Loriene Roy is Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, where she joined the faculty in 1987. She received a PhD from the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign and an MLS from the University of Arizona. She co-edited Library and Information Studies Education in the United States (London, Mansell, 1998) and Getting Libraries the Credit They Deserve: A Festschrift in Honor of Marvin H. Scilken (Lanham, MD, Scarecrow, 2003) and published over 100 articles, chapters, documents, and short stories. She currently serves on the advisory boards for the International Children’s Digital Library, Webjunction (the Gates Public Access Computing Portal), the Sequoyah Research Center, and the Knowledge River Center for the Study of Hispanic and American Indian Library and Information Resources. She is the Director and Founder of "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything," a national reading club for Native Children. She is the Principle Investigator for "Honoring Generations: Developing the Next Generation of Native Librarians" a scholarship program funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency that fosters innovation, leadership, and a lifetime of learning. Dr. Roy is Anishinabe (Ojibwe) and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation (Pembina Band).