Our Team

The Library Collective is designed and powered by real-life library workers and library supporters who donate their time in service to our profession.

Founding Team

The Library Collective exists because a small group of University of Tennessee at Knoxville library workers believed in our Founder’s vision to provide useful, fun, and affordable professional development.

While the following folks have moved on to new projects, we are grateful for their collective efforts to help turn an idea into reality:

Kris Bronstad Rachel Caldwell

Chris Durman Ashley Maynor

Steven Milewski Chris Reynolds

Advisory Councils

The Library Collective is passionate about providing inclusive and supportive spaces for fantastically fun, affordable, fun, and useful learning opportunities for library workers.

Were privileged to be supported in our efforts by a talented and engaged group of thinkers, doers, and makers who use their expertise to help bring focus to our passion and challenge us to do better.

Our Advisory Councils are made up of individuals representing libraries, content providers, business, finance, and international development. You can learn more about each council’s focus and the inspiring groups of people who serve on them here.

Volunteer Team

A number of amazing and generous librarians make it all happen and deserve all the kudos. They are listed by year in our Event Reports and Program Archive.

Our volunteer team represents a diverse, intersectional array of job titles, organization types, geographic locations, socio-economic and educational backgrounds, gender identities and expressions, race, ethnicity, and ability.

If you’d like to add your unique voice and perspective to our work, please consider applying for any open positions.