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Roy Tennant started TechEssence to address the need for simple, easy to understand information about information technology. He is lucky to be joined by a stellar cast of individuals who contribute their unique perspectives on technology and its appropriate place in library service:

• Dorothea Salo of George Mason University is a Renaissance peasant who not only knows a few of the deepest, darkest secrets of the DSpace repository software, but also sings classical music and writes with stunning disregard for decorum on her weblog Caveat Lector.
• Eric Lease Morgan, of the University Libraries of Notre Dame and his consulting company Infomotions, is widely known as someone who can explain technical topics simply and understandably. We're honored to have hime here with us, where we strive to do exactly that.
• Jenn Riley of the Indiana University Digital Library Program is one of a new breed of librarians (her title is Metadata Librarian if that clues you in) who is helping to create and shape digital libraries. Besides writing thoughtul and thought-provoking posts on her home blog, Inquiring Librarian, Jenn appears in journals and conferences, always pushing at the boundaries of what libraries used to be.
• Lori Bowen Ayre is the founder and principal consultant of The Galecia Group, a company focused on library technology as well as library systems (in the broadest sense of the term). Lori has worked with many libraries, consortia, regional systems and with library service organizations such as Infopeople. Her substantial technical knowledge and experience is tempered with an eye toward practicality, which is certainly the perspective we try to foster here at TechEssence.
• Marshall Breeding of Vanderbilt University is a well-known expert on library automation systems. Among his many pursuits and accomplishments are a column in Computers in Libraries, a contributing editorship of the Smart Libraries Newsletter, and lib-web-cats, a directory of libraries worldwide.
• Meredith Farkas, Distance Learning Librarian at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, has not been a librarian long, but she's already made significant contributions to the profession. Whether it's writing interesting and insightful postings on her home blog Information Wants To Be Free, or working on her new book, or on her Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki, she is never far from what is changing the profession. Rock on!
• Thomas Dowling of Ohiolink first acquired Internet fame by creating Libweb, a directory of library web servers. But subscribers to Web4Lib know him as the sage who tirelessly and effectively promotes the proper use of Web standards. You can also spot him at ALA, where he sits on LITA's Top Technology Trends panel and provides his valuable perspective on where things are going in libraries.