Dave Barron is the principal and creative director of Summit Design and has over 38 years of design background, playing key creative roles on a great variety of themed experiential environments. His design and management expertise comprises such areas as theme parks, family entertainment centers, "experience" libraries, water parks, resorts, and specialty retail and restaurant environments.

Gail McGovern is an independent consultant who specializes in training and consulting with libraries and other non-profit organizations. Topics include assessing community needs, building partnerships and community coalitions, fundraising, grantsmanship, long range planning, program planning and evaluation, public relations, serving diverse populations, time management, training trainers, trustee roles and responsibilities, and workshop planning.

Roberta Perry is owner of the business consulting company Roberta Perry & Associates. Her client list includes Cirque Du Soleil, Cutler Enterprises, ForSight Creations, the Cerritos "Experience" Library, Fox Studios, Mattel, and Paramount Studio's Creative Services.

Curriculum Advisor
Cheryl Gould is the Infopeople Training Director. Since 1996, she has delivered workshops on a wide range of topics from basic computer and searching skills through, Training the Trainer, Word, Powerpoint, Libris Design and Mastering Tough Public Service Situations. Through Infopeople, Cheryl has worked with over 80 different instructors to create workshops on more than 120 different topics of interest to California libraries.

Lou Wetherbee is a library management consultant and frequent seminar and conference speaker in the area of emerging technologies for libraries as well as library networking and resource sharing. She publishes frequently in the professional literature and is an expert on the design, organization and management of cooperative library services.

Florence Mason is a library consultant whose consulting practice includes work with public, academic and special libraries, government organizations and corporations on library building issues, library long range planning, library training and other issues related to the management of library and information services.

For the past 21 years, Waynn has worked for the City of Cerritos as Library Director. He has worked for a variety of California library agencies: Ontario City Library, Pomona Public Library, Pasadena Public Library, and the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System.

In 1975 he received his Masters in Library Science from California State University, Fullerton; his Bachelors of Art is in Public Administration/Political Science from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California.

He has acted as a library-building consultant, technology consultant, and project manager on several projects. In 1984-87, he was the Project Manager for the Cerritos Public Library expansion project that received the American Library Association/American Institute of Architects Award of Excellence in 1989. For the next five years, he was the Assistant Project Manager for the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts building project. Most recently, he spent six years in a collaborative effort conceptualizing, designing, and constructing the first "Experience Library"--the new Cerritos Library.

Waynn was featured as a crusader in Library Journal's 2003 Movers and Shakers issue; he feels that, "In designing the new Cerritos Library, my team and I dispensed with our ideas about existing library models and started thinking about what motivates the people in our community. We changed our focus from books, services, programming, etc. to the user's experience--particularly the user's learning experience--as the library's primary product."