Patricia Iannuzzi

Patricia Iannuzzi is Dean of Libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Iannuzzi chaired the multi-association task force sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) that wrote the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. She also co- chaired the ACRL/American Association of School Libraries Task Force on the Educational Role of Libraries, which developed “Blueprint for Collaboration,” a report stressing the importance of collaboration between academic and school libraries. She served on the American Library Association (ALA) President's Special Committee on Information Literacy Community Partnerships and on the ALA Task Force for 21st Century Literacies. She was a member of the Public Policy Roundtable of the Pacific Bell/UCLA Initiative for 21st Century Literacies and served as a consultant to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its information literacy projects. While at UC Berkeley, Iannuzzi led two Mellon funded grant projects on restructuring large enrollment courses to focus on research-based learning. Iannuzzi currently serves on the faculty of the Association of American Colleges and Universities Greater Expectations Institute, consulting with campus teams on undergraduate education initiatives. She is the author of several books and articles, including Teaching Information Literacy Skills. She speaks and consults worldwide on the topics of information literacy and research-based learning, information literacy and faculty development, and information literacy and outcomes assessment. Iannuzzi has an undergraduate degree from Yale University and an M.S. in Information Science from Simmons College. In addition to UNLV, she has worked in libraries at the University of California, Berkeley, Tufts University, and Yale University.

 

Melissa Highton

Melissa Highton is Head of the Learning Technologies Group (LTG) at University of Oxford. The LTG is the main centre for e-learning development within the University of Oxford and is recognised internationally as a world centre of excellence for research. Melissa's background is in staff development for use of technology in teaching. Before joining Oxford she worked at University of Leeds on programmes of staff development for academic staff and the roll-out of an institutional VLE. She has been a university teacher since 1998 and has a particular interest in the use of emerging technologies to support traditional models of practice.

Leslie Burger

Leslie Burger has directed the Princeton Public Library since 1999. From 1999-2004, Leslie planned and funded the new 58,000 square foot Princeton Public Library, which opened to great community excitement in April 2004. After decades of bickering and inactivity, she built partnerships with civic and community leaders and convinced donors to contribute $21 million to the library's capital and endowment campaigns. Leslie raised the profile of the library by challenging her community's notion of what a public library is all about and redefining what the public library means for local residents.

In 1991, Leslie also founded her consulting firm, Library Development Solutions. In her consulting practice, Leslie has guided more than 100 urban, suburban, and rural public libraries, academic and special libraries, state libraries, and single and multi-type library cooperatives across the US in strategic planning, space needs assessments, evaluation, and program implementation. Among her clients are the Reader's Digest Foundation, New York University Libraries, NY Comprehensive Research Libraries Group, East Orange (NJ) Public Library, Flint and Genesee (MI) District Libraries, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (MI), Palm Beach County Library System (FL), the Darien Public Library (CT), The Office of Commonwealth Libraries (PA), the Council on Foreign Relations (NY), SOLINET (GA), SEFLIN (FL), the Florida Library Association, The Live Oak Public Libraries (GA) and Rangeview Library District (CO).

Before joining the Princeton Public Library, Leslie served as a development consultant at the New Jersey State Library where she worked on leadership and marketing initiatives on behalf of the state's libraries. She served as Executive Director of the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, a multii-type library cooperative serving a three county area. She also worked at the Connecticut State Library as the LSTA Coordinator, Director of Planning and Research, and Director of Network Services. Her library career began at the Bridgeport (Ct.) Public Library when she was hired to develop a community information and referral service.

Recognized as an accomplished speaker, writer, and consultant, on staff development, planning and evaluation, organizational development and library futures, Leslie is also a sought after spokesperson in the media on issues related to the implementation of CIPA, the future of libraries, revitalizing downtown areas, and fundraising.  During her ALA Presidency Leslie will focus her efforts issues related to how libraries can transform the communities they serve.

Leslie is the president of ALA president beginning in July 2006 through June 2007. Leslie served as president of ALA's Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (1996-1997), the New Jersey Library Association (2001-2002), and the Connecticut Library Association (1982-83), and as an ALA Chapter Councilor. She has served on many ALA committees and task forces since she joined the association in 1976 including ALA's Better Salaries and Pay Equity Task Force, the ALA APA Pay Equity Committee, ALA Council, the SRRT Action Council, the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, the Public Awareness Committee,and the ALA Awards Committee.

Leslie attended library school at the University of Maryland in College Park and also has a master's degree in organizational behavior from the University of Hartford.

She received the Princeton YWCA Tribute to Women Award in 2003, The New York Times Librarian Award for 2004, and was honored as the University of Maryland's CLIS Alumna of the Year in 2005.

 

Conor Galvin

Conor Galvin is a Lecturer and Researcher at UCD Dublin College of Human Sciences where he works on various education, ICT, public policy and research methods programmes. He speaks regularly at national and international events on ICT and education.

Dr Galvin holds The President’s Award for Teaching Excellence at UCD and used the research leave associated with this award to take on a research analysis of innovative educational usage of ICT and to speak at various conferences throughout Europe on ICT / IST and policy related issues. 

His research interests include social capital, professional knowledge, innovation transfer in an information society, e-learning, schools ICT and the impact of new and emergent technology on learning and society.  Before joining UCD, Dr Galvin worked at University of Wales Swansea and University of Cambridge, England.

He was lead education evaluator on the highly-regarded research evaluation of the Diageo Liberties Learning Initiative (2005-07) and was a Member of the Minister for Education’s (Ireland) Strategy Group on Schools ICT (2007-08) for which he co-authored the final report; Investing Effectively in Information and Communications Technology in Schools, 2008-2013. In addition, Dr Galvin was External Evaluator on the EU DigEuLit project (2004-06) and acted as Assessor on a number of EU actions relating to the Information Society - including eLearning and MINERVA.  He has been National Delegate (Ireland) to OECD summits on the Information Society & Education, and since 2004 has been Pedagogical Adviser  to and, more recently, Research Evaluator of the EUN eTwinning Project – the principal EU schools’ ICT project funded under the eLearning and Comenius Action. Dr Galvin is currently the Chair of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI), a member of the UCD Strategy Group on Education Technology and a research and policy Adviser to the National Centre for Technology in Education, Ireland.