Joan K. Lippincott is Associate Executive Director Emerita of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint program of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE, based in Washington, DC. At CNI, Joan provided leadership for programs in digital scholarship, teaching and learning, learning spaces, ETDs, and assessment. Joan authored a number of reports on digital scholarship activities for CNI and co-edited Designing Libraries for the 21^st Century, published in 2022 by ACRL. She served on the board of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and on the advisory boards for the EDUCAUSE Horizon Report for both higher education and libraries. Joan was the editor of the EDUCAUSE Review E-Content column and was chair of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ (ACRL) New Publications Board, and served as a member of the ACRL task force that produced the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. She has served on the Advisory Boards of the Learning Spaces Collaboratory and the Learning Space Toolkit project. Joan has consulted with many academic libraries on their space renovation projects and has been on the planning committee for the Designing Libraries for the 21^st Century conference since its inception.