Welcome, new members: Nicholas Cop, Taliá Guzmán-González, Julianne Gilland

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• On: 03/16/2015 14:27:28
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Nicholas Cop is the Founder and President of Nicholas Cop Consulting, LLC which he established in 2005. The company, based in Florida, provides information and education consulting services to universities, publishers, and academic and research library networks at the national and regional levels, primarily in Latin America. It also provides translation services of scholarly and technical texts in Spanish and Portuguese into English.
Nicholas was the founding director of OCLC's Sales and Marketing Division for Latin America and the Caribbean (1995-2005). In addition to the various assignments the company undertakes, Nicholas is the international consultant to the SciELO e-journal and eBook initiatives, and was a member of the first Redalyc Advisory Board.
A graduate in physics (B.Sc.) from McMaster University, Canada, with postgraduate studies undertaken at the University of Toronto, Canada, Nicholas is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese with a working knowledge of French and Slovenian.

Talía Guzmán-González is a second-year MLS student in the iSchool at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). She holds a PhD in Brazilian Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and an MA from Indiana University- Bloomington. Prior to pursuing the MLS, she taught Portuguese language, Luso-Brazilian literature, and Latin American Studies at UMCP. Talía wants to combine her studies in MLS with her teaching and research experience and pursue career in an academic library or cultural heritage institution. She is interested in area studies related to Latin America, international librarianship, and digital humanities.

Julianne Gilland is Associate Director for Scholarly Resources at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and Special Collections Curator for the Benson Latin American Collection. Before joining the Benson in 2013, she served as Deputy Director of the Robbins Collection at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Julianne received her Ph.D. in history from Berkeley in 2002, where she specialized in early modern Spain and Spanish America.