Ellyssa Kroski is an Information Services Technologist at Barnard College Library as well as a writer,educator,and international conference speaker. She is an adjunct faculty member at Long Island University, Pratt Institute, and San Jose State University where she teaches LIS students about emerging technologies. Her book Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals was published in February 2008, she blogs at iLibrarian and writes a column called Stacking the Tech for Library Journal's Academic Newswire.