Holding an MLS from Indiana University, Michael Stephens has spent the last fifteen years in public libraries working as a reference librarian, technology trainer and manager of Networked Resources and Training at the St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, IN. His most recent position in the public library setting was as Special Projects Librarian, focusing on technology, policy and plann...

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Holding an MLS from Indiana University, Michael Stephens has spent the last fifteen years in public libraries working as a reference librarian, technology trainer and manager of Networked Resources and Training at the St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, IN. His most recent position in the public library setting was as Special Projects Librarian, focusing on technology, policy and planning.

Beginning in the fall of 2006, Michael will be joining the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in River Forest, IL as an Instructor. He is finishing up his IMLS funded Interdisciplinary PhD at the University of North Texas.

Active in ALA, he has presented at library conferences locally, nationally and on the international
level as well as workshops for libraries and library associations. In 2001, he published The Library Internet Trainer's Toolkit --a series of technology training modules in CD-ROM with Neal-Schuman Inc in and in the U.K. with the British library Association in 2002. In 2005, he was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker and served as a Scholar at the Chicago Public Library's Scholar in Residence program. He has written for Library Journal, co-authors a department in Computers in Libraries magazine with Rachel Singer Gordon, and currently writes for the ALA TechSource Blog and his own blog, Tame the Web.

His Library Technology Report Best Practices for Social Software in Libraries will be published by ALA TechSource in 2006.