James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/08/jamesNeal_librarian.html

Jim Neal is currently Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, providing leadership for university academic computing and network services and a system of 22 libraries. He also works with the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC), the Center for Research in Information Access (CRIA), the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), and serves on key academic, technology and budget policy and planning groups. Previously, he served as Dean of University Libraries at Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University, and held administrative positions in the libraries at Penn State, Notre Dame, and the City University of New York. At Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and Indiana, he has focused on digital library/electronic resource program development, library building construction and renovation projects, and fundraising and grants activities.

Neal has served on the Council and Executive Board of the American Library Association, on the Board and as President of the Association of Research Libraries, and as chair of OCLC's Research Library Advisory Council, as well as on numerous international, national and state professional committees. He has worked on the editorial boards of journals in the field of academic librarianship. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Community of Science, the corporate advisory board of Docutek, and the Board of Directors of the Research Library Group (RLG).

Neal is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, consultant and published researcher with a focus in the areas of scholarly communication, intellectual property, digital library development, organizational change, human resources development, and library fundraising. He has served on the Board of Project Muse, the electronic journal publishing program at Hopkins, on the Advisory Board for the E-History Book Project at the American Council of Learned Societies, on the Advisory Board of PubMed Central at the National Institutes of Health, on the Scholarly Communication Committees of ARL and ACRL, and as chair of the Steering Committee of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. He has represented the American library community in testimony on copyright matters before Congressional committees and was an advisor to the U.S. delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference on copyright. He has worked on copyright policy and advisory groups for universities and professional associations. He was selected the 1997 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year by ALA's Association of College and Research Libraries.

Clifford Lynch, Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
http://www.cni.org/staff/clifford_index.html

Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity.

Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last ten as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization.

Lynch currently serves on the Internet 2 Applications Council and the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, and now serves on the NRC's committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration.

Lynch is a prolific writer and frequent speaker at national and international conferences. Topics he is often asked to address include scholarly communication, technology, and standards.

Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, External Relations
Association of Research Libraries
http://www.arl.org/arl/staffbios/jblixrud.html

Julia Blixrud is Assistant Director for Public Programs for SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, a position she has held since 1999. SPARC is an alliance of universities and research libraries that support increased competition in scientific journal publishing. Its membership currently numbers 200 institutions and library consortia in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia and it has been endorsed by library and higher education organizations in Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Denmark, Europe, and the USA. SPARC is an initiative of the Association of Research Libraries.) In her role as Director of Public Programs for SPARC, Julia is implementing a grassroots educational program aimed at scientists and scholars, librarians, and society publishers. She speaks at campus events, scholarly society meetings, and library conferences. Julia is also Assistant Executive Director, External Relations, for the Association of Research Libraries working in several program areas and representing the association at national and international meetings.

During her 25-year career in the library community, Blixrud served as Director of Training and Education at the CAPCON Library Network, where she had primary responsibility for the coordination and expansion of the network's training and educational programs. Prior to that, she was Program Officer at the Council on Library Resources (CLR), a private operating foundation. For five years she headed the National Serials Data Program at the Library of Congress, the U.S. center for assignment of the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). Other former positions include Project Manager for the ARL-directed CONSER Abstracting and Indexing Project and OCLC Coordinator for MINITEX, a library resource-sharing network in Minnesota.

An active member of several library and information associations, Blixrud speaks and writes regularly on the topics of scholarly communication, library statistics, information standards, serials, library automation, and cooperative projects.

Mary A. Bisson, Professor and Chair
Department of Biological Sciences
http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/fnsm/bio-sci/faculty/bisson.html

Bisson has been a member of the UB faculty since 1986. She holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from Duke University. Her research interests include ion transport in algae, osmotic regulation, characterization of genes coding for transport proteins, comparison between marine and freshwater algae, membrane structures involved in transport and gravitropism.   She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Plant Physiologists, the Association for Women in Science, and Sigma Xi.   Bisson served on the editorial board of the journal Plant Physiology from 1986 through 1992. She serves as a peer reviewer for fourteen scholarly journals and reviews grant applications for seven agencies, including the National Science Foundation and NATO International Scientific Exchange Programs.

James J. Bono, Associate Professor
History Department and Department of Medicine
http://www.cas.buffalo.edu/depts/history/otherpages/bono.html

Bono has been at UB since 1985, but his joint appointment in History and Medicine began in 1988. He has a Ph.D. in the History of Science from Harvard University; his area of specialization is Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. He not only teaches core History Department courses, but also courses in the History of Medicine, the Scientific Revolution, and the Cultural History of Science. In addition, Bono teaches Medical Humanities and medical ethics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.   Bono's research interests include the cultural history of science and medicine during the Renaissance and early modern periods; the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries; images, visualization, and technologies of the "literal" in early modern science; the history of the body and sexuality; the role of metaphor and narrative in science; and the function of technologies of communication in the production and dynamics of knowledge and culture. Other interests include medical humanities, literature and medicine, and the narrative construction of illness and the physician-patient relationship. Bono has written or edited numerous book chapters, articles and books and has edited the journal Configurations , published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, since 1992. In addition, he is on the editorial boards of Studies in Science and Culture and the University of Michigan's Literature and Science Series .

David E. Johnson, Assistant Professor
Comparative Literature
http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/AandL/col/faculty/johnson/index.html

Johnson taught in the departments of English, Modern Languages and Literatures, and the Center for the Americas before joining the Department of Comparative Literature in 2001. His Ph.D. is from UB's Department of English.   He is co-editor of Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics (Minnesota, 1997) and also of the award winning theoretical Americas journal, CR: The New Centennial Review , which is published by the Michigan State University Press and included in Project Muse. He has recently finished a manuscript on the disciplinary limits of anthropology, entitled "Anthropology's Wake." His research and teaching focuses on the relations between anthropology, literature, and philosophy with particular interest in continental philosophy and 20th-century Latin American literary and cultural discourse.

Daniel J. Kosman, Professor
Biochemistry
http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/bch/faculty/djk.html

Kosman has been a Professor in UB's Department of Biochemistry since 1981.   He holds a B.A. from Oberlin and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His laboratory focuses its research on several components of the copper and iron uptake, trafficking and metalloregulation in yeast and mammalian cells.   A frequent contributor to the scientific and biomedical literature, Kosman reviews approximately twenty manuscripts a year for major journals in his field of expertise. He has served on several National Institutes of Health grant review panels since 1988.