Roy Tennant is a Senior Program Officer for OCLC Research. Roy is the creator and owner of the electronic discussion Web4Lib and the creator and editor of Current Cites, an open access current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. Roy has authored several books and has written numerous articles for professional magazines and journals. In 2003, he received the American Library Association's LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education.