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.

Jeanmary, who identifies as Afro-Puerto Rican, is from the municipality of Carolina. She completed her studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (UPR-RP), where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and a Master’s degree in Information Science and Technologies. Her capstone project focused on Digital Humanities under the mentorship of Dr. Luisa Vigo-Cepeda.

She currently serves as the Librarian in charge of Special Collections at the Library and Puerto Rican Newspaper Archive of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She previously worked as Institutional Repository Coordinator for the University Libraries System (2020–2022) at the same campus. She is a member of the Editorial Committee of Acceso. Revista Puertorriqueña de Bibliotecología y Documentación (2020–present) and served as Secretary of the Puerto Rico Library Association (2020–2021).

In the summer of 2023, she was a participant in the Summer Institute of the Digital Caribbean Studies Collective, Building Digital Archives, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Her areas of interest within the field of Information Science include the promotion of collections, services, and programs; special collections; information literacy; and reference services. Her research and publication interests include special collections, Puerto Rican children’s literature, and digital humanities. She has collaborated in the creation of digital exhibitions and digital archives of Puerto Rican resources.

Jeanmary is Co-Principal Investigator of the project GLAM DCM PR: Digital Collection Management in Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Puerto Rico, initially funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and currently carried out with the generous collaboration of the Archivo Histórico de Vieques, Humanidades Puerto Rico, the Oral History Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Jeanmary is a library enthusiast who enjoys reading, going to the beach, and traveling.

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.