John Carlo Bertot
Co-Director
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John Carlo Bertot is Co-Director of iPAC and Professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Dr. Bertot received his Ph.D. from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. His research spans information and telecommunications policy, e-government, government agency technology planning and evaluation, and library planning and evaluation. Dr. Bertot is President-elect of the Digital Government Society of North America (DGSNA), serves as chair of the International Standards Organization’s (ISO) Library Performance Indicator working group, and serves as a member of the National Information Standards Organization’s (NISO) Business Information Topic committee. Dr. Bertot is past Chair of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Library Research Round Table, and currently serves on the ALA Committee on Research and Statistics and E-government Services Subcommittee. In addition, Dr. Bertot is Editor of both Government Information Quarterly and The Library Quarterly. Over the years, Dr. Bertot has received funding for his research from the National Science Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Government Accountability Office, the American Library Association, and the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Email: jbertot[at]umd.edu
Paul T. Jaeger
Co-Director
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Paul T. Jaeger, Ph.D., J.D., is Associate Professor and Diversity Officer of the College of Information Studies and Co-Director of the Information Policy and Access Center at the University of Maryland. Dr. Jaeger’s research focuses on the ways in which law and public policy shape information behavior, particularly for underserved populations. He is the author of more than one hundred and twenty-five journal articles and book chapters, along with seven books. His most recent books are Information Worlds: Social Context, Technology, & Information Behavior in the Age of the Internet (Routledge, 2010) with Gary Burnett; and Public Libraries and the Internet: Roles, Perspectives, and Implications (Libraries Unlimited, 2011) with John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure; and Disability and the Internet: Confronting a Digital Divide (Lynne Rienner, 2012). His research has been funded by the Institute of Museum & Library Services, the National Science Foundation, the American Library Association, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. Dr. Jaeger is Co-Editor of Library Quarterly, Co-Editor of the Information Policy Book Series from MIT Press, and Associate Editor of Government Information Quarterly.

Mega M. Subramaniam
Associate Director
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Dr. Mega Subramaniam is the Associate Director of iPAC and an Assistant Professor with the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies. Her research interest encompasses issues of diversity, inclusion and representation in information and STEM education. In particular, her research focuses on how information institutions (such as school libraries, public libraries and museums) are providing access to the acquisition of information literacy and STEM skills for the underrepresented, underserved, and disadvantaged populations. She is the Coordinator for the School Library Media specialization offered through the MLS program at the iSchool. She also teaches courses offered through the School Library Media Specialization and the Information and Diverse Populations Concentration. More information about her research and teaching interests can be found at: http://www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~mmsubram/

Dr. June Ahn
Affiliate Faculty
Dr. June Ahn (http://ahnjune.com/) is an Assistant Professor in the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies and College of Education. His research examines the design, implementation, and evaluation of new media for teaching and learning, with a focus on science, math, and computational thinking education. His current projects include understanding how open, peer-led learning occurs in the massively open online course platform (MOOC), Peer 2 Peer University. He is also the PI on the NSF funded Sci-dentity project (http://scidentity.umd.edu/) that engages inner-city middle school youth with science fiction storytelling and social media to enhance their identification with STEM ideas. His research focuses on two current aspects of technology, youth, and education: (a) how we can leverage the participatory capabilities of social media and social computing tools for the goal of learning and (b) how the presence of ubiquitous information available via networks and digital media alters how teaching and learning happen in both formal and informal environments.
 
Bruce Ambacher
Affiliate Faculty
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Bruce Ambacher is a Visiting Professor and Coordinator of the Archives, Records and Information Management Specialization in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. He received his PhD from Temple University. His principal research interest is in ensuring the long term preservation of digital objects for future access and understanding. Toward that end he has helped develop digital access and preservation standards as diverse as the Government Information Locator System; the Geospatial One-Stop; the Open Archive Information System (ISO 14721); several digital data standards for transferring data from federal agencies to the National Archives; and Trusted Repositories: Audit and Certification, which he co-chaired. He currently is working to develop standards for auditors for Requirements for Audit and Certification for a Trustworthy Digital Repository (draft ISO 16363). He is a Distinguished Fellow and past Council Member of the Society of American Archivists, and past president of the National Archives Assembly and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.