Brynne Norton
Brynne Norton (she/her) is the Head, Resource Sharing and Reserves, at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has been in this position since 2019 and has spent over 16 years working in access services including leading resource sharing in a private university, a liberal arts college, a government library, a community college, and now at an R1 research library. She has a MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and an MA in Liberal Arts from McDaniel College . Her research interests include career paths and automation in resource sharing.
K. Zdepski
K. Zdepski (they/them) has been the Resource Sharing Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 2017. They are an IDS Network Peer Advisor and an active member of the Boston Library Consortium Resource Sharing Community of Interest. They have an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College (now Simmons University). Their interests include evaluation and improvement of library resource sharing systems, and modernizing interlibrary loan copyright assessment methods.
Jacob Long
Jacob Long (he/him) has worked in resource sharing since September 2023, when he started his current role as the Interlibrary Loan Coordinator at Bryn Mawr College. He spent his childhood practicing for work in resource sharing by placing an endless array of borrowing requests through his public library. He is a member of the RSCVD Steering Committee, the RUSA STARS International ILL Committee, and RUSA Budget & Finance. He has an MSLS from Pennsylvania Western University. He is particularly interested in global resource sharing, rethinking digital sharing strategies, and vendor agnostic resource sharing resources & communities.
lapis cohen
lapis cohen (he | they) is a Library Specialist in Resource Sharing and union member (AFSCME Local 590) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philly. Locally, in 2019 he co-founded, alongside Ken Raining, Ben Webster, and Megan Brown, the ongoing “Library 101: How Do I Library?” outreach and education project. Globally, in 2021 he co-created, with Dennis Massie and Brian Miller, the International ILL Toolkit, a freely available, crowd-sourced online asset, designed to promote and enable greater ease of global resource sharing amongst libraries. lapis is keenly interested in mutual aid, community, and collaboration – specifically in cases leading to creation or improvement of systems, tools and workflows.
Megan Gaffney
Megan Gaffney (she/her) has worked in academic libraries for over 20 years and currently is head of the Collections, Acquisitions, and Resource Sharing Department at the University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press. In this role, she provides leadership on issues and initiatives pertaining to the development, management, sharing, delivery, storage, and review of the Library’s general collections, both physical and electronic. She also serves as the library liaison for Romance Languages and Literatures and the Latin American and Iberian Studies program. She holds an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Delaware.