Terry Belanger was educated at Haverford College and at Columbia University, where he received his PhD in 18th-century English literature in 1970. His doctoral work was on the 18th-century London book trade, and he has published extensively on this subject. In 1971, he established the Book Arts Press at Columbia University as a bibliographical laboratory supporting a program for the training of rare book and special collections librarians and antiquarian booksellers. In 1983, he instituted Rare Book School, a collection of courses of interest to students of the history of the book and related subjects. Belanger moved both the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School to the University of Virginia in 1992, where he accepted an appointment as University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections. He was Rosenbach Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania (1986); and he has given, among many others, the Graham Pollard Lecture of the Bibliographical Society of London (1988), the Malkin Lecture at Columbia (1991), and the Mayo Lecture at Texas A & M University (2003). He has presented about a hundred other formal presentations on bibliographical and bibliophilic subjects over the past three decades, and in 2005 was honored with a MacArthur Fellowship.

Mary Francis Ciletti, a native of Colorado Springs, received her BA degree in English Literature from the University of Washington. After spending 3 1/2 years in Australia, Mary started in the book trade working at a Colorado Springs bookstore in 1980. In 1982 she established Hooked on Books on Academy Boulevard and Maizeland Road, dealing in new and used books. She is a lifetime member of the Friends of the Pikes Peak Library District where she has the opportunity to support literacy and writing programs in the community.
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Tom Congalton, proprieter of Between the Covers Rare Books, has been a full-time bookseller since 1986. He is a leading specialist in the fields of literary first editions, African-American literature, and sports, particularly early baseball. He is a former President of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, and has served as chairman of many of the ABAA's committees, including the Membership and Book Fair Committees. He currently serves of the Committee of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), and is the editor of the ILAB Newsletter. He is the former longtime Chairman of the New York Book Fair Committee, and one of the founding members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' of New Jersey. He writes a regular column, "Letter from America", for the English magazine Rare Book Review.
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Daniel De Simone was appointed Curator, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of The Library of Congress in January 2000. He came to The Library of Congress after 25 years in the book trade, principally as the owner of his own rare book company. Over the past twenty-five years he has developed expertise in the fields of antiquarian bibliography, illustrated books, 18 th century French and Italian books, and 18 th century Irish books. He has written 51 catalogues of books for sale under his own banner, as well as writing catalogues for other booksellers. He has significant experience building collections of rare books for both private collectors and rare book libraries. In 1995 De Simone helped establish a collection evaluation program at Waseda University, Tokyo Japan and has strong ties with both the Japanese book trade and Japanese librarians. He arrived at The Library of Congress well equipped to make the Rosenwald Collection a more useful and visible part of the rare book world and to help build the programs necessary to insure its future growth and development.
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Michael Ginsberg started in the antiquarian book trade in 1956, working for J.S. Canner & Co., and later entered into a partnership known as Western Hemisphere, Inc. In 1975 he started Michael Ginsberg Books, specializing in the fields of Americana, American Church History, Government Documents, Western Americana, Serials, and Scholarly Periodicals. He currently acts as a consultant to many major book firms and private collectors, as well as an appraiser of books and manuscripts for many large institutions. He is a past President of the ABAA, has served twice on its Board of Governors, and is a past President of the New England Chapter of ABAA.
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Edwin V. Glaser, proprietor of Edwin V. Glaser Rare Books of Napa, California, is an internationally known specialist in rare and important books in science, technology and medicine. He is past President of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, and previously has been chairman of both the Middle Atlantic and Northern California chapters of the ABAA, as well as serving on the Board of Governors. He was an occasional contributor to AB Bookman's Weekly , has lectured before various groups on antiquarian books, and has been a member of the faculty of the Antiquarian Book Seminar since 1979.
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Dan Gregory has been a full-time professional bookseller since 1990. He was a manager for Borders Book Shops in Pennsylvania and New Jersey until 1996, when he joined the staff of Between the Covers Rare Books. He specializes in developing computer systems for booksellers, rare book imaging, and catalog design. He has acted as a consultant to numerous bookselling firms, as well as BarnesandNoble.com, and served on the advisory board for the Advanced Book Exchange. An Associate member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, he has served on the ABAA's Internet, Publications, and Security committees, and has written several articles for the ABAA Newsletter. An expert on using computer graphics for the merchandising of rare books, he was profiled in the July/August 2003 issue OP Magazine, and his rare book images have been featured in numerous books and periodicals and are seen daily by patrons of chain bookstores throughout the United States.
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Lois Harvey came to Colorado after attending the University of New Mexico and soon became a full time bookseller. She established her own shop in 1980 and then a second shop in 1997, West Side Books. She is a founding member and past President of the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association and has been active in local and national bookselling organizations. She served as coordinator of the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Book Fair for many years and currently serves on that board and others concerned with local literacy projects. Her open shop and internet business feature books both new and used, with specialty books in various fields.

Kevin Royal Johnson has been selling books professionally for ten years under the store name Royal Books. He began his career selling privately from his home in Baltimore, then moved to a warehouse location down the street from his home, where he operated for the next three years. In January of 2001, he purchased one of the three-story buildings that had operated for 25 years as the Kelmscott Bookshop, and Royal Books became open to the public. Kevin joined the ABAA in 2002, and maintains a steady schedule of exhibitions at both ABAA and non-ABAA book fairs, and enjoys the day-to-day (including weekends) routine of having an open bookshop. Royal Books is staffed by Kevin and five employees, has a stock of approximately 20,000 books, and offers general stock (except cookbooks) as well as rare items. Kevin specializes in Modern Literature, Film, Music, Art and Photography, with a sub-specialty in the growing area of Books Into Film. 17 color catalogs and fifty lists have been issued by Royal Books in the past ten years. In 2007, Kevin published The Dark Page, a full color guide to the first edition sources for American film noir in the 1940s, published by Oak Knoll Press.
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Rob Rulon-Miller began his book selling career as a teenager working summers and holidays with his father in The Current Company, a family-owned rare book business in Bristol, Rhode Island. After graduating from Skidmore College, Rob worked full time in various capacities at The Current Company before starting Rulon-Miller Books, which specializes in buying and selling mostly rare, antiquarian, fine, and unusual printed materials, in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1982. He was a long time member of the ABAA Board of Governors, and was President of the ABAA in 1994-96. He was the first and for 17 years the only editor of the ABAA Newsletter (founded in 1989). From 1996 to 2000 he served as General-Secretary of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. His articles about books, book collecting and book selling have appeared in a number of American as well as international trade magazines, and in the ABAA Newsletters. He has issued over 225 rare book catalogs and has lectured on books and book selling both at home and abroad. This is Rob's seventh year on the Seminar faculty, and he has been its Director since 2003. Send email to Rob Rulon-Miller