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Stanley Chodorow is a historian and former academic administrator. He was CEO of the California Virtual University and served as the vice president of academic affairs at Questia Media. From 1968 to 1994 he was at the University of California, San Diego, as a professor of history and later a dean and associate vice chancellor. He served as provost at the University of Pennsylvania from 1994 to 1997. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. Chodorow has widely published on scholarly communication and political history, especially as related to the Middle Ages. He has been chair of the boards of both the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Center for Research Libraries.

David B. Gracy II, the Governor Bill Daniel Professor in Archival Enterprise in the School of Information, the University of Texas at Austin, is editor of Libraries & the Cultural Record. Gracy has held archival positions in three libraries, including director of the Texas State Archives, a division of the Texas State Library, and has served as president of the Society of American Archivists and the Academy of Certified Archivists. Subsequent to serving for four years as the associate dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas, he oversaw the school’s Preservation and Conservation Studies Program, now the Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record. His research interests include the history of archival enterprise, of archives and libraries in Texas, and of the information domain.

Birdie MacLennan is library associate professor and interim head of Collection Management Services at the Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont. She holds an M.S. from Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston and an M.A. in French from the University of Vermont. Her current areas of interest include libraries and librarians in a comparative, cross-cultural context; cultural and historical ties between Vermont and Québec; the impact of new technologies on scholarly communication and on organizational structure in libraries; the perception of library as place; and the contributions of libraries to society.

Louise S. Robbins is professor and director of the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her book The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library was awarded the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award from the American Library Association’s Library History Round Table and the Willa Award from Women Writing the West. She is also author of a number of articles and Censorship and the American Library: The American Library Association’s Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom, 1939–1969. Robbins is a past president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education.

Suzanne M. Stauffer is assistant professor of library and information science at Louisiana State University, where she teaches courses on cataloging and classification as well as the history of books and libraries. She holds a Ph.D. in library and information science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.L.S. from Brigham Young University. Her research interests include the public library as a social and cultural institution, children and young adult services, librarianship as a profession, and education for librarianship.

Ethelene Whitmire is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies. She is a former assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies’ Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds a master’s of library service from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. from the School of Education’s Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently working on a biography of Regina Anderson Andrews.

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