Lawrence Pijeaux is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. He is also the current president of the Association of African American Museums. Over the course of his career Pijeaux has worked as a museum and public school administrator, college instructor, secondary school teacher, lecturer, and consultant. He has received numerous recognitions including a Reader's Digest "American Hero in Education Award," the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity "Educational Leader of the Year Award," the Smithsonian Institution's Award for Museum Leadership, and the Association of African American Museum's Service and Achievement Award. He holds degrees from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Tulane University, and a doctorate in educational administration from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

James Michalko is President and Chief Executive Officer of RLG (formerly Research Libraries Group), a not-for-profit membership organization comprising more than 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. Michalko joined RLG in 1980, first as chief financial officer and later as vice president for Finance and Administration before assuming his current post in 1989. Prior to joining RLG, Michalko held positions in private industry, the University of Chicago libraries, and the University of Pennsylvania libraries. He holds degrees from Georgetown and the University of Chicago.

Cynthia Burlingham is Director of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also Deputy Director of Collections at the UCLA Hammer Museum of Art where she oversees the Armand Hammer Collection of Paintings, the Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection, and the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden. A specialist in the history of prints, she has curated over fifty exhibitions on subjects ranging from the treasures of the great libraries of Los Angeles to the prints of Albrecht Dürer to 20th-Century American Comics. She holds degrees from Pitzer College in Claremont and Oberlin College.

Michelle Doucet is Director General, Services, at the Library and Archives Canada. Library and Archives Canada is an innovative knowledge institution that since 2004 has combined the collections, services, and staff expertise of the former National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada.

Deborah Wythe is currently Head of Digital Collections and Services for the Brooklyn Museum, where she previously served as Archivist and Manager of Special Library Collections. An active member of the Museum Archives section of the Society of American Archivists, she is the editor and a contributing author to the second edition of Museum Archives: An Introduction (Society of American Archivists, 2004).

Joseph Sax is James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. Sax began his career with the Department of Justice and later in private practice in Washington, D.C. He then began teaching law at the University of Colorado in 1962, moved to the University of Michigan as the Philip A. Hart Distinguished University Professor, and then joined the faculty at Berkeley in 1986. From 1994 to 1996, Sax served in President Clinton's administration as the counselor to the secretary of the interior and deputy assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of the Interior. He has also served as a consultant or board member for many environmental public service organizations. His many publications include Mountains Without Handrails (1980), Defending the Environment (1971), and Playing Darts with a Rembrandt: Public and Private Rights in Cultural Treasures (1999).

Guido Carducci is Chief of the International Standards Section, Division of Cultural Heritage, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He holds a doctorate in international law from the University of Paris, a degree in comparative private law from the University of Rome, and a diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law. He has taught and published on domestic and international law, private and public, for many years. Carducci was a member of the Italian delegation to UNESCO for negotiation of the 2001 Convention for the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. His memberships include the International Law Association Committee on Cultural Heritage Law and Société Française pour le Droit International.

Gerald Beasley is Director of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. Before joining the Avery, he was Head Librarian and Associate Chief Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. He previously served as Assistant Curator for Rare Books at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, and before that as Editor of the Early Works Catalogue at the British Architectural Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). He co-authored RIBA's five-volume catalog entitled Early Printed Books, 1478-1840, which was awarded the prestigious Besterman/McColvin medal. Beasley is also co-author of three catalogs of the Mark J. Millard architectural collection for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He holds degrees from Oxford University and University College, London.

Andrew Robison is Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Since 1973, he has been building on the foundations of the Lessing J. Rosenwald donation to develop internationally distinguished collections of American and European drawings, particularly German master drawings. He has curated and been involved in many major exhibits, including "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938," "Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings," "A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt," and "From Schongauer to Holbein: Master Drawings from Basel and Berlin."

Bruce Whiteman is Head Librarian at the William Andrews Clark Library, the University of California, Los Angeles. Before moving to UCLA, he held various positions at university libraries in Canada. He is the author of books and articles on topics from bibliography and printing to book reviews and his own poetry. With Cynthia Burlingham, he co-edited the exhibition catalogue The World from Here: Treasures of the Great Libraries of Los Angeles (2002). He also has researched and written about Canadian literary and publishing history.

Brenda S. Banks is Deputy Director of the Georgia Archives and teaches archival management at Georgia State University. She is a Fellow and former president of the Society of American Archivists, and a recipient of the SAA Council Exemplary Service Award. Banks is chair of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Archives Institute, an annual program that offers general instruction in basic concepts and practices of archival administration and management of traditional and modern documentary materials. Banks has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Atlanta Fulton Library System and the Schlesinger Library Advisory Committee at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 1992, Banks was selected by the Clinton-Gore transition team to conduct a management audit of the National Archives and Records Administration and served as a White House advisor on issues related to the National Archives and the Library of Congress. Banks served as senior consultant for the Cooperative HBCU Archival Survey Project (CHASP) from 1996-2001 and more recently as coordinator for the HBCU Archives Training Project, both of which were funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Margaret Hedstrom is Associate Professor and coordinator of the Archives and Records Management specialization program at the School of Information, University of Michigan. Before joining the faculty at Michigan, she was Chief of State Records Advisory Services and Director of the Center for Electronic Records at the New York State Archives and Records Administration. Hedstrom has lectured and published widely on many aspects of archival management, electronic records, and digital preservation and is writing a book on digital preservation to be published by MIT Press. Her current research interests include digital preservation strategies, the impact of electronic communications on organizational memory and documentation, remote access to archival materials, and cultural preservation and outreach in developing countries. She holds degrees from Grinnell College and the University of Wisconsin.

Bryant F. Tolles, Jr. is Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware, where he has also recently retired as Director of the Museum Studies Program. From 1974 to 1984 he served as Director and Librarian of the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts. Tolles formerly held positions at the New Hampshire Historical Society and Tufts University. Tolles has served as an executive search and strategic planning consultant for historical societies and museums, and has published in the fields of museology and American architectural and social/cultural history. He has served as chair of the American Association of Museum's Museum Studies Committee, and is a trustee of the New Hampshire Historical Society and the Mount Washington Observatory. His many publications include Leadership for the Future: Changing Directorial Roles in American History Museums and Historical Societies (1991), New Hampshire Architecture (1979); Architecture in Salem (1983); The Grand Resort Hotels of the White Mountains: A Vanishing Architectural Legacy (1998); Summer Cottages in the White Mountains: The Architectural of Leisure and Recreation, 1870-1930 (2002) and Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks: The Architecture of a Summer Paradise, 1850-1950, (2003). He holds degrees from Boston University and Yale.

Robert Sidney (Bob) Martin currently holds the Lillian Bradshaw Endowed Chair in Library Science at Texas Woman's University. From 2001 to 2005, he served as a presidential appointee as Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington, D.C. Under his leadership, IMLS launched a new grant program to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians, and the "Museums for America" program which aims at sustaining heritage, supporting lifelong learning, and providing centers for community engagement. Martin began his career at the Barker Texas History Center (now the Center for American History) at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also held positions at the University of Texas at Arlington, Louisiana State University, and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. His many publications include Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900 (1984, 1999) and Contours of Discovery: Printed Maps Delineating the Texas and Southwestern Chapters of the Cartographic History of North America, 1513-1930 (1982). Martin earned degrees at Rice University and the University of North Texas before receiving a doctorate in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.