Guests Participating in the 2006 Retreat

Lorcan Dempsey
Vice President and Chief Strategist
OCLC
Before moving to OCLC Lorcan worked for JISC in the UK, overseeing national information programs and services. He is a librarian who has
worked for library and educational organizations in Ireland, England and the US. He has consulted for the EU, and national policy and service
organizations in several countries.Lorcan has policy, research and service development experience, mostly in the area of networked information and digital libraries. He writes and speaks extensively, and can be followed on the web at Lorcan Dempsey's weblog. He is currently a member of the NISO Board and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Joan has played a central role in establishing and expanding CNI since its founding in 1990. She served as interim Executive Director of the Coalition from November of 1996 to July of 1997, following the untimely death of founding Executive Director Paul Evan Peters. Joan is responsible for programs focusing on the use of networked information to transform institutions, including New Learning Communities, Working Together, and Assessing the Academic Networked Environment.

Joan's active professional life includes membership in the Steering Committee of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, service on the board of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, work as founding chair and member of the Association of College and Research Libraries New Directions in Teaching and Learning Discussion Group, and membership in the American Library Association.

Prior to joining CNI in 1990, Joan worked at the American Council on Education, the National Institute on Postsecondary Governance and Finance, Cornell University's Mann Library, George Washington University, Georgetown University, and the State University of New York at Brockport.

In 1999 Joan completed her doctoral degree in Education Policy, Planning, and Administration--with a focus on higher education--at the University of Maryland at College Park. She earned a master's degree in Library Science from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and also completed graduate work at George Washington University and Cornell University. She earned an A.B. with honors from Vassar College.

Joan has written on a variety of topics, including collaboration between librarians and information technologists, networked information, end-user searching, and teaching and learning in the networked environment.