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 18th time he has taught his celebrated course at RBS.

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. In 1997, the Book Arts Press, which he founded in 1972, celebrated its 25th anniversary.

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.