Author Bio(s)

Marcia J. Bates is Professor Emerita in the Department of Information Studies, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, at the University of California at Los Angeles. She has researched, published, and taught in many areas of library and information science, including user-centered design of information systems, subject access, online search techniques, and information seeking behavior. She has authored over eighty publications, including some of the most highly cited articles in the field. She has also served as Associate Dean and Department Chair. Dr Bates has consulted for a wide variety of organizations, including government, foundation, and private industry clients, as well as "dot-com" companies. Dr Bates is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has won numerous awards, including the Award of Merit, the highest award of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), and the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. ASIST has also awarded her its "Best Journal of ASIST Paper of the Year Award" twice. Web: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/bates/.

Mary Niles Maack has been on the faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles since 1986. Before moving to California she worked at the New York Public Library and later taught for ten years at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Maack has authored numerous historical and comparative studies that have appeared in a number of major refereed journals in the field. Her publications also include two books as well as book chapters and contributions to several reference books. She has served on the editorial boards of Libraries and Culture and Library Quarterly. Dr. Maack won the Justin Winsor Award of the ALA Library History Round Table in 1981 and the Jesse Shera Award of the ALA Library Research Round Table in 1992. She also received the 2005 Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCLA Department of Information Studies. She has taught courses on book history, library history, reference and information services, information institutions, public libraries and comparative and international librarianship. In addition she has lectured and consulted in fourteen countries in Africa, and in 1982-83 she held a Fulbright lectureship at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Bibliothèques in France. Web: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/maack/.