NISO Webinar - Managing & Sustaining Collaborative Collections, Part Two

Jesse is the Director, Acquisitions & E-Resource Licensing Services at Cornell University Library and has 20 years of experience in various academic library roles. He is an active member of the Future of Libraries is Open (FOLIO) project community, working to develop a flexible, community-driven, open source suite of tools for managing library work. As an active member of the library profession, Jesse has led or actively participated in conference planning committees for Ivy Plus Access Services, Voyager Mid-Atlantic User Group, E-Resources & Libraries, and the World Open Library Foundation Conference (WOLFcon). In addition, Jesse writes and speaks regularly about acquisitions and licensing methods and strategies; resource usage analysis and decision-making; streaming media; library system and discovery tool implementation and management; and open-source software development.

Jill Morris is the Executive Director of the PALCI Consortium (Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc.), made up of 69 academic and research libraries in PA, NY, NJ, and WV. For the past ten years, Jill has worked for large library consortia where her primary responsibilities have centered around collaborative collections and program design, as well as library content negotiations. Jill became PALCI's Executive Director in January 2019, after previously serving as the organization's Senior Program Officer and Associate Director. Prior to her time at PALCI, Jill held a number of positions with the NC LIVE consortium in North Carolina. Jill currently leads a number of cross-consortial projects, including the CC-PLUS initiative, funded by IMLS, to build an open source platform for the harvest, display and analysis of consortium eResource usage statistics. Jill received her MSLS from UNC Chapel Hill and holds a BA in History from SUNY Geneseo. 

Russell Michalak, MLIS, is the library director at Goldey-Beacom College and has 20-plus years of experience working in special (law & health sciences) libraries, as well as in small, mid-and-large sized academic libraries. He has been working in library administration for 15 years. Michalak regularly publishes a column in the Journal of Library Administration called PosIT, which delves into all aspects of library-related information technologies and knowledge management used to connect users to information technology. Michalak publishes and presents regularly on artificial intelligence, library leadership and management, project management, library budgets and negotiating contracts with vendors, library assessment, textbook affordability, privacy, information literacy, archives and digital collections, collection management, and implementation of library technology & EdTech tools. Michalak earned his master’s in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a bachelor’s from Occidental College.