The two keynote speakers on March 5 for Collection Development will be:

Ed Shephard, Head of Collection Development and Management, Binghamton University Libraries. Shephard has also been the History Bibliographer/Reference Librarian at Glenn G. Bartle Library. He holds an MLS and a master degree in French History.

Ellen J. Reynolds, General Services Librarian, Pioneer Library System. The Pioneer Library System is a cooperative library system serving public libraries in Livingston, Ontario, Wayne and Wyoming counties of New York State. From her ABLE bio:

Ellen currently serves as the Collection Management Librarian for Pioneer Library System and provides consultant services in the areas of collection management and development, adult services, youth services, and catalog and holdings training for the system’s Integrated Library System. Prior to joining the PLS staff in 1998 she was Central Library Coordinator for the Geneva Free Library, the central library for PLS, where she was responsible for overseeing the library’s ILS, acquisitions, cataloging, adult collection development, and the system-wide interlibrary loan service. Ellen was director of the Ontario Public Library in Ontario, New York for 14 years prior to joining the Geneva staff.