Valerie Horton is the Director of Minitex, a three-state library network. Prior to that, she was the Director of the Colorado Library Consortium, Library Director for Colorado Mesa University, Head of Systems at NMSU, and a Systems Librarian at Brown University. She received an ALA International Fellowship to automate libraries in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Valerie co-authored 2 books for ALA Editions and is a columnist for Collaborative Librarianship.