>> 2002 Town Meetings >> St. Louis ST. LOUIS: Speaker Biographies Kathe Albrecht Kathe Hicks Albrecht is the visual resources curator at the American University in Washington, D.C. Ms. Albrecht has been actively involved for many years in issues surrounding the use of digital image information and its impact on the educational community. As chair of the Visual Resources Association Intellectual Property Rights Committee, she was instrumental in the development of the VRA Image Collection Guidelines. She represented VRA at the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU) and is active in the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). Ms. Albrecht has also been involved in managing several digital imaging initiatives and recently served as one of three project coordinators for the American University implementation of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL). Ms. Albrecht has spoken and published broadly on various aspects of the educational use of digital information, including distance education and the analog-to-digital transition. Albrecht holds degrees in art history from the University of California Los Angeles and the American University. Mary Case Mary M. Case is Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Since joining ARL in June 1996, she has been responsible for guiding the activities of the association as it seeks to understand and influence the forces affecting the production, dissemination, and use of scholarly information. Ms. Case has coordinated programs and workshops on the licensing of electronic resources, helped in the development of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), and coordinated several national conferences and roundtables on issues in scholarly communication. Before coming to ARL, Ms. Case was Director of Program Review in the Office of the Vice President for Administration and Planning at Northwestern University. Prior to that, she spent 10 years at Northwestern University Library, where she worked in serials and acquisitions. Robert Clarida Bob is a partner at the New York firm of Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman. His copyright practice includes both counseling and litigation for clients in a wide variety of industries, such as publishing, music, fine arts, photography, jewelry design, film, software and new media. On behalf of clients such as Harvard University and the New York Public Library he has been actively involved with digital copyright issues in the library context, and has advised the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with respect to the digitization of artworks for the ArtSTOR project. Bob has spoken and written frequently on copyright issues, and is co-author, with David Goldberg, of the annual review of copyright decisions published each year by the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA. Before joining Cowan, Liebowitz, Mr. Clarida taught music history and music theory at Dartmouth College, and wrote music for several dance companies in New York. He earned his J.D. in 1993 from Columbia University, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, after earning a Ph.D. in music composition from SUNY Stony Brook in 1987, and a Fulbright fellowship to the Musicology Institute of G–teborg University, Sweden. He has also earned his Master of Music degree in composition from the University of Redlands, and a bachelor of music degree in composition from the University of Illinois. He is admitted to the New York bar, and to the federal bars of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Jeffrey Cohen Jeffrey A. Cohen is an architectural historian specializing in nineteenth-century subjects. He has written on architects Benjamin Latrobe and Frank Furness, architectural drawings, and architectural education. Dr.Cohen teaches in the Growth & Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr College, where he is also director of the Digital Media and Visual Resource Center and part of the College's four-person Instructional Technology Team. He has lately been involved in a number of digital projects, including some pedagogical image-sharing initiatives, research-resource websites, and web exhibitions - see the Image Exchange Project of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH). He is also project director of "Places in Time: Documentation of Place in the Greater Philadelphia Area" a pilot project funded by the William Penn Foundation to create an on-line, cross-institutional historical iconography combining sets of digital images, texts, tools, and finding aids.He is the chair of the SAH Electronic Media Committee. Tony Gill Tony Gill has been a Program Officer at the Research Libraries Group since June 1999, with a remit to facilitate collaborative activities in the visual arts, museums and natural history arenas. He is the liaison for the RLG Art & Architecture Group and the SCIPIO Taskforce, is active in the CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group and is extensively involved in RLG's Cultural Materials Initiative. He came to RLG from the United Kingdom, where he held posts at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design (managing the development of the Art, Design, Architecture & Media (ADAM) Information Gateway and the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS), and Technical Outreach Manager at the Museum Documentation Association (providing impartial advice on the best use of information technology for museums and galleries in the UK). He has also consulted for the Getty Trust, the University of Bristol/JISC Image Digitisation Initiative, and the Science Museum. Tony has degrees in Communication in Computing (Middlesex University) and Physics & Philosophy (King's College, London), and is the author of a number of publications on the applications of information technology in the arts & humanities, including The MDA Guide to Computers in Museums, Metadata and the World Wide Web and 3-D Culture on the Web Roger Lawson Roger Lawson is administrative librarian at the National Gallery of Art. A member of ARLIS/NA since 1979, he served as President in 1997 and is currently a member of the Public Policy Committee and the society's liaison to NINCH. He has also participated in a number of RLG initiatives, including chair of the Art and Architecture Group in 1994. Roger earned his BA in art history and international relations) from the University of Virginia and a master's degree in library science from Catholic University. Michael Shapiro Michael S. Shapiro, is an attorney and author specializing in domestic and international copyright matters. Formerly General Counsel of the National Endowment for the Humanities, he currently serves as Attorney-Advisor, Office of International and Legislative Affairs, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Dr. Shapiro has written extensively and lectured widely on a broad range of legal and cultural topics. He is the co-author of A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark (American Association of Museums, 1999) and the author of "Child's Garden: The Kindergarten Movement from Froebel to Dewey," (1983). He is currently working on a book tentatively titled: "The Cultural Bargain: the Arts, Copyright and the Public Interest." Dr. Shapiro earned the Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and the JD from the George Washington University Law School.