Rebecca A. Bernthal


Rebecca Bemthal is an Associate Professor and the head librarian at the C.Y. Thompson Agricultural
Library at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since July 1992. As a liaison librarian, she serves the
Departments of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Meteorology, and Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife.
Ms. Bemthal oversees a staff of nine full-time staff and thirty student employees. She is a co-investigator
for a National Agricultural Library grant-funded project investigating the availability of agricultural
information from the National Agricultural Library. The C.Y. Thompson Library is actively involved in
the AGNIC Project.

Bernthal is Past Chair of the Nebraska Library Association's College and University Section. She has
served as a faculty senator and on the Executive Committee of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's
Academic Senate. Bernthal chaired the Public Services Analysis Project Steering Committee that led
UNL Libraries to a major reorganization of Public Services.

Prior to joining the faculty of UNL in January 1989, Ms. Bernthal held several positions with
responsibilities for collection development, reference, and collection maintenance in libraries in Nebraska
and Iowa. She is a member of the American Library Association and several of its divisions, the
Nebraska Library Association, USAIN, the Agricultural Economics Reference Organization (AERO) and
the International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalist (IAALD).


Michael ,J. Dabrishus

Michael J. Dabrishus received his M.S.L.S. at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, in 1974, where
he pursued coursework and training in the administration of archives and manuscript collections.

From 1976 to 1983 he worked at the Texas State Archives where he was responsible for reference
services and processing projects. Since 1984 he has been head of the Special Collections Division at the
University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, where he holds the rank of librarian/professor.

He has served as project director for four successful proposals submitted to the Arkansas Endowment for
the Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each of these projects had a preservation
component.

He is the author of fifteen articles and coauthor of William Grant Still: A Bio-Bibliography, published in
1996 by Greenwood Press.

He has been active in the Society of American Archivists, the Society of Southwest Archivists (where he
served as president 1988-1989), and the Arkansas Historical Association. He has presented papers at
professional meetings and served on committees for each of these organizations.


Lynn Davis

Lynn Davis is Head of the Preservation Department at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library. She
holds an MLS from University of Hawai'i and a MA in Studio Art from University of New Mexico in
Albuquerque. Lynn came to the University from Bishop Museum where she was Chairman of the
Archives and Visual Collections for 20 years.

At Bishop Museum Lynn established the preservation standards for a wide variety of formats managed by
the Archives and Visual Collections department. She was successful in getting both private and public