Mary M. Brooks, PhD, FIIC, ACR, is a private conservator and consultant on the conservation of textiles. She has worked in museums in the United States, Europe and England. Her exhibition, Stop the Rot, at York Castle Museum aimed to raise public awareness of heritage conservation. Besides her consulting and conservation work she teaches conservation and museology in universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. Mary has a particular interest in the contribution that object-based research...

Peter Leonard, Head of Humanities Research Computing, University of Chicago, and incoming Librarian for Digital Humanities Research at Yale speaks at the New Directions for Digital Scholarship conference on Friday, March 1, 2013.

David Germano, Professor of Religious Studies, Director of SHANTI, University of Virginia, speaks at the New Directions for Digital Scholarship conference on Friday, March 1, 2013.

Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, University of Victoria, speaks at the New Directions for Digital Scholarship conference on Friday, March 1, 2013.

Abby Smith Rumsey, historian and Consulting analyst on the use of the cultural record in a variety of media, gives her views on digital preservation and the role of research libraries in the preservation of electronic media.

Helen Shenton, former head of Collection Care at the British Library, presents a personal perspective on preservation from her current position as executive director at the Harvard University Library.