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

Sue Allen received the annual award of the American Printing History Association this year for her contributions to printing history. She is the foremost authority on C19 American book covers. Her research, lectures, writings, and exhibitions guide librarians and conservators in the selective preservation of English and American bindings of the C19 and early C20.

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.

Nicolas Barker, Libraries Adviser to the National Trust, is Author of Stanley Morison (1972), Bibliotheca Lindesiana (1977), and Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script and Type in the 15th Century (2nd ed. 1992). He is the editor of recent editions of John Carter's classic ABC for Book Collectors.

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.

Christopher Clarkson has held conservation positions at the Bodleian Library, the Walters Art Gallery, and the Library of Congress. An internationally renowned consultant on the care of medieval manuscripts and bindings, he is now in independent practice in Oxford.

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 écriture humanistique sur parchemin (1984) and other books. He is President of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine.

Eric Holzenberg is Director/Librarian of the Grolier Club in New York City. He is the incoming chair of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

Sandy Kita, Assistant Professor of Japanese Art at the University of Maryland, is the author of the 1996 catalog, A Hidden Treasure: Japanese Wood-block Prints in the James Austin Collection. His new book, The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e, is in the press.

D. W. Krummel is now Professor Emeritus 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). He is completing a study of the history of the concept of bibliographical records.

Deborah J. Leslie is Head of Cataloging at the Folger Shakespeare Library, before which she was a rare book catalog librarian at Yale University. She has also worked as a cataloger at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She was RBMS thesaurus editor from 1995 to 1998.

James Mosley became Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library in London, the largest library of its kind in the English-speaking world, in 1958. He was the founding editor of the Journal of the Printing Historical Society. He has written extensively on the history of European and English typography.

Paul Needham became Scheide Librarian at Princeton University in 1998, before which he worked at Sotheby's and at the Pierpont Morgan Library. Among his books is Twelve Centuries of Bookbinding:400-1600 (1979). He has given RBS Master Classes on early printed books at the Morgan and at the Huntington.

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 connected with RBS in various capacities since 1988.

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 20th 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.

Michael Ryan is Director, Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania, and he has also worked in special collections at Stanford and the University of Chicago. He has co-taught courses at the University of Pennsylvania with Daniel Traister on the reception of popular literature in the early modern period.

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.

Suzy Taraba is Head of Special Collections and University Archivist at Wesleyan University; she has also worked in Special Collections at the University of Chicago, Duke, and Columbia. She has been teaching in Rare Book School since 1987.

Daniel Traister is Curator of Research Services, Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. He has published many important articles on rare book librarianship. He has taught annually in RBS since 1983.

Michael Turner is Head of the Preservation and Conservation Department at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, before which he was Head of Special Collections at the Bodleian. Former president of the Printing Historical Society, he is the editor of Publishing History.

Michael Twyman is Emeritus 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.

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, and 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.