Heather Gilbert
Heather Gilbert owns and operates her own small press and design business, Tinderbox Press. While struggling with a client one day, she decided that full-time graphic design was not for her. Thus, after much self analysis of her love of being helpful, her need to find what cannot be found and her desire for efficient organization, coupled with her background in various print and web technologies, a library student was born.

Gilbert has volunteered for the Mt. Pleasant branch of the Charleston County Public Library and is currently working with LISSA to redesign their website. She currently resides in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. and attends USC’s MLIS program exclusively through distance education. She is expected to graduate in May 2011, at which time she hopes to use her myriad degrees (MLIS, MFA and BA in Literature) to finally acquire gainful and meaningful employment in either digital libraries or information architecture.

Sara Mason
Sara Mason is a second-year distance education graduate student in the West Virginia/Virginia Cohort. Her course of study focuses on archives. She is also the secretary for the University of South Carolina Library and Information Science Student Association, and the Virginia Cohort Chair for LISSA. Mason is the library assistant at the Jean Outland Chrysler Library at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va., as well as a SLIS graduate assistant at a distance. She recently completed a seven-month internship and volunteer position at the Hermitage Foundation Museum and Gardens in Norfolk.

Tyler Mobley
Tyler Mobley is a recent graduate of the University of South Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications and a current student at the School of Library and Information Science. He will graduate in December and hopes to enter the library systems field. Mobley currently works at the Digital Collections office of the Thomas Cooper Library, where he assists in the digitization and online presentation of special collections from around the state.