Jon E. Cawthorne, Dean of the University Libraries and School of Library and Information Science, Wayne State University
J. Stephen Downie, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kevin Hamilton, Professor, School of Art + Design and Senior Associate Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dianne Harris, Dean, College of Humanities, University of Utah
Faye V. Harrison, Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John W. Randolph, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abby Smith Rumsey, Independent Scholar