Brian C. Gray is the Special Projects Officer for the Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University. He co-chaired the library's implementation of its personal librarian program, and the related three national conferences focused on personal-librarians and first-year-experience programs. He recently co-authored a book called Personal Librarians - Building Relationships for Student Success. He taught technology courses for Kent State University School of Library and Information Science. He has held leadership positions for the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) and for the Academic Library Association of Ohio. He holds a BS in chemical engineering (University of Akron), an MLIS (Kent State University), and an MBA (Case Western Reserve University).