Emily Kilcer is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University at Albany where she works to inform, support, and connect open efforts on campus. She holds a MLIS from Simmons College, and gathered diverse library experiences at Newton Public Library, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Emmanuel College, and MIT. Most recently, before joining UAlbany, Emily spent several years at Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication on projects that supported outreach and education on open access, copyright, licensing, and electronic theses and dissertations.