Michael Levine-Clark

Michael Levine-Clark is Dean of the University of Denver Libraries, where he has worked in various positions since 1999. He is vice chair of the board of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (Alliance), co-chairs the Alliance Shared Collection Development Committee, is past chair of the OCLC Americas Regional Council, and is currently on the OCLC Leaders Council. As a member of many publisher and vendor library advisory boards, he provides guidance about library and higher education trends. He helped found the open access journal Collaborative Librarianship, served as co-editor, and continues to serve on its editorial board. He co-edited the 4th edition of The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences and co-authored the 4th edition of the ALA Glossary of Library and Information Sciences. As co-chair of the NISO Recommended Practices for Demand-Driven Acquisition of Monographs Working Group, he was a lead author of the recommended practices document. For his work on e-books and demand-driven acquisition models, he received the 2015 Harrasowitz Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award. He is widely published and is regularly invited to speak to library and publisher audiences about academic library collections and scholarly communication issues.

Bonnie Tijerina

Bonnie Tijerina is a librarian, entrepreneur and library community convener. She is the founder of ER&L (Electronic Resources & Libraries) conference and organization and Designing for Digital, a user-experience and design conference for libraries. She is an associate researcher at the Data & Society Institute and works on grant-funded, library-related research and projects. Bonnie edited the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship and serves as an advisor on the board of University of Wisconsin Madison School of Library & Information Studies and on various IMLS grant projects. Bonnie worked in academic libraries for over ten years, most recently at Harvard University as Head of E-Resources and Serials.

Jill Emery

Jill Emery is the Collection Development & Management Librarian at Portland State University Library and has over 25 years of academic library experience including more recent experience with campus leadership holding roles as the faculty senate budget committee co-chair and as presiding officer of the Faculty Senate. She has participated in leadership positions in ALA, ER&L, and NASIG. She serves on the Project COUNTER Executive Committee. Jill is the Publications Officer for Insights: the UKSG Journal and a senior editor for Katina: Librarianship Elevated both diamond open access publications.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT

SHANA KIMBALL

Shana Kimball has worked for over 15 years at the intersection of expertise and the internet, as an advocate for and publisher of open access scholarly work; as a strategist, digital producer, and convener of communities at the New York Public Library; and as a managing director at a non-profit research institute studying the social and cultural effects of data-intensive technology. She currently works in New York City as a consultant, advising research-focused non-profits on business development, strategy, and fundraising.

Her specialty areas include Open Access trends, researcher workflows, strategy development and implementation, institutional development and fundraising.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT

JESSE KOENNECKE

Jesse is the Director, Acquisitions & E-Resource Licensing Services at Cornell University Library and has more than 20 years of experience in various academic library roles. He is an active member of the Future of Libraries is Open (FOLIO) project, working to develop a flexible, community-driven, open source suite of tools for managing library work. Jesse has held leadership roles in conference planning committees for Ivy Plus Access Services, Voyager Mid-Atlantic User Group, E-Resources & Libraries, and the World Open Library Foundation Conference (WOLFcon). In addition, Jesse writes and speaks regularly on acquisitions and licensing methods and strategies; resource usage analysis and decision-making; streaming media; library system and discovery tool implementation and management; and open source software development.

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT

JAMES WISER

James Wiser is the Dean of Library Services and Educational Technology at Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Texas. He has 20 years of experience in academic libraries, library consortium management, and academic publishing. In 2017, he co-edited (with Rolf Janke) Open Book: A Librarian’s Guide to Academic Publishing (Mission Bell Media). His other publications address librarian faculty status, library consortia management, library management, and the open access movement. He currently serves as chair of the Texas Council of Academic Libraries (TCAL) and as the treasurer for the SCELC Library Consortium. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of Serials Review and previously served on advisory boards of Elsevier and Brill Publishing.