Kathy Dempsey is the editor of the Marketing Library Services newsletter and former editor-in-chief of Computers in Libraries magazine. Kathy has a Journalism degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, and worked in publishing for 6 years and in libraries for 7 years before joining ITI in 1994. She has been a regular contributor to the U.K. info industry newspaper Information World Review and to the reference monograph The Bowker Annual. She writes, speaks at seminars, and leads workshops about library marketing topics. Kathy also blogs about library marketing at "The M Word." She started a consultancy called Libraries Are Essential to help librarians promote their value. She also wrote the book The Accidental Library Marketer, published by ITI in July 2009.