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Bryn Geffert serves as the dean of libraries at the University of Vermont. He previously serves as library director at St. Olaf College, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and Amherst College.

Bryn majored in history and in Russian, graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College, with breaks for study in Scotland and the Soviet Union, plus stints as a lifeguard and Red Cross swimming instructor. He received an M.S. in library and information science from the University of Illinois, an M.A. in Russian history, and a Ph.D. in modern European history from the University of Minnesota.

His pieces on publishing and the open access movement appear in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and The Scholarly Kitchen. Books include Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans: Diplomacy, Theology, and the Politics of Interwar Ecumenism (Notre Dame University Press, 2010), Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Essential Texts (Yale University Press, 2016), and Catholics without Rome: Old Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and the Reunion Negotiations of the 1870s (Notre Dame University Press, 2022).

Bryn led the establishment of the Amherst College Press, and he partnered with members of the Oberlin Group and the University of Michigan to establish the Lever Press, ventures designed to demonstrate the viability of rigorously reviewed and edited monographs published under diamond open access models.

He has raced in three Birkebeiners, run twenty-two marathons (including six Boston Marathons), and completed a few triathlons. He served for many years as a high-school basketball and football official.

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Neil Romanosky has been Dean of University Libraries at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, since 2019. At Ohio, his leadership portfolio consists of libraries across all five campuses of the university and Ohio University Press. He represents Ohio University in the Association of Research Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, HathiTrust, and OhioLINK. Prior to his current role, he was Associate Chief Librarian for Science Research & Information and Director of Gerstein Science Information Center at the University of Toronto Libraries. While at Toronto, he oversaw the staff, operations, and collections of the university’s health sciences, science, and data library operations, while also working across the system as a member of the libraries’ executive leadership team. At Toronto he also served as Board Chair of the Health Sciences Information Consortium of Toronto, a network of academic, hospital, and other health libraries that became provincial in scope during his tenure as chair. He held previous appointments with New York University Health Sciences Library, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and Columbia University Libraries. Prior to his career in libraries, he worked as an editor in technical and reference publishing for a decade for publishers such as Wiley, Facts On File, and the IEEE.

Romanosky holds a PhD in organizational development and change from Fielding Graduate University, a master’s of science in information and library science from Pratt Institute, a master’s in communications and information studies from Rutgers University, and a bachelor of arts in English from Rider University. He was a recipient of the Medical Library Association’s Ida and George Eliot prize for publication of the year in 2014. He was an Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellow and a RUSA-sponsored American Library Association Emerging Leader.
 

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