Mike Keller, University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources and Publisher of HighWire Press, Stanford University. Keller currently chairs the Digital Library Federation, a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering the use of electronic information technologies to extend library collections and services.

William Arms, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell. Arms is leading the integration component of the NSF NSDL (National Science Digital Library), a distributed effort coordinating tool development and digitized content created as a result of five years of NSF funding for DL projects.

Dan Atkins, Professor in the School of Information, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and director of the Alliance for Community Technology, at the University of Michigan. Dan chaired the NSF "Cyberinfrastructure" report and is leading an NSF effort at implementing the cyberinfrastructure plan.

Martin Blume, Editor-in-Chief, American Physical Society. Marty received a 1981 Lawrence award for his definitive contributions to the theoretical analysis of magnetic phenomena in neutron scattering, for his work on relaxation and critical phenomena, and for his scientific leadership in solid state physics, especially of the emerging program based on the National Synchrotron Light Source. He is also a former Deputy Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Lorcan Demsey, VP for Research, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). OCLC is the largest library cooperative in the world, representing 45,000 libraries. Demsy heads the world's largest digital library research program at OCLC and he is a former co-director at UKOLN (UK Office for Library and Information Networking).

Dan Greenstein, University Librarian and Director of the UC California Digital Library. Dan is responsible for UC coordinated university-wide digital library developments. Prior to his UC position he was the Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation.

Carl Lagoze, Digital Library Scientist, Cornell. He co-led the OAI-PMH (with Herbert Van de Sompel) and he is a co-creator of FEDORA, a digital object repository structure. Mr. Lagoze is the co-inventor of Dienst, a widely deployed protocol and architecture for distributed document libraries. He is also the co-author of the Warwick Framework, a modular metadata model for digital content, which is a conceptual basis for the Resource Description Framework (RDF), now a WWW metadata standard.

Cliff Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. Prior to CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation, where he managed the MELVYL information system and the intercampus internet for the University.

Gary Marchionini, the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Information Science in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is editor-in-chief for the ACM Transactions on Information Systems and serves on the editorial boards of a dozen scholarly journals.

Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress. As director of Council on Library and Information Resources, she set the research agenda for libraries both in the USA and world-wide. Marcum has been president of the Commission on Preservation and Access, and Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at Catholic University of America.