  institution: Indiana University Libraries
  position-title: Head, Digital Media Software Development
  bio: Emily recently became the Head of Digital Media Software Development at the Indiana University Libraries (Bloomington). She leads a team of developers (and a PO!) that support the Avalon Media System, an open source platform in the Samvera community for managing and accessing digital audiovisual materials. The group is also building the Audiovisual Metadata Platform, a tool for collection managers to use machine learning/AI tools to generate metadata for AV media. Prior to that, she was the Head of IT at NC State University Libraries.
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- id: esther-jackson
  name: Esther Jackson
  last: Jackson
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  institution: Columbia University
  position-title: Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian
  bio: Esther Jackson works in the Digital Scholarship unit of the Columbia University Libraries where she interacts with all manner of library technologies, contributes to libraries system management and partner relationships, and manages a variety of projects. Esther loves messy data, metadata, and python.
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- id: greer-martin
  name: Greer Martin
  last: Martin
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- id: jackson-huang
  name: Jackson Huang
  last: Huang
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  institution: University of Michigan
  position-title: Digital Content and Collections Coordinator
  bio: Jackson Huang is a library technologist whose work focuses on the intersections of structural politics and technological infrastructure in libraries and archives. Their research explores metadata translation and digital aggregations on the representation of materials related to the history of marginalized communities. They currently work as the digital collections and content ingest coordinator at the University of Michigan.
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- id: jacob-shelby
  name: Jacob Shelby
  last: Shelby
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  institution: Lyrasis
  position-title: Data Migrations Specialist
  bio: I'm a data wizard who believes in good metadata and reusable data processes. When I'm not lost in the weeds of a complex data migration or three, you'll find me working out or playing video games. I'm currently giving Witcher 3 a go.
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- id: james-english
  name: James English
  last: English
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  institution: Lyrasis
  position-title: Director Busines Development
  bio: James English currently works as Director of Business Development  at The Palace Project | Lyrasis  where conducts business development activities, partnership development, and new market entry as part of The Palace Project division team.  He also works across other company open source programs to help build scalable and sustainable services and drive innovation.   Prior to Lyrasis James worked at The New York Public Library to create the Library Simplified Program and SimplyE platform.  Before coming to work in the non-profit sector,  James was Chief Product and Executive Officer of Telemetry Labs and as Chief Product and Operations Officer for Guardian Networks, both web and mobile product development service providers specializing in machine-to-machine technology development, R&D and managed services for utilities, municipalities and fortune 500 companies
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- id: jason-a-clark
  name: Jason A. Clark
  last: Clarke
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  institution: Montana State University Library
  position-title: Head - Research Optimization, Analytics, and Data Services
  bio: Librarian @msulibrary, professor, hacker, author, footballer, skateboarder, fly-fisher, dogwalker, coffee brewer - "I am large, I contain multitudes." In my work, I have focused on Semantic Web development, digital library development, metadata and data modeling, web services and APIs, search engine optimization, and interface design. More recently, I have started to look at algorithmic literacy and machine UX - how bots and AI create particular types of user experiences and knowledge patterns. 
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- id: jessica-edwards
  name: Jessica Edwards
  last: Edwards
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  institution: Columbia University Libraries
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- id: jessica-lange
  name: Jessica Lange
  last: Lange
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  institution: McGill University
  position-title: Coordinator, Scholarly Communications
  bio: Jessica Lange is the Coordinator, Scholarly Communications at McGill University Library. In this role, she provides services to the campus community in the areas of open access, publishing, author rights, and open educational resources (OERs). She also manages the McGill's institutional repository and its scholarly publishing program. Her research interests include labour in academic journal editorial boards as well as scholarly communications literacy.   
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  name: Julia Ha
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- id: julie-shi
  name: Julie Shi
  last: Shi
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  institution: Scholars Portal
  position-title: Digital Preservation Librarian
  bio: Julie Shi is the Digital Preservation Librarian at Scholars Portal, where she coordinates service delivery and development for the Permafrost digital preservation and Ontario Research Library Cloud storage services and supports digital preservation activities for other Scholars Portal services.
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- id: justin-littman
  name: Justin Littman
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  institution: Stanford University Libraries
  position-title: Software developer
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- id: kate-deibel
  name: Kate Deibel
  last: Deibel
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  institution: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
  position-title: Systems Librarian
  bio: "Dr. Kate Deibel is a longstanding advocate for accessibility and usability in library technologies. She has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington but would much rather talk about web comics, chili peppers, her cat, technology adoption, and changing the world. She briefly left libraries for industry but is happily back working as PCOM Library's systems librarian."
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- id: kate-topham
  name: Kate Topham
  last: Topham
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  institution: Michigan State University
  position-title: Digital Humanities Archivist
  bio: Kate Topham is the Digital Humanities Archivist at Michigan State University. She collaborates on Digital Humanities projects that involve metadata, archives, digital preservation, linked open data, and text analysis. She has served as the digital archivist of the American Religious Sounds Project,  data wrangles for the Graphic Possibilities Research Workshop, and recently completed a 2022 LEADING Fellowship at Drexel University.
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- id: katie-amaral
  name: Katie Amaral
  last: Amaral
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  institution: Harvard University
  position-title: Senior Software Engineer
  bio: Katie Amaral is a Senior Software Engineer in Library Technology Services (LTS) at Harvard University. She has a master's degree in Computer Information Systems from Boston University. She has a background in security and wrote much of the code for the IIIF Authentication and Authorization services. She writes code in a variety of languages and frameworks such as JavaScript (NodeJS), TypeScript (Angular), and Python. She has experience with DevOps tools including Docker and Ansible. She is currently working along with her teammates to design, standardize, and build automated CI/CD pipelines for a variety of library systems across the university.
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- id: kristy-darby
  name: Kristy Darby
  last: Darby
  pronouns: she/her
  institution: Library of Congress
  position-title: Digital Collections Specialist
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- id: lauren-seroka
  name: Lauren Seroka
  last: Seroka
  pronouns: she/her
  institution: Library of Congress
  position-title: Senior Digital Collections Specialist
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- id: lucas-mak
  name: Lucas Mak
  last: Mak
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  institution: Michigan State University Libraries
  position-title: Metadata and Catalog Librarian
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- id: margaret-heller
  name: Margaret Heller
  last: Heller
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  institution: Loyola University Chicago
  position-title: Digital Services Librarian
  bio: "Margaret Heller has been Digital Services Librarian at Loyola University Chicago for ten years. An active participant in many library professional organizations including Code4Lib, she currently serves as president of Core, a division of the American Library Association. She the author of the 2019 book Community Technology Projects: Making Them Work."
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- id: mike-giarlo
  name: Mike Giarlo
  last: Giarlo
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  institution: Stanford University
  position-title: Software Engineer
  bio: Mike Giarlo is a software engineer at Stanford University Libraries, working on a team designing and developing software for long-term access to the University’s research and cultural assets. His focus is on development and maintenance of the Stanford Digital Repository and collaboration with open source communities.
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- id: mike-kastellec
  name: Mike Kastellec
  last: Kastellec
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  institution: North Carolina State University Libraries
  position-title: Associate Head of IT
  bio: I lead the core infrastructure and developer support team at the NC State Libraries. Before that, I was a Libraries Fellow. Before that, I supported technology in public libraries. I am not a coder, but I could play one on TV.
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  name: Mike Nason
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  institution: University of New Brunswick Libraries // Public Knowledge Project
  position-title: Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian // Crossref & Metadata Liaison
  bio: Mike Nason is the Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian at the University of New Brunswick and the Metadata/Crossref Liaison for the Public Knowledge Project. Mike is a loud, passionate advocate of open scholarly infrastructure and has been working in and around library publishing services for over 15 years. He is loud, also. 
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  name: Nancy Lin
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  institution: New York University (NYU)
  position-title: Sr. Data Projects Strategist
  bio: Nancy Lin is Sr. Data Projects Strategist at New York University Libraries where she is developing e-reader apps, NYU bookstore and library integrations, and Open Access resources. She focuses on improving access to e-resources through the promotion of open standards and interoperability. She also serves an administrator of NYU’s library services platform. Prior to working at NYU, she spent decades developing electronic publishing products at Oxford University Press, John Wiley & Sons, and ACLS. She has an MLIS from the University of Michigan and a BA from Cornell University.
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- id: naomi-dushay
  name: Naomi Dushay
  last: Dushay
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  institution: Stanford University
  position-title: Senior Software Engineer
  bio: Naomi Dushay is a software engineer at Stanford University Libraries, working on a team with Aaron Collier, Mike Giarlo and other Code4Lib notables. She has worked in the digital library field since 1990 (cough). Professionally, she is interested in improving discovery of assets, maintainability of code and providing quality assessments of metadata as early as possible in its lifecycle. 
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- id: peter-murray
  name: Peter Murray
  last: Murray
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  institution: Index Data
  position-title: Open Source Community Advocate
  bio: Peter received an MLIS from Simmons College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Analysis from Miami University.  His current activities include building relationships among libraries, organizations, and service providers participating in the FOLIO library services platform and ReShare resource sharing projects. He blogs at "The Disruptive Library Technology Jester" about the rapid advancement of library services in a social web world.
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  name: Raiden van Bronkhorst
  last: Van Bronkhorst
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  institution: California Digital Library
  position-title: Software Engineer
  bio: Raiden is a Software Engineer at the California Digital Library with a focus on machine learning applications for library metadata. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Western Washington University.
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- id: robert-anthony-lee-faison
  name: Robert-Anthony Lee-Faison
  last: Lee-Faison
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  institution: Princeton University Library
  position-title: IT Operations Fellow
  bio: "Robert is a North Carolina native and the Princeton University Library IT Operations Fellow. He helps to develop the applications to support the library system of Princeton University, with experience in Systems Administration, Web Development and Software Programming. Robert enjoys gaming, music, traveling, and lives for peaceful moments spent in nature."
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- id: ryan-mccarthy
  name: Ryan McCarthy
  last: McCarthy
  pronouns: he/him/his
  institution: Ithaka
  position-title: Senior Software Engineer
  bio: Ryan is a software engineer with JSTOR Labs at Ithaka, where he works on the JSTOR Access in Prisons Initiative. His interests outside of software are wide ranging and include watercolor painting, early modern theater, and the liberatory potential of both education and technology.
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- id: tom-wrobel
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- id: tyler-nathaniel-wade
  name: Tyler Nathaniel Wade
  last: Wade
  pronouns: he/him
  institution: Princeton University Library
  position-title: Cataloging and Metadata Services Fellow
  bio: Tyler Wade catalogs technical reports for the Princeton Plasma Physics Library, and writes quality assurance software tests for scientific data migration at Princeton University Library.
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- id: tyler-riley
  name: Tyler Riley
  last: Riley
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  institution: University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
  position-title: Digital Archive Programmer
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- id: vickie-karasic
  name: Vickie Karasic
  last: Karasic
  pronouns: she/her/hers
  institution: Princeton University
  position-title: Library IT Systems Administrator
  bio: Vickie joined Princeton University Library in June 2022 as the inaugural Library IT Systems Administrator, providing support and instruction around several library-wide applications and assisting with network infrastructure, security, and maintenance. Previously, her work focused on teaching, research, and learning within educational technology, library spaces, and subject collections. Vickie holds an MLIS from Drexel University, MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and BA in Comparative Literature and French from Cornell University. 
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  keynote: FALSE
- id: donny-winston
  name: Donny Winston
  last: Winston
  pronouns: he/him/his
  institution: Polyneme LLC
  position-title: President
  bio: Donny is a consulting engineer who helps research data stewards design and deploy FAIR digital objects and services. He is the owner and principal of Polyneme LLC; a cofounder of the FAIR Points event series; and host of the Machine-Centric Science podcast.
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  name: Dr. Siobahn Day Grady
  last: Grady
  institution: North Carolina Central University
  bio: "Dr. Siobahn Grady is an Assistant Professor of Library and Information Sciences and the director of the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research (LAIER) at North Carolina Central University, the only ALA-Accredited Library School at an HBCU (Historically Black College or University). Dr. Grady’s research is focused on using machine learning to identify sources of misinformation on social media, and on improving fault detection in autonomous vehicles. Dr. Grady is an IF/THEN Ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a program which seeks to bring more women and minorities into hard sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics. Dr. Grady was the first woman to graduate with a computer science Ph.D. from N.C. A&T State University, and through her teaching, research, philanthropy and public speaking she is a passionate supporter of HBCUs and the students they serve. Code4Lib would benefit from learning about her work at LAIER and about her vision for minority girls’ and women’s futures in technology fields."
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- id: lydia-tang
  name: Dr. Lydia Tang
  last: Tang
  institution: Lyrasis
  bio: "Dr. Lydia Tang is an Outreach and Engagement Coordinator for Lyrasis. Previously, she held archivist positions at Michigan State University, the Library of Congress, and numerous graduate positions at the University of Illinois, where she received her MLIS and Doctor of Musical Arts degree.  Passionate about accessibility and disability representation in archives, she served on the Task Force to Revise the Best Practices on Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities and spearheaded founding the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Accessibility & Disability Section (ADS). She is the 2020 recipient of SAA’s Mark A. Greene Emerging Leader Award and was recognized in three SAA Council resolutions as a co-founder of the Archival Workers Emergency Fund, for spearheading the Accessibility & Disability Section’s “Archivists at Home” document, and for the “Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities.” In addition to her professional service with SAA, she has contributed to accessibility initiatives within DLF Digital Accessibility Working Group and the ArchivesSpace open source software community by leading the Staff Interface Enhancement Working Group, Development Prioritization subteam, founding the Usability subteam, and chairing the Users Advisory Council. She has written about accessible physical archival spaces, hiring and advancement practices, and is currently co-editing a book with Dr. Gracen Brilmeyer, Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession."
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