She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Geography from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Later, she completed a Master of Science with a specialization in Demography at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico and another Master of Science in Information Science at the Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies of the Río Piedras Campus, University of Puerto Rico.

Throughout her professional career, she’s had the opportunity to work in various units of the University of Puerto Rico Library System. Her experience includes specialized libraries in Business Administration, Planning, and Education, as well as multidisciplinary units. She has also worked in the Technical Services Department, in the Acquisitions Section. Additionally, she worked in the Program for Integrating Information Literacy Competencies into the Curriculum of the Library System.

Currently, she is the librarian in charge of the Business Administration Library at UPR, Río Piedras, where she also coordinates the information literacy project and collection development.

She’s presented papers at national and international professional association events. Among the topics she has worked on are: specialized health libraries, sustainable development and the contribution of librarians, virtual learning objects in the library context, open access policies, among others.

Ms. Kumaree Ramtahal is a Librarian at the Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.  She holds a Master in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from Western University (formerly University of Western Ontario), Canada and an MSc in Management Studies (HR) from The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.  Ms. Ramtahal was the President of the Association of Caribbean Universities, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) from 2017-2018.   She has served on the ACURIL’s executive from 2014 to present in various capacities: as Personal member, Vice President, President, Immediate Past President and currently as Guest.

Jaquelina E. Alvarez leads various digital strategies initiatives, such as establishing innovative research support services and developing collections in the institutional repository, Scholar@UPRM, and Omeka S. She has worked on numerous projects funded by federal and private sources, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. She is currently co-director of the Oral History Laboratory (OHL) and coordinator of the Graduate Research and Innovation Center (GRIC) at the UPR Mayagüez General Library. She earned a master's degree (1997) and a specialization (1999) certificate in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Rosángela Rodríguez Pedró is a cataloging librarian at the School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico, with research interests in public governance and the impact of emerging technologies on education. She holds a Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Learning Technologies and completed a postdoctoral program on New Challenges in Public Governance at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her professional experience includes work in school libraries and academic research, complemented by achievements in securing research funding and publishing children's literature.

Sylvain Houdebert headed the documentation service of the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane from 2009 to 2014. Since 2015, he has been the director of the network of seven libraries at the University of the Antilles, in Martinique and Guadeloupe.

Purísima Centeno Alayón is an Academic Librarian and Instructional Designer with over 20 years of experience in higher education. She holds a Doctorate in Education with a subspecialization in Learning Technologies, a specialization in Scientific and Technological Information Management, and a Master's degree in Information Sciences and Technologies. Throughout her career, she has developed open educational resources and trained faculty in online course design. She has extensive experience in coordinating institutional projects, supervising teams, and providing faculty development. She is the editor of Acceso. Revista Puertorriqueña de Bibliotecología y Documentación, published by the Librarians Society of Puerto Rico, a manager of electronic publishing systems (OJS), and has served as a peer reviewer for academic publications. She currently leads a funded research project on open access journals in Puerto Rico. A frequent presenter at conferences and author of multiple peer-reviewed publications, her work has been recognized with awards at the Caribbean regional level.

Professor Aída Calle Maldonado has served since January 2022 as the librarian in charge of the Monserrate Santana de Palés Library, part of the Library System of the Río Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico. This library provides specialized services for the Faculty of Social Sciences, particularly for undergraduate and graduate students in Social Work and graduate students in Rehabilitation Counseling.

She has nearly twenty years of experience in various units of the Library System. Since 2014, she has served as a teaching librarian in the Reference and Periodicals Collection and in the Information Literacy Integration Program, which she also coordinated from January 2019 to August 2021.

She holds a Master’s degree in Information Science and Technologies (2011) and a Master’s degree in Social Work (2006), both awarded by the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Her areas of specialization include reference services and the development of information literacy skills among students in Social Work, Rehabilitation Counseling, Psychology, Labor Relations, Cooperativism, and the Social Sciences in general.