Keynote speakers
Merrilee Proffitt is a Senior Program Officer in OCLC Research. She provides project management skills and expert support to institutions represented within the OCLC Research Library Partnership. Merrilee is an active member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), and the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (RBMS-ACRL). She is frequently an invited speaker at international professional conferences and workshops on topics relating to the future of research libraries.
Her current projects and interests include: increasing access to special collections, the impact of copyright on primary source material, digital library initiatives, and looking at developing better relationships between Wikipedia and cultural heritage institutions.
Merrilee championed the creation of OCLC's Wikipedian in Residence position (2012-2014), and is one of the principals in the Knight Foundation funded project, Amplify libraries and communities through Wikipedia.