Keynote Speaker Bios

Loida Garcia-Febo, International Library Consultant

Loida Garcia-Febo is a Puerto Rican American librarian and International Library Consultant expert in library services to diverse populations and human rights. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 46 countries. In her job, she helps libraries, companies and organizations strategize programs, services and strategies in areas related to these topics and many others. Currently she also serves as the Health and Wellness Ambassador at the San Jose State University School of Information. Garcia-Febo has a bachelor’s in business education and a master's in library and information sciences.

Currently at IFLA: IFLA Governing Board Member, IFLA Management of Library Associations Section (MLAS) Chair. Currently at ALA:  ALA IRC United Nations Subcommittee Chair, Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship Chair. Past President of REFORMA. Born, raised, and educated in Puerto Rico. She has advocated for libraries at the United Nations, the European Union Parliament, U.S. Congress, NY State Senate, NY City Hall, and on sidewalks and streets in various states.

Dr. Marcia Bjornerud, Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Studies, Lawrence University 

Marcia Bjornerud is Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton.  Her research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building, and she combines field-based studies of bedrock geology with quantitative models of rock mechanics. She has done research in high arctic Norway and Canada as well as mainland Norway, Italy, New Zealand, and the Lake Superior region. 

A contributing writer to The New Yorker, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, she is also the author of several books for popular audiences:  Reading the Rocks, Timefulness, Geopedia, and the recently published Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks. 

Tomas Lipinski, Ph.D, JD, MLIS

Professor Lipinski is the former Dean of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. After leave in the 2020/2021 academic year, he returned to faculty status as Full Professor. He completed his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received the Master of Laws (LL.M.) from The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, and the Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Lipinski has worked in a variety of legal settings including the private, public and non-profit sectors. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters.   

In 2006 he was the first named Global Law Fellow, Faculty of Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven), Belgium where continues to lecture annually at its Centre for IT & IP Law and has been a visiting professor in summers at the University of Pretoria-School of Information Technology (Pretoria, South Africa) and at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is active in copyright education and policy-making, chairing the ACRL Copyright Discussion Group from 2013 to 2016, Chair of the ALA OITP Committee on Legislation Copyright Subcommittee, former chair and current member of the American Library Association, Office of Information Technology Policy, Copyright Education Subcommittee, former member and now Expert Advisor to the Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee of IFLA and serves as head of an NGO delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Other Rights.  He is the immediate past Chair of the Committee on Legislation Subcommittee on Copyright of the Copyright Legislation, Education and Advocacy Network (CLEAN) of the American Library Association.