Daniel Chudnov is a librarian and programmer currently working as an Information Technology Specialist in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress [1]. Before taking this position in March 2007, he was lead developer for the Canary Database [2] and unalog [3] at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics [4], worked as a freelance developer and writer, and also contributed to several well-known open source projects for libraries, including the initial development and implementation of DSpace [5] at MIT Libraries [6], the jake project at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library [7] at the Yale University School of Medicine, and a precursor to the award-winning Prospero project, the first widely-used web-based document delivery toolkit. He is a frequent speaker and author on technology and the importance of free software in libraries, and he started the oss4lib [8] weblog and listserv in 1999 to promote the use of open source in our community. In January 2007, he started writing the monthly "Libraries in Computers" column for Computers in Libraries [9] magazine.

Daniel earned an MS at the School of Information in 1997 and studied Economics and Japanese as an undergraduate, both at the University of Michigan. In 2005, he received the LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award [10] from the Library & Information Technology Association of the American Library Association.

He has been cancer-free since 1993.