Ellyssa Kroski is the Manager of Information Systems at the New York Law Institute as well as a writer, educator,and international conference speaker. In 2011, she won the ALA's Greenwood Publishing Group Award for the Best Book in Library Literature for The Tech Set, the ten book technology series that she created and edited. She's also the author of Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals, a well-reviewed book on Web technologies and libraries. She speaks at several conferences a year, mainly about new tech trends, digital strategy, and libraries. She is an adjunct faculty member at Pratt Institute and blogs at iLibrarian.