UCITA: A Guide to Understanding and Action
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Panelist Biographies

JAMES G. NEAL is currently Dean of University Libraries and Sheridan Director of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he was Dean of University Libraries at Indiana University, and held administrative positions in the libraries at Penn State, Notre Dame and the City University of New York.

He has served on the Executive Board of the American Library Association, was 1997-1998 chair of OCLCšs Research Library Advisory Council, and was 1997-98 president of the Association of Research Libraries. He represented the American library community as an advisor to the U.S. delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization diplomatic conference on copyright in Geneva. He chaired the ARL Information Policies Committee for four years and has headed the ARL Working Group on Copyright Issues since its formation in 1994. He was recently appointed a member of IFLAšs Committee on Copyright And Other Legal Matters. He was the first president of the newly-formed Chesapeake Information and Research Library Alliance (CIRLA), a consortium of research libraries in the mid-Atlantic region.

At Hopkins, he serves on numerous academic and technology planning and policy groups, and is on the Board of Project Muse, the initiative to publish electronically the journals of the Hopkins Press. He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, consultant and published researcher with a focus in the areas of organizational change, human resource development, scholarly communication, intellectual property, library fundraising, and the impact of new technologies. He is currently leading the Eisenhower Library at Hopkins in a successful $50 million capital campaign. He was selected 1997 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year by ALAšs Association of College and Research Libraries.

RODNEY PETERSEN is the Director of Policy and Planning in the Office of Information Technology at the University of Maryland. He is also the director and founder of Project NEThics - a group whose mission is to ensure responsible use of information technology through user education and enforcement of acceptable use guidelines. He received his law degree from Wake Forest University. His current research focuses on policies and practices concerning copyright ownership at research Universities. Rodney is a frequent speaker, writer, and consultant on issues of Internet law, policy, and ethics. More information is available at http://www.oit.umd.edu/users/rodney

SARAH K. (SALLY) WIANT has been Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University since 1978. She teaches courses in Intellectual Property, Admiralty and occasionally Advanced Torts, and supervises the Judicial Internship Program in the law school.

She obtained her B.A. from Western State College in 1968, her M.L.S. degree from the University of North Texas in 1970, and her J.D. degree from Washington and Lee in 1978. She served as Assistant Law Librarian at Texas Tech Law School from 1970-1972 and Assistant Law Librarian at Washington and Lee from 1972-1978.

Ms. Wiant is a former member of the Executive Board of the American Association of Law Libraries. She has served on and chaired various committees of AALL and Special Libraries Association, including the Copyright Committee, and represented SLA at the Conference on Fair Use (for the National Information Infrastructure). She has also served as a member of both the ABA and AALS committees on libraries and has been a member of the American Association of Law Schools Accreditation Committee. She is a frequent speaker and has written widely on copyright issues, including articles for SLA's Information Outlook and AALL's Spectrum.

CATHERINE WOJEWODZKI is a Librarian in the Reference Department at the University of Delaware Library. A former State Representative in the Delaware Legislature, she has been honored by the Delaware Library Association and ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom for her work to preserve and extend public access to information.

She holds B.A. and Master of Public Administration degrees from the University of Delaware and an M.L.S. from Rutgers.

Ms. Wojewodzki is currently an ALA Chapter Councilor. She chairs the New Castle County Library Review Board and serves on the Delaware Council on Libraries and the Governor's Task Force on School Libraries. A longtime member of the League of Women Voters and citizen activist, she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy with a focus on citizen engagement.

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