Greer Allen has designed publications for the Houghton Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rosenbach Museum and Library, 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.

Martin Antonetti became Curator of Rare Books at Smith College in February, before which he was Librarian of the Grolier Club. Between 1986 and 1990, he was head of Special Collections at Mills College, where he regularly taught courses in the history of books and printing.

Wm 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.

Timothy D. Barrett is Research Scientist at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. His publications include the standard Japanese Papermaking: Traditions, Tools and Techniques (1983) and other books and articles on the history of both oriental and western papermaking.

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. This year the Book Arts Press, which he founded in 1972, celebrates its 25th anniversary.

John Bidwell is Curator of Graphic Arts at Princeton University's Firestone Library, and he has also been Curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology and Librarian of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. He has written extensively on the history of American papermaking.

Brett Charbeneau became a journeyman printer at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 1994 by completing a six-year apprenticeship. Project Coordinator of the Williamsburg Imprints Program, he was recently appointed Systems Administrator at the Williamsburg Regional Library.

Christopher Clarkson directs the Book and Manuscript Conservation Workshops and their related internship program at West Dean College, Sussex. Formerly Conservation Officer at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, he also helped develop rare book conservation programs at the Library of Congress. An internationally renowned consultant on the care of medieval manuscripts and bindings, he has taught courses in RBS since 1983.

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. Earlier this year, he taught an RBS Master Class on European codicology at Princeton University.

Eric Holzenberg is cataloguer and Acting Librarian at the Grolier Club in New York City. He is the chair of the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

D. W. Krummel is Professor of Library Science and Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana. His many full-length studies include Bibliographies, Their Aims and Methods (1984) and the standard Guide for Dating Early Published Music: A Manual of Bibliographical Practices (1974).

James Mosley is Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library in London, the largest library of its kind in the English-speaking world. He is a welcome lecturer in the United States on typographical subjects. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Printing Historical Society.

Paul Needham is director of the Books and MSS Department, Sotheby's New York. Until 1990, he was Astor Curator of Printed Books & Bindings at 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). He has been associated with the RBS descriptive bibliography course since 1988.

Nicholas Pickwoad is a book conservator in private practice. Between 1992-1995, he was Conservator at the Harvard University Library, before which he was Advisor to the [English] National Trust for Conservation. This will be the 17th time he has taught his celebrated course at RBS.

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

Michael T. Ryan is Director of Special Collections at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, University of Pennsylvania, and he has also worked in special collections at Stanford and the University of Chicago. This spring, he is co-teaching a course at Penn with Daniel Traister on the reception of popular literature in the early modern and modern periods.

David Seaman is the founding director of the nationally-known Electronic Text Center and 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.

Daniel Traister is Curator of Research Services in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania. A past chair of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of ACRL, he has published important articles on rare book librarianship. He has taught annually in RBS since 1983.

Michael Twyman is head of 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.

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. The Cambridge University Press published his American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields in 1995. In January, he received the American Printing History Association's annual award for his contributions to printing history.