Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen is the Portland Operations librarian at the Oregon Institute of Technology. She graduated with her MLIS from Louisiana State University in 2003, though she has been in libraries in various forms since her first job as a student assistant in the library at Linfield College in 1996. Dawn has written other various works including co-authoring A Leadership Primer for New Librarians: Tools for Helping Today's Early Career Librarians Become Tomorrow's Library Leaders (2009). Linda Crook is Science Librarian and Assistant Professor at Washington State University, where she is the liaison to the College of Pharmacy. She received her MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool in 2000. She has been working in libraries since 1991, including time as student assistant, paraprofessional, and librarian; in a public library, a special library, and academic libraries; as lead, supervisor, division head, and branch library head. Linda is active in the American Library Association where she participated in the 2008 Emerging Leaders program. Her other works include a contribution to A Leadership Primer for New Librarians: Tools for Helping Today's Early Career Librarians Become Tomorrow's Library Leaders (2009).