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Karen Cook is the recorder of documents at the State Library of Louisiana, administering the state documents depository program. Cook holds a PhD from the University of Alabama, a JD from the University of Texas, and an MLS from Indiana University. She has been actively involved in library associations at the national, regional, and state levels for twenty years and is particularly interested in library history, intellectual freedom, and government information.

Debra Gold Hansen is a professor at San José State University’s School of Library and Information Science. She has a doctorate in history from the University of California, Irvine, and an MLIS from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research specialization is in nineteenth-century American social and women’s history, focusing on the professionalization and feminization of librarianship in the West. Her most recent work is A Pioneering and Independent Spirit: The History of San José State University’s School of Library and Information Science, which was published in 2010.

Florence M. Jumonville, a librarian and historian, has worked with Louisiana materials for over thirty-five years, first at the Historic New Orleans Collection and, since 1997, at the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans. She holds a PhD in education and history as well as master’s degrees in those fields and in library science, and she is the author or editor of three books and more than fifty articles, book chapters, and papers. Her research interests include the history of printing, publishing, and reading in nineteenth-century New Orleans and the development of libraries in Louisiana.

Bernadette A. Lear is the behavioral sciences and education librarian and coordinator of library instruction at Pennsylvania State University’s Harrisburg campus. She earned an MLS from Rutgers in 1999 and an MA in American studies from Penn State in 2012. Before coming to Penn State, she worked at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the State Library Resource Center of Maryland. She is currently the vice-chair/chair-elect of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association, [End Page 178] a position she also held in 2009–10. Her research focuses on the history of libraries in Pennsylvania. Her recent article “Yankee Librarian in the Diamond City: Hannah Packard James, the Osterhout Free Library of Wilkes-Barre, and the Public Library Movement in Pennsylvania” (Pennsylvania History, Spring 2011) was the recipient of the LHRT’s 2012 Donald G. Davis Award. In 2013–14 Bernadette is taking sabbatical leave to study the development of libraries in Pennsylvania’s small cities and rural areas.

Robert S. Martin is professor emeritus in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University, where he was professor of library science and Lillian Bradshaw Endowed Chair until his retirement in 2008. From 2001 to 2005 he served as director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Previously he held positions as director and librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and associate dean of libraries for special collections at Louisiana State University. He has authored or edited numerous books and journal articles on library management, the history of libraries and librarianship, and the history of the exploration and mapping of the American West. He earned a BA in history from Rice University, an MLS from the University of North Texas, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Cindy Mediavilla is a library programs consultant for the California State Library and part-time lecturer for the UCLA Department of Information Studies. She also served as president of the California Library Association (CLA) in 2001 and is cofounder of the CLA Library History Interest Group. Her MLS and PhD in library science are from UCLA. Cindy’s dissertation is titled “Carma Russell (Zimmerman) Leigh: An Historical Look at a Woman of Vision and Influence” (2000).

John T. Shaw is the genealogy and local history librarian at the New Jersey State Library. For thirty years prior to assuming his current position, he managed various science and technology libraries for Bell Laboratories and later AT&T Laboratories. After leaving the world of R&D and beginning a new career at the...

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