Meredith G. Farkas is the Head of Instructional Initiatives at Norwich University in Northfield, VT. She is also an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science. Meredith is the author of the book Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Community Online (Information Today, 2007) and writes the monthly column "Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. She is the author of the blog Information Wants to Be Free and is the creator of Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki as well as a number of national conference wikis. In March 2006, she was named a Mover and Shaker by Library Journal for her innovative use of technology to benefit the profession.