Don Turnbull
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~donturn/
Dr. Don Turnbull is a co-Principal Investigator of the OpenChoice
Project. He is an assistant professor in the School of Information at
the University of Texas at Austin. Don's teaching and research
focuses on designing Web information architectures, information
systems analysis, Information Retrieval, the Semantic Web and
Knowledge Management Systems.
Miles Efron
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~miles/
Dr. Miles Efron also a co-Principal Investigator of the OpenChoice
Project. He is an assistant professor in the School of
Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Especially relevant to this project is Dr. Efron's experience as Linux Archive Maintainer at the University of North Carolina's contributor-run digital library ibiblio.org. Dr. Efron's research is in the area of machine learning, and he has strong technical expertise in automatic classification and network application programming.
Loriene Roy
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~loriene/
Dr. Loriene Roy has several years of public library professional experience and has taught the iSchool's graduate "Public Libraries" class since 1987. Dr. Roy's dissertation centered on collection development in rural public libraries and she has published a number of articles on pubic library collection development, public access computing, and marketing. She is currently a Councilor-at-Large for the American Library Association and she serves on the advisory boards of six research projects, including WebJunction.org and the International Children's Digital Library.
Arro Smith
Mr. Smith is a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin. He has over 14 years of professional experience at a mid-sized public library and his experience spans an array of technical services positions including serving as network manager and technical services manager. He is familiar with how issues relating to Internet filtering impact public services and public library staffing.
