Contributors
- Contributors
Jane Aikin received a master's degree in library science from Indiana University, Bloomington; a master's degree in history from Kent State University, Ohio; and a doctorate in U.S. history from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was a faculty member at Indiana University and at Kent State University and later served as a program staff member at the Council on Library Resources, Inc., and the Association of Research Libraries. Since 1986 she has been associated with the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she currently serves as acting director of the Division of Research Programs. Aikin's research interests are the history of cultural institutions, professions, public policy, and scholarly communication. She is the author of numerous publications on the Library of Congress and coeditor with John Cole of For Congress, the Nation, and the World: The Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress (2005).
Donald G. Davis, Jr., is professor emeritus of library history at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served in the School of Information and the Department of History for thirty-five years. He holds degrees from UCLA, UC Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Austin Seminary. Davis has authored and coedited numerous conference proceedings and reference works, among them American Library History: A Bibliography (1989), Encyclopedia of Library History (1994), and Dictionary of American Library Biography, 2nd Supplement (2003). In addition to his passion for writing book reviews and bibliographical essays, he has served in the library history units of the American Library Association and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
Nancy E. Gwinn, director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, has previously held positions with the Library of Congress, the Council on Library Resources, and the Research Libraries Group. She holds an A.M.L.S. degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from George Washington University. Her research interests include nineteenth-century American cultural history and the history of the Smithsonian Institution as well as current issues involving collaborations among libraries, archives, and museums in the digital era. [End Page 130]
Guy Lamolinara is the communications officer for the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. He has previously worked in the Library's Office of Strategic Initiatives and Public Affairs Office. Prior to coming to the Library in 1990 he worked for a variety of publications, including Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report and the Kansas City Times. He holds an M.A. in journalism from Ohio State University.
Eric N. Lindquist is a history librarian at the University of Maryland. In addition to having an M.L.S. degree, he holds a Ph.D. in British history. His research interests include the history of the book in early modern Britain and Parliament in the early seventeenth century. He is finishing a study of an early-seventeenth-century Member of Parliament that includes an edition of a parliamentary diary.
Mary Niles Maack is a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles Department of Information Studies and also serves as associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. She has previously worked at the New York Public Library and has taught at the University of Minnesota. Maack has authored numerous historical and comparative studies that have appeared in major refereed journals in the field. Her publications also include two books as well as book chapters and contributions to several reference books. She has won both the Justin Winsor Award of the ALA Library History Round Table and the Jesse Shera Award of the ALA Library Research Round Table. Maack has taught courses on book history, library history, reference and information services, information institutions, public libraries, and comparative and international librarianship. In 2005 she received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCLA Department of Information Studies. She is a member of the editorial advisory board of Libraries & the Cultural Record.
Josephus Nelson is senior writer-editor in the Office of the Librarian, Library of Congress. He holds a master's degree in library science from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in history from the University of Oxford. His research interests include archives, reference service, and...
