Mary K. Bolin is a full-time Lecturer in the SJSU School of Information and an Emeritus Professor in the University Libraries at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, where she served as Chair of the Technical Services Department and as a Catalog and Metadata Librarian. She is an Emeritus Fellow of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. She completed her PhD in Education in 2007. Dr. Bolin is one of the founding editors of the peer-reviewed electronic journal Library Philosophy and Practice. Before returning to her home state of Nebraska in 2004, she spent 17 years as a faculty member in the library at the University of Idaho.