Lisa Spiro directs Rice University's Digital Media Center (part of Fondren Library), where she helps manage digital library projects, develops training materials on using and creating digital resources, runs a digital media lab, and pitches in with whatever else needs to be done. She got her Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, where she served as a project assistant at the Electronic Text Center and managing editor of Postmodern Culture. Her blog, "Digital Scholarship in the Humanities," contains her musings on emerging tools and methods for humanities scholarship and chronicles her attempts to turn her dissertation on bachelorhood in American literature into a work of digital scholarship. She typically uses a MacBook Pro with a 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2 GB of RAM.
Tyler Manolovitz is the Digital Resources Coordinator for Newton Gresham Library at Sam Houston State University. While helping with reference and instruction duties, he is also in charge of the library's digital collections, including the planning, development, and presentation of digital projects. He has recently been developing an internal library-wide wiki and conducting research into Web 2.0 research tools with colleagues. He received his MS in Library Science from the University of North Texas and is planning to begin a second Master's program in English this Fall.
Erin Cassidy is a Reference Librarian for the Newton Gresham Library at Sam Houston State University (SHSU). In addition to reference and instruction responsibilities, she provides subject bibliography and collection development services for the History and Foreign Language departments and serves as web-mistress for the library's website. She holds an MS in Library Science from the University of North Texas and will begin work towards an MA in History this summer at SHSU. Her (many and varied) research interests include Web 2.0 research tools and historical public records. When she is not at work at the university, Erin enjoys rural life and helping her husband tend to their beef cattle.
Abe is a Reference Librarian for the Newton Gresham Library at Sam Houston State University (SHSU). In addition to reference and instruction, he is responsible for collection development in the various facets of business. In addition to his current work on an MBA at SHSU, Abe holds an MS in Library Science from the University of North Texas and an MA in Education from New York University.
Debra Kolah is the Physics, Math, Astronomy and Statistics Bibliographer/Librarian at Rice University's Fondren Library. Recently, Kolah originated and coordinated a project to digitize the Rice Institute Pamphlets, an interdiscliplinary journal published at Rice from 1915 to 1946. Kolah is active in the greater science librarian profession: she recently ended a three-year term as a Librarian Consultant for the American Physical Society and served as the Chair of the International Relations Committee of the Special Libraries Association (Physics, Math, Astronomy Division), which encourages collaboration with librarians in developing countries. In her spare time, she enjoys finding new ways to get her toddler to giggle, and beading. Kolah's undergraduate degree is from Sam Houston State University, and she has an MLIS from The University of Texas.
Eric is the Education and Political Science librarian at The University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to coming to UT Arlington, he worked as an Instructional Technology librarian at the University of Michigan and managed the Knowledge Navigation Center (KNC). At the KNC, he talked with faculty, staff and students about their projects and helped them select the tools that would meet their needs, taking into consideration the time they had to learn the new tools, project deadlines, and prior computer experience. He would then go the step further and teach them how to use tools. Eric's favorite applications (if one is allowed to have 'favorites' without getting too nerdy) are EndNote, Illustrator, Word 2007, and LibX. His undergraduate degree is from The University of Texas at Austin where he double majored in Computer Science and English, and his Master of Science in Information is from The University of Michigan.
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