Massachusetts Digital Library Initiative Conference

Liz Bishoff

Liz Bishoff is currently the Vice President, Digital Collection and Metadata Service, OCLC. Previously she was Executive Director of the Colorado Digitization Program. Liz has worked with libraries and museums in Alabama, North Carolina, Missouri, Minnesota, New Mexico, and California on various aspects of their collaborative digitization initiatives. Liz has led the development of collaborative best practices in metadata, including the recently released Western States Metadata Dublin Core Best Practices.

Previously Liz was Vice President, Member Services at OCLC. Her responsibilities included management of OCLC relationships with external organizations, including the national libraries, professional library-related organizations and government relations.

Liz has extensive experience in public libraries. She was the principal librarian for Support Services at Pasadena (California) Public Library. Additionally she has been a medium size public library director, school media specialist, and cataloger in her 33 year library career. She has taught in the graduate library programs at Dominican University (formerly Rosary College) and Emporia State University. Liz is currently a member of the ALA Council and is a past ALA Treasurer and former member of the ALA Board. Liz holds an MLS from Rosary College, and has post-graduate work in public administration at Roosevelt University.

Dee Brennan

Dee Brennan is the Chief of Public Services for the Boston Public Library. Prior to her appointment as Chief, Ms. Brennan served as the Acting Director of Public Services. She began work at the Library as the Regional Administrator operating regional and statewide services provided by the Boston Public Library. Prior to her coming to the Boston Public Library, she was Director of the Reading Public Library, Reading, MA. She also previously served as the Director of the Amesbury Public Library (Amesbury, MA) and as Director of the Swampscott Public Library (Swampscott, MA). She began her professional library career as a technical services librarian with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She worked as a Technical Services Librarian at Northeastern University's School of Law and as a librarian at the Beverly Public Library (Beverly, MA). Prior to her first directorship at the Swampscott Public Library, she was the Assistant Director, Head of Information Services at the Winchester Public Library (Winchester, MA).

Her professional activities have ranged from service as President of the Massachusetts Library Association to work on various task forces of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. She was also Chair of the State Advisory Council on Libraries and was President of the North of Boston Library Exchange Inc. (NOBLE) and of the Eastern Massachusetts Regional Library System. She has served on the Public Library Association's State Relations Committee and Intellectual Freedom Committee. She holds a B.A. in History and Economics from Newton College and an M.S. in Library Science from Simmons College.