Program Manager for Academic Open Source Repository Software, LYRASIS
Evviva Weinraub Lajoie is the Vice Provost for the University at Buffalo Libraries. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston University in History and her MLIS from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to her role at SUNY Buffalo, she has had increasingly prominent roles at Yale University on the Research4Life programs, Tufts University, Oregon State University, the Digital Preservation Network (DPN), and most recently served as the Associate University Librarian for Collections & Technologies at Northwestern University. She is an active leader in ALA, IFLA, and serves on the Program Steering Committee for Hathi Trust. She has published and spoken extensively on library management, user experience, and open source software development, communities, and collaboration.
Vice Provost for University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo
Academic Associate Dean For Computer, Data & Information Sciences, University of Wisconsin
Kristin Eschenfelder is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Information School. She is a scholar of data curation, and recently finished a Sloan Foundation funded study of sustainability and social science data archives which appears in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology as “Financial maintenance of social science data archives: Four case studies of long-term infrastructure work” She enjoys teaching future librarians about database design and program assessment.