Greer Allen has designed publications for Colonial Williamsburg, the Houghton, the Metropolitan, the Rosenbach, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and many other libraries and museums. He was formerly Yale University Printer.

Sue Allen is recognized as the foremost authority on 19th-century American book covers. Her research, lectures, writings, and exhibitions guide librarians and conservators in the selective preservation of English and American bindings of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She has taught in RBS since 1983.

Martin Antonetti became Curator of Rare Books at Smith College in 1997, before which he was Librarian of the Grolier Club. Until 1990, he was head of Special Collections at Mills College, where he regularly taught courses in the history of books and printing.

Paul N. Banks founded the nation's first book conservation education program at Columbia University in 1981, and he has continued to teach in the program since its transfer to the University of Texas in 1992. Between 1964 and 1981, he was Conservator at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

William P. Barlow, Jr is a partner in the Oakland, CA, accounting firm of Barlow & Hughan. He has advised many individuals and institutions on bibliographical tax matters both in a professional capacity and as an officer of library friends' groups.

Terry Belanger founded RBS in 1983 at Columbia University. Since 1992, he has been University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia. Last year the Book Arts Press, which he founded in 1972, celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Morris L. Cohen was Professor of Law and head of the law libraries successively at Harvard and Yale before his retirement as librarian in 1993. He is a well-known legal bibliographer and collector.

Albert Derolez is a professor at the Free Universities of Brussels; he was formerly Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Library of the State University of Ghent. He is the author of Codicologie des manuscrits en icriture humanistique sur parchemin (1984) and other books. He is President of the Comiti International de Paliographie Latine.

Mirjam Foot is Director of Collections and Preservation in the British Library. She is the author of many books and articles on the history of bookbinding, including Studies in the History of Bookbinding (1993) and (with Howard Nixon) The History of Decorated Bookbinding in England (1992). She delivered the 1997 Panizzi Lectures at the British Library.

Eric Holzenberg is Director/Librarian of the Grolier Club in New York City. He is the outgoing chair of the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College & Research Libraries.

Sandy Kita, Assistant Professor of Japanese Art at the University of Maryland, is the author of articles and books on Ukiyo-e, including the 1996 catalog, A Hidden Treasure: Japanese Woodblock Prints in the James Austin Collection. His book on Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei will be published this year by the University of Hawaii Press.

D. W. Krummel is Professor of Library Science and Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana. His writings in music printing and the history of bibliography include Bibliographies, Their Aims and Methods (1984).

Deborah J. Leslie is Rare Book Catalog Librarian at Yale University, before which she worked at the Library Company of Philadelphia.

James Mosley is Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library in London, the largest library of its kind in the English-speaking world. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Printing Historical Society.

Paul Needham became Curator of the Scheide Collection at the Princeton University Library earlier this year, before which he worked at Sotheby's and the Pierpont Morgan Library. He has given RBS Master Classes on early printed books at the Morgan and at the Huntington Library.

Richard Noble is Rare Books Cataloguer at the John Hay Library, Brown University. He is co-author (with Joan Crane) of Guy Davenport: A Descriptive Bibliography 1947-1995 (1996).

Nicholas Pickwoad is a book conservator in private practice. From 1992 to 1995, he was Conservator at the Harvard University Library, before which he was Advisor to the [English] National Trust for Conservation. This will be the 19th time he has taught his celebrated course at RBS.

Daniel Pitti became Project Director at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in 1997, before which he was Librarian for Advanced Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description initiative.

David Seaman is the founding director of the nationally-known Electronic Text Center an on-line archive at the University of Virginia. He lectures and writes frequently on SGML, the Internet, and the creation and use of electronic texts in the humanities.

Samuel A. Streit is Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Brown University, where his duties have included renovating the John Hay Library, developing public relations strategies, and undertaking a major expansion of the Friends of the Library.

Suzy Taraba became University Archivist at Wesleyan University in 1997, before which she worked in Special Collections at the University of Chicago and at Duke University, where she was head of the Rare Materials Cataloging Unit.

Merrily E. Taylor became University Librarian at Brown University after working in libraries at Yale and Columbia Universities. Her duties have required extensive involvement with planning, budgeting, public relations, building projects, and fund-raising. .

Daniel Traister is Curator of Research Services in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published important articles on rare book librarianship. He has taught annually in RBS since 1983.

Michael Twyman is Professor in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He is the author of Lithography 1800-1850 (1970), Early Lithographed Books (1990), and Early Lithographed Music (1996), among other works on the history of lithography and printing.

David Warrington, Librarian for Special Collections at the Harvard Law School since 1986, has worked at the Lilly Library and in the antiquarian book trade.

Michael Winship is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He edited the final three volumes of the nine-volume Bibliography of American Literature. He is the author of American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields (1995). He has taught annually in RBS since 1983.

Helena Zinkham worked as a reference and technical services librarian at both the Maryland and New-York Historical societies before joining the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress, where she is head of the Technical Services Section.