Dr Samantha Kelly Hastings is director and professor at the University of South Carolina, School of Library and Information Science. Previously she directed the digital image management program of study at the University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Sciences, and has worked as a consultant helping public libraries and museums share their cultural objects in a digital environment. A previous president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (www.asist.org) and acquisitions editor for the ASIS&T Monograph series, she will be President of The Association for Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE) in 2015.