Presenters
Matthew Cook, Digital Scholarship Program Manager at Harvard Library, explores/develops/deploys tech for research and instruction. Matt was instrumental in helping explore virtual reality applications at the University of Oklahoma Libraries and now with Harvard Library he continues to pursue VR applications.
Dr. Valerie Hill, with 25 years experience in education serving as a school librarian and professor of library and information science, continues teaching and researching information literacy in global digital participatory culture. Her interests include all information literacy formats (media literacy, digital literacy, transliteracy, metaliteracy), human-computer interaction, philosophy, literature and storyteling.
Dr. Zack Lischer-Katz, has held the position of Assistant Professor in Digital Curation and Preservation at University of Arizona's iSchool since Fall 2020. He studies how to use virtual reality technologies for scholarship and teaching, and in particular, how to curate and archive virtual reality technology and 3D research data.
Ken Varnum, Senior Program Manager and Discovery Strategist at the University of Michigan Library. Working within Library Information Technology's Design and Discovery unit, he is responsible for technology and project management for the library's discovery interfaces. He has edited several books published by ALA Editions, including Beyond Reality: Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality in the Library.