Marshall Breeding is the Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University and serves as the Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.  

Breedng is the creator of the Library Technology Guides website (www.librarytechnology.org) and the lib-web-cats online directory of libraries (www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats).  He writes a monthly column for Computers in Libraries, is a contributing editor for Smart Libraries Newsletter published by ALA Techsource, has written the Automation System Marketplace feature published in Library Journal for the last 7 years, has written 7 issues of Library Technology Reports, is on the editorial boards for Information Standards Quarterly published by NISO and Electronic Library.  He has edited or authoried five books.  

He is a frequent speaker at library converences, throughout the United States and internationally, including Colombia, China, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, The Netherlands, Canada, and the United Kingdom.  In December 2008 Breeding spent three weeks in Argentina as a Fullbright Senior Specialist.  He speaks on issues involving many aspects of library technology and the library automation industry.