Joslyn Sandlin is a University of North Texas Master of Library Science student and a Library Assistant at Texas Woman's University. She attended Texas A&M University--Commerce where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English. She lives in Denton with her cat, Naran, and hopes to work to educate and empower young people throughout her career.
Kevin Stranack is the Community Services & Learning Coordinator for SFU Library’s Public Knowledge Project. His responsibilities are currently focused on leading the UX redesign process for the project’s open source software, managing the MacArthur-funded Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study (2015-2017), and directing the PKP School for building open publishing capacity. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies.
Chealsye Bowley is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Texas Woman's University where she works with the campus community to increase understanding of Open Access and author's rights, and advocate for sustainable publishing models. Her own research is within sociology of science and focuses on the publishing practices and identities of academic scientists. She is also the Communications Lead for the Open Access Button.
Sarah Melton is the Digital Projects Coordinator at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. As a digital humanities practitioner, Sarah is interested in digital publishing and open source advocacy movements. She is the digital publishing strategist of the open access journal Southern Spaces, a journal about the regions, places, and cultures of the US South and their global connections.
Dr Rufus Pollock is Founder and President of Open Knowledge, an international non-profit using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and see it used to create insight that drives change. He was formerly a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and a Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge and is currently an adviser on open data to several governments. He has worked extensively as a scholar, activist and technologist on the social, legal and technical challenges around the creation and sharing of knowledge.
Phillip Reynolds is the Scholarly Communications Librarian with the Center for Digital Scholarship. Phil has served as the Head of the University Web Development Office, and in the library's Research and Instructional Services department as a Library Liaison, and as the Assistant Director of the East Texas Research Center, the university archives and special collections department.
Dillon Wackerman is the Head of the Center for Digital Scholarship at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he is actively involved in the development and management of the SFA ScholarWorks, the University's institutional repository. Dillon's recent work has focused on the library as publisher, the relationship between non-traditional research formats and institutional repositories and also 3D models and content management systems, which draws upon issues concerning incorporation, feasibility and function.
Anjum Najmi is Research Librarian for Student Engagement at Stephen F Austin State University where she provides instructional support for students, faculty and academic departments to support interdisciplinary research and discovery. She is responsible for developing, implementing and assessing library instruction services with pedagogical practices connected to the ACRL information literacy framework to promote digital fluency.
Christine Fruin is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries. In this role, she educates the university community about open access resources, scholarly publication modes, copyright law and the impact of intellectual property issues on scholarly inquiry and instruction. She recently completed an appointment with the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries as Visiting Program Officer for Scholarly Communications. Fruin earned a J.D.
Nicole Allen is the Director of Open Education for SPARC. In this role she leads SPARC’s work on the issue area of Open Education, with a dual focus on public policy and engaging the library community to advance this issue on campus.
