Teresa McManus
Chief Librarian
Bronx Community College, City University of New York (CUNY)
teresa.mcmanus@bcc.cuny.edu
Moderator

Curtis Kendrick
University Librarian
City University of New York
curtis.kendrick@mail.cuny.edu

Biography
Mr. Curtis L. Kendrick was appointed University Librarian at the City University of New York in September 2004. Prior to coming to CUNY he served as Director of the Access Services Division of the Columbia University Libraries. From 1992 to 1998 he was Assistant Director of Harvard University Library for the Harvard Depository. Mr Kendrick has also held positions at SUNY Stony Brook and Oberlin College. He is active within the American Library Association and has authored numerous publications. A graduate of Brown University, Mr. Kendrick earned his MLS from Simmons College and his MBA from Emory University.

John Townsend
Executive Director
New York State Higher Education Initiative
townsendj@nyshei.org

Biography
John Townsend is the executive director of NYSHEI, the New York State Higher Education Initiative, a member-governed organization of public and private academic institutions.
Prior to joining NYSHEI, Townsend served as Director of Information Technology Services at SUNY Cobleskill, Program Administrator for the New York State Conservation/Preservation Program and Head of the Conservation Treatments Laboratory at the New York Public Library, as well as other library positions. He has also worked as an independent consultant for preservation and for strategic planning and evaluation with a variety of national and international clients.

Kate Wittenberg
Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC)
Managing Director, Columbia Digital Knowledge Ventures
kw49@columbia.edu

Biography
Kate Wittenberg is Director of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC). Kate serves as project director for the electronic publications Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), Columbia Earthscape, Gutenberg-e, Digital Anthropology Resources in Teaching, and the National Science Digital Library. Kate's work focuses in particular on the creation of sustainable cost-recovery business plans for digital scholarship and education, digital rights management, collaborative organizational models, and the evaluation of use and costs of scholarly and educational digital resources. EPIC is attempting to create relationships among scholars, technologists, publishers, librarians, and national and international partners that move beyond the organizational and disciplinary categories within the traditional university infrastructure.