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Adam Snook
OpenAthens
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No bio available at this time.Adebimpe Odunjo
Lilburn Middle School, Gwinnett County Public Schools
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Dr. Adebimpe Odunjo, an esteemed educator with over 25 years of dedication to the field of
education, is a visionary Teacher and Instructional Development Coach.
Her passion lies in empowering new teachers with the necessary tools, resources, and cutting-edge solutions to master instructional techniques that ignite student achievement. Dr. Odunjo's doctoral research in reading reform and teaching methodologies has equipped her with a comprehensive understanding of effective educational strategies.
Throughout her career, she has been recognized with awards and accolades, such as 2020 Teacher of the Year Award, for her exceptional work, Excellence in Instruction, for her laser like focus on enhancing learning for students, and Instructional Technology Innovator, for her dedication to implementing and
integrating instructional technology to engage and inspire student learning.
As a natural leader, Dr. Odunjo is driven by a genuine desire to lead transformative change and inspire others. Her continuous pursuit of opportunities to elevate instructional practices is fueled by her profound
belief in the power of education to uplift lives.
Alex Yagoub
OpenAthens
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No bio available at this time.Angela Stanley
Georgia Public Library Service
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Angela Stanley serves as Assistant State Librarian and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Library Innovation and Collaboration with GPLS, part of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. She previously directed GPLS’ Archival Services and Digital Initiatives unit and has worked in public libraries of all shapes and sizes. She is Past President of the Society of Georgia Archivists and currently serves on the Governor’s Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council.
Angiah Davis
Georgia State University Library (Perimeter College)
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Angiah Davis provides leadership and public services as the University Library's department head at the Clarkston campus and Perimeter online. Her professional interests include instruction, research and team development.
Beth Bernhardt
Oxford University Press
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No bio available at this time.Brad Baxter
GALILEO/UGA Libraries
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Brad has worked at the University of Georgia Libraries since 1989 and has been involved with the GALILEO initiative since its inception. As an early GALILEO developer, he navigated the challenges of building systems for the emerging World Wide Web, learning new programming languages and frameworks, and implementing authentication and usage statistics. Over the years, the Web, development tools, and GALILEO itself have continually changed. Brad finds it rewarding to work with a talented team to keep GALILEO evolving in a modern environment.
Britney O’Mara
Chattahoochee Technical College
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Britney O’Mara is the Systems Librarian for Chattahoochee Technical College. She’s been part of the Technical College System of Georgia since 2010 in various roles and also has several years of experience with the Cobb County Public Library System. In her current role, her main goals are to ensure all online aspects for the library are functioning properly, including Alma/Primo, databases, and virtual library services, just to name a few. In her free time, Britney enjoys reading, video games, and trying to entertain her two orange cats, Ace and Pippin.
Brittany Bryan
EBSCO
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Brittany has over 20 years of experience in continuing education, marketing, strategic communications, public relations, and sales, with a focus on working with state and local government agencies, K-12 schools, and public libraries. As a Regional Sales Manager at EBSCO, she helps support educators and libraries by providing valuable resources that empower lifelong learning. Brittanyhas a deep understanding of EBSCO’s tools on GALILEO and enjoys finding ways to help communities engage with these resources and make the most of what they offer.
In her spare time, Brittany is passionate about giving back to her community. She enjoys helping nonprofits and community groups share their stories and actively volunteers with local voter services and city planning organizations, focusing on initiatives that promote civic engagement and community-driven development.
Chandler Christoffel
UGA Libraries
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Chandler Christoffel will be the moderator for the keynote panel discussion on AI in libraries.
He is the Director of Academic Engagement at the University of Georgia Libraries, where he has also served as a User Experience Librarian and Science Research and Instruction Librarian. Prior to joining UGA, he worked as a Distance Education and Research and Instruction Librarian at George Washington University's Gelman Library. Chandler is interested in developing strong teams and experimenting with different service models. He is also interested in exploring various approaches to training and professional development, particularly around emerging areas like AI Literacy.
Christi Jones-Hobgood
Pickens High School (Pickens County)
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Christi Jones-Hobgood holds a doctor of arts in English pedagogy from Murray State University. She serves as the ELA department chair for Pickens High School where her teaching load ranges from English 1 to AP Literature and Composition. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at Chattahoochee Technical College and teaches ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102. She has brought the inaugural course offering of AP Seminar to PHS which serves as the impetus for introducing accessible research skills through GALILEO. She seeks to make the process of research via GALILEO less daunting for teachers and more accessible for students.
Cleo Joyce
Beanstack
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Cleo Joyce leads the Beanstack library success team. A former Georgia librarian, Cleo has over 10 years of experience in public libraries, youth services, and programming for all ages. She is a dedicated advocate for public libraries, driven by a passion for fostering vibrant communities and deepening reading engagement to build lasting social connections.
Daniel Zeiger
Georgia Public Library Service
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Daniel Zeiger is the Director of Information Technology for the Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS), where he oversees IT operations and strategy supporting Georgia’s 60 public library systems. A recognized leader in the field, he was named a 2023 Library Journal Mover & Shaker for his work in implementing scalable, low-maintenance technology solutions across the state. Daniel holds a BBA in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University.
Danielle Costello
UGA Libraries
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Danielle Costello (she/her) is a librarian at University of Georgia where she teaches library instruction, creates active learning resources, and develops outreach programming for the student body. She was the 2024-2025 President of the ALA Games & Gaming Roundtable and also serves on the event programming and grants committees. Outside of work she moonlights as a cleric and occasionally as a capybara and enjoys how games and play can add whimsy to life.
David Joyner
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
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David Joyner is Associate Dean of Off-Campus & Special Initiatives and Executive Director of Online Education & OMSCS in Georgia Tech's College of Computing, where he also holds the Zvi Galil PEACE Chair. His research focuses on online education and learning at scale, especially as they intersect with for-credit offerings at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
His emphasis is on designing learning experiences that leverage the opportunities of online learning to compensate for the loss of synchronous collocated class time. This includes leveraging artificial intelligence for student support and assignment evaluation, facilitating student communities in large online classes, and investigating strategies for maintainable and interactive presentation of online instructional material.
He has written four books on computer science education, learning at scale, and AI for teaching. He has also served as Chair for the Steering Committee of the ACM Learning @ Scale conference, as well as the General Chair for the 2019, 2020, and 2024 conferences.
Joyner has received several awards for his work in teaching online, including the 2023 Georgia Tech Outstanding Professional Education Award, the 2022 College of Computing Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award, the 2019 USG Regents' Teaching Excellence Award for Online Teaching, the 2018 Georgia Tech Center for Teaching & Learning Curriculum Innovation Award, and the 2016 Georgia Tech College of Computing Lockheed Excellence in Teaching Award. He was also named to the Georgia Tech Alumni Association's 40 Under 40 in 2022.
Donald “Donnie” Summerlin
UGA Libraries
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Donnie Summerlin is the Digital Projects Archivist at the University of Georgia Libraries, where he manages the ongoing effort to digitize and preserve Georgia’s historical newspapers. He earned a BA in history from UGA, an MA in history from Georgia College & State University, and an MLIS from Valdosta State University. His writing credits include articles published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Archival Outlook, and the Georgia Library Quarterly.
Edward Hatfield
New Georgia Encyclopedia
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Before joining the New Georgia Encyclopedia as managing editor, Edward Hatfield was an instructor at Kennesaw State University and Emory University. He holds a doctorate in U.S. history from Emory University, and is a founding member of the editorial board at Atlanta Studies, an open access journal published by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.
Evan Michael Bush
Georgia Public Library Service
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Evan Michael Bush is the Director of Youth Services at the Georgia Public Library Service. He has over 26 years of experience in public libraries, early childhood and reading education. Evan has represented children’s librarianship at the local, state and national level, including three ALA award committees – The Caldecott, Pura Belpré, and Batchelder Awards. He is passionate about training children’s librarians and improving literacy across the state of Georgia.
Femi Jayeola
Kennesaw State University
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Femi Jayeola serves as a KSU Libraries advisor on trends, legal requirements, and best practices regarding affordable course content (such as OER and LibGuides), open educational practices (such as open pedagogy and technologies), open licensing, and ensuring fair use and copyright compliance. She also provides consultation services, workshops, online tools, and outreach related to OER, openly licensed content, library licensed materials, and other affordable course materials. Additionally, Jayeola, collaborates with teaching faculty in the identification, adoption, creation, and assessment of open and affordable course content, and assist with integrating affordable materials into their curriculum, D2L, or other course settings.
Jaime McLemore
Chattahoochee Technical College
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Jaime McLemore is the Campus Librarian for the Woodstock Campus at Chattahoochee Technical College. She is also the marketing chair for Chat Tech libraries. In her role as marketing chair, she focuses on promoting the library, collections, workshops and resources through events, displays and physical and electronic promotional materials. Her goal is to help students, faculty and staff be comfortable in the library and to learn about all the wonderful services and resources that are available to them. She received her MLIS from Clark Atlanta University and has experience working in public and academic libraries.
Jean Cook
University of West Georgia
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Jean Cook has been a librarian at the University of West Georgia since 2007. Prior to starting at UWG, she worked for Cobb County Public Library System as well as Southern Polytechnic State University and the University of Alabama libraries. She has degrees in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, and Library and Information Studies. As the Head of the Learning And Research Services team, she helps to ensure that UWG faculty, staff, and students have access to adequate and appropriate materials and services for their programs as well as provides timely instruction and reference help as appropriate. She admins the library's reference services like email and chat as well as asynchronous services like the research guides and website. Jean Cook is a subject librarian to the College of Education, Perry College of Mathematics, Computing, and Sciences, and Tanner Health School of Nursing. Her research interests include effective library support for STEM programs and library instruction and reference in general.
Jef Whatley
GALILEO
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Jef Whatley is the Training and Support Specialist for the GALILEO support services team, where he coordinates and delivers training opportunities for librarians and media specialists using their available GALILEO resources. He has worked extensively in instructional support and also has over a decade of research librarianship experience, both in public and academic libraries. With a multi-disciplinary background, Jef loves to find customized solutions that cater to your users' unique needs
Jeff Gallant
GALILEO
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Jeff Gallant has been with ALG since 2014 when it was a pilot program. He regularly consults with new open education programs and presents on program management, strategic planning, grant programs, data collection, and reporting. He has been a mentor in the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program since its inception in 2017, a mentoring faculty member of the AAC&U Institute on OER since its inception in 2021, and a co-author of The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers.
Jessica Banks
Columbus State University
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Jessica VanValkenburgh Banks is Associate Professor of Middle Grades Education/Curriculum and Instruction at Columbus State University, where she teaches a variety of in-person and online courses. She specializes in parent and family involvement in education. Her most recent research has also included best practices in science education, mentoring new and current teachers, and how to best support current teachers as they continue their education.
Dr. Banks prides herself on her service to the community. She enjoys working with local school districts to improve parent involvement. She also prefers to work on action research projects that will immediately impact the university and community. In Spring 2023, she was awarded the College of Education and Health Professions Service Award for her ongoing commitment to the college and the community. In Spring 2024 she was awarded the College of Education and Health Professions Online Teaching award for her excellence in online education and the unwavering support she gives her students.
John Stephens
GALILEO
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John Stephens is the Assistant Director for Licensing and Collections at GALILEO, and previously worked in libraires at Georgia Gwinnett College, Mercer University, and University of Georgia. John’s professional interests include open access, web accessibility, copyright, and anything related to negotiations and library acquisitions.
Julie Walker
Georgia Public Library Service
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As state librarian, Julie has established the Georgia Public Library Service as a responsive and trusted partner to Georgia’s libraries, and as a national leader in library innovation and collaboration. As vice chancellor for Libraries and Archives, she oversees GALILEO, Georgia's virtual library; GIL, the gateway to information resources held in University System of Georgia libraries; Affordable Learning Georgia, offering open educational resources to USG students; Georgia State Archives; and the Georgia State Records Center. In 2023, she was appointed by Gov. Brian Kemp to the Georgia Council on Literacy. She was elected president of the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), an independent organization of the principal library officials in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and two territories, in 2022. In 2017, she was awarded the Nix-Jones Award, the highest honor of the Georgia Library Association that recognizes substantial contributions to the library profession. Julie serves as a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, the advisory board of Valdosta State University’s School of Library and Information Science, and the advisory committee of the University of Georgia’s Certified Public Manager program. She is chair of the Georgia Certification Board for Librarians and serves on Georgia's Digital Connectivity Advisory Council. She is a graduate of the University System of Georgia’s Accelerated Leadership Academy and USG’s Executive Leadership Institute and Leadership Athens.
Justin Ellis
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Justin Ellis serves as the Digital Learning and Instruction Librarian for the Georgia Tech Library and as a liaison to the College of Design. As a member of the Academic Engagement department’s Instruction Team, Justin collaborates with peers and faculty to develop multi-modal workshops and create digital instructional materials for multimedia resources, emerging technologies, and data, media, and AI literacy.
Kara Krewer
New Georgia Encyclopedia
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No bio available at this time.Katherine Poland
Digital Library of Georgia
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Katie Poland is the National Digital Newspaper Program manager at UGA, digitizing historic Georgia newspapers for inclusion in the Library of Congress’ countrywide database, Chronicling America. She has previously worked on NDNP in Illinois and Wisconsin and will happily talk an ear off about newspapers and microfilm. She holds BAs in English and philosophy from Northwestern University and an MSLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Kathryn Manis
Digital Library of Georgia
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Kathryn Manis is the Program Lead at the Digital Library of Georgia, where she partners with cultural heritage institutions across the state to make their collections freely accessible and leads work on grant projects, programming, and events.
Ken Bonney
Niche Academy
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Ken Bonney is the Director of Customer Success at Niche Academy. He has spent nearly 26 years in the library industry, training and or consulted over 400 library systems. In his spare time, he is the ILS Administrator for the Hawaii State Public Library System and has spent six years on his community library board. Ken has a BA and MA from BYU, and post graduate work from UCLA. He is also striving to be a campfire level ukulele player.
Kim Gunter
Fulton County Schools
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No bio available at this time.Lauren Campbell
Novelist (EBSCO)
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Lauren worked in public libraries for 13 years in two large library systems and six branches before joining the NoveList team in 2021. Most of her library career was in children's services, and storytimes will always hold a special place in her heart. She is passionate about early literacy and instilling a love of learning through reading.
She is currently a Senior Readers' Advisory Librarian in the Reader Content and Services department, where she helps create products and services aimed at readers.
Her favorite book growing up was The Giver by Lois Lowry. Today, you’ll probably find her reading either witty romance, or fantasy/sci-fi with complex, well-developed, or sarcastic characters.
When she's not at work, she enjoys hanging out and hiking with her family, starting crochet projects, and refinishing old furniture.
Li Zhang
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Li Zhang is the Intellectual Property Librarian at the Georgia Institute of Technology Library. She helps disseminate intellectual property information and connect inventors and entrepreneurs to rich research resources. Additionally, working with her subject liaison colleagues, Li assists students and researchers with their research needs through email, individual research consultations, and course-integrated instruction.
Lucy Harrison
GALILEO
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Lucy Harrison is a University System of Georgia associate vice chancellor and executive director of GALILEO. She has served in her position since 2016. Before that, Harrison was the director of library services for the Florida Virtual Campus, and she also served in various roles at the College Center for Library Automation in Florida. She received her master's degree in library and information sciences from Florida State University.
McKenzie Baldwin
Hall County Library System
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Mckenzie Baldwin serves as the Marketing and Media Technician for the Hall County Library System, where she has spent the last eight years bridging the gap between library services and community engagement.
Michelle Jones
Columbus State University
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Michelle Jones is Head of Research Services/Senior Associate Director of Research and Professor of Library Science at Columbus State University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Science in Library Service from Clark Atlanta University. She has taught an information literacy course in face-to-face, hybrid, and virtual formats. She provides library instruction for the subject areas of Education and Kinesiology. Her research has focused on African American women's studies and current issues within academic libraries.
Mike White
GALILEO
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Mike White is a GALILEO support analyst. In his role, Mike provides functional and technical support to library staff across Georgia, as well as managing services such as EBSCO Discovery Service. For the past 19 years, he has worked at the University System of Georgia, including fourteen at GALILEO and five in USG customer service. He earned his bachelor’s degree in information technology from Clayton State University. In his free time, White is an internationally published freelance photographer.
Rachel Evans
UGA Libraries
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Rachel Evans currently serves as the user experience (UX) librarian within the discovery and digital services department at the University of Georgia Libraries since January 2025.
Rachel previously served as the University of Georgia Alexander Campbell King Law Library's Metadata Services and Special Collections Librarian from 2018 to 2024, and UGA School of Law's Web Developer and Digital Media Specialist from 2012 to 2018. She has also served various roles in three other libraries since 2008, earning her bachelor's degrees in art and music from LaGrange College and her Master of Library and Information Science from Florida State University.
In her spare time she serves as assistant director of local non-profit Firefly Homeschool Community, a secular hub of parents that teach cohorts of one another's K-12 students. In this context, Rachel will share strategies and techniques she has used to integrate technology and digital literacy into a homeschool computer lab with lessons involving GALILEO and DLG K-12 resources.
Russell Palmer
GALILEO
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Russell Palmer is an assistant director at GALILEO, where he is in charge of the support services team. He and his team work on the development of GALILEO, new intergrations (such as OpenAthens), sand ystem report requests. Prior to GALILEO, Palmer worked at LYRASIS for 14 years in various positions. He received his master's degree in library and information science from Florida State University.
Seamus Narron
GALILEO/University of Georgia
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Seamus Narron is a lead developer for GALILEO and GIL at the University of Georgia, where he primarily works on the GALILEO Search and Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) portals.
Sean Maxwell
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Sean Maxwell has extensive experience in sales and solutions management within the technology sector, holding pivotal roles at notable firms. At Archer Technology Group, Inc, Sean served as Director of Sales, driving profitable growth in data networking and cloud solutions. As National Account Manager at Insight, Sean focused on Cisco solutions for Fortune 500 clients in Los Angeles. At Xtelesis Corporation, Sean marketed managed professional services and developed a data networking practice. Sean further advanced organizational transformation as a VMware Senior Net/Sec Client Solutions Architect from 2014 to 2022. Currently, as a Client Engineer at Google, Sean specializes in hybrid-cloud adoption and data center migrations. Sean's career also includes a role as Solutions Manager at NEC and a senior management position in the Accenture and Cisco Business Group, where innovative solutions were delivered to Fortune 100 clients.
Sean Purcell
GIL/GALILEO
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Sean Purcell manages the development and systems teams for GALILEO and GIL at the University of Georgia, focusing on library systems, integrations, and reliable access to resources for institutions statewide.
Shruti Murali
Amazon, Alexa Personality
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Shruti Murali is a product leader focused on mental health, AI, and education. With a background in child development psychology, she designs emotionally intelligent, conversational AI systems that support reflection, learning, and well-being.
She has worked on large-scale conversational AI agents for organizations including Apple, Instacart, JPMorgan Chase, and Amazon, and was part of the founding teams of two AI startups.
She is especially passionate about bringing liberal arts and social science voices into the AI ecosystem, and believes educators and librarians play a critical role in shaping ethical, human-centered technology. Her work emphasizes accessibility, information literacy, and AI as a complement—not a replacement—for human care and expertise.
Susanna Smith
Georgia Highlands College
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Susanna has been at Georgia Highlands College since 2011, first as a Reference and Instruction Librarian and now as the Collection Management Librarian. She received her master’s in Library and Information Science from Florida State in 2006. After receiving her second master's in Instructional Technology and Design in 2018, she started working with GHC’s CETL, facilitating faculty workshops on a wide variety of topics. She got involved with Affordable Learning Georgia in 2016 and since then has been on grant teams (both ALG and beyond), participated in grant reviews, and currently serves as the Library Champion for GHC.
Talia Campione
Middle Georgia Regional Library
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Talia Campione is the Technology Specialist for the Middle Georgia Regional Library system, where she specializes in helping patrons understand and use artificial intelligence through classes and one-on-one support. Her mission is to embrace emerging technologies and help teach her patrons both basic and ethical usage of AI. She previously worked as a Sports Information Director at Morehead State University and Mercer University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Broadcasting and Mass Communication from the State University of New York at Oswego. She will graduate in May with her Master’s of Library and Information Science from Wayne State University.
Tara Carpenter
Lyrasis
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Tara Carpenter is the Implementation Manager for the Palace Project at Lyrasis, where she leads configuration, support, training, and nationwide adoption and engagement efforts for participating libraries. She has a background in public libraries and museums, most recently serving as Adult Education Program Manager at Desert Botanical Garden and Branch Manager at Maricopa County Library District. Tara received her MLIS from San José State University and her BA in Political Science from the University of Connecticut.
Tess Lyle
Richmont Graduate University
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Tess has worked at the Richmont Atlanta Library since November 2020 and was promoted to Research and Archives Librarian after earning her Master of Library and Information Science Degree and Graduate Certificate in Archival Studies from Louisiana State University in May 2022. She also earned a Master of Arts Degree in Literature from Georgia College & State University in 2016. Her duties include conducting research assistance services for students and faculty, completing interlibrary loans, maintaining Richmont’s university archives, teaching the fall section of Introduction to Graduate Writing Skills, and cataloging new materials for the Atlanta library. She lives in Marietta with her husband Chris, their dog Tilly, and their cats Marty, Stanley, and Benny. When she’s not working, she’s usually reading, cooking, napping, or listening to a true crime podcast.
Trinity Mosley
Georgia Technology Authority
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Trinity Mosley is an Executive Staff Advisor at Georgia Technology Authority, where she supports executive leadership in advancing strategic priorities that strengthen technology-driven public service delivery across the state. In her role, she serves as a trusted connector across agencies, vendors, and elected officials—bringing people together, aligning priorities, and helping move critical initiatives forward in service to Georgians.
With nearly two years of full-time experience in state government, Ms. Mosley has quickly distinguished herself as a trusted partner in high-impact, fast-paced environments. Her work spans executive coordination, stakeholder engagement, and strategic support, with a focus on ensuring that complex initiatives move forward with clarity and collaboration.
Prior to her current role, Ms. Mosley gained experience in both federal and state government through internships with the U.S. Department of State and Georgia Technology Authority. These experiences shaped her approach to public service and deepened her appreciation for the relationships and trust that make effective government possible.
A proud Double Dawg graduate of the University of Georgia, she holds both a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and a Master of Arts in Political Science and International Affairs. During her time at UGA, she was actively engaged in organizations and initiatives that reflected her commitment to volunteerism and global citizenship.
Ms. Mosley remains deeply engaged in her community and professional development. She is a member of the World Affairs Council and serves as a Young Professional Board Member for the American Red Cross – Metro Atlanta Chapter. She is also a graduate of the inaugural cohort of Georgia Technology Authority’s Emerging Leaders Program and was recognized as Rookie of the Year during her first year of service.
Known for her collaborative spirit and thoughtful approach, Ms. Mosley is committed to strengthening public service delivery and contributing to a more responsive, effective, and people-centered government.
Outside of her professional work, she enjoys reading, film, and exploring Georgia’s vibrant cultural landscape—whether that means discovering a new story, supporting local arts, or simply taking in all that makes her home state special—bringing the same curiosity and appreciation for connection into both her personal and professional life.
Whitney Gaines
Columbus State University
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Whit earned a BA in special education from Columbus State University, a Masters in Instructional Technology from NYIT, and a MLIS from Valdosta State University. With over 11 years of experience in libraries, Whit has worked across reference, genealogy, archives, systems, and eResources in both academic and public library settings. Whit prioritizes building a student-centered library collection and enhancing the student experience within CSU's discovery environments. Recognized as a 2023 Emerging Leader by the American Library Association, they bring a broad, collaborative perspective to their work. They also serve as a board member for Southwest Georgia Housing Opportunities. Outside of work, they enjoy taking care of their houseplants and playing video games.
Will Jones
Richmont Graduate University
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Will has worked in the Richmont Libraries since summer of 2021, and has served as technical services librarian since 2022. His duties include purchasing, collections development, inter-library loan, and the maintenance of the various online library platforms. He also teaches one section of the Graduate Writing course, and regularly meets with students to refine their written work. He lives in Chattanooga with his wife, Juliet, two children, and dog, and spends his free time hiking, reading, baking, and gardening.