Libraries and Librarians in the Pandemic with Melanie Meyers, Jaime Taylor, Emily Drabinsky and John Pollack.
Emily Drabinski is interim chief librarian at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She took on this role effective March 15th. The library building closed on March 13th. Prior to joining the Graduate Center, Drabinski spent ten years at Long Island University, Brooklyn as a teaching librarian and union activist. She edits Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books.
Melanie Meyers is the Director of Collections and Engagement at The American Jewish Historical Society. Prior to joining AJHS in 2018, she was the Senior Manager for Reference and Outreach at The Center for Jewish History, New York City. She is an instructor at The Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, where she teaches a variety of classes for the special collections/rare books specialization, including “Special Collections Librarianship” and “History of the Book”. 
John H. Pollack is Curator, Research Services, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. He has worked in this department since 1995. His responsibilities include providing assistance to students and scholars, and teaching and organizing class sessions centered on the collections. John holds a PhD in English from Penn. He specializes in Early American literature and history, and early modern book history. His research has focused on topics including Native American languages and Benjamin Franklin and colonial education.
Jaime Taylor is the Discovery and Resource Management Systems Coordinator at UMass Amherst. During the pandemic she has been both keeping library catalog and search systems live for remote teaching, learning, and research; and working on the Five College Consortium’s implementation of FOLIO, an open source library services platform. She is currently working on a book chapter about project management in consortia; her professional interests include organized labor, anti-racism work, library instruction from a systems and technical services perspective, and flattening managerial hierarchies more than is currently fashionable.