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  Hilda Teresa Ayala González is the Research Services Librarian at the Graduate Research and Innovation Center (GRIC) at the General Library of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM). She offers workshops in digital scholarship, scholarly communications, and research data and documentation management. She is also part of the UPRM Digital Repository Committee. She holds a Master Degree in Archival Studies from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada (May 2016), and another in Information Science from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (May 2011). Since 2016, she has been part of the board of the Red de Archivos de Puerto Rico (ArchiRED) and after Hurricane Maria, she has been involved in many initiatives to aid and train colleagues in collection care and emergency response.
  
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  Ana I. Steidel holds a Master of Arts degree in Spanish Literature from Purdue University and is currently a student in the Master’s program in Library and Information Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She is interested in digital humanities and digital curation projects. In the Fall of 2018, as part of the requirements for Dr. Joel A. Blanco Rivera’s Digital Library course, she interviewed two librarians about the impact of Hurricane Maria at their respective institutions: University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Library System and Archivo de Medios Audiovisuales.
  
  
  Carlos R. González-Rovira is a student at the Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Besides preservation and conservation, he is interested in cataloging and acquisitions and is a collaborator in the Puerto Rico Center for the Book. As part of the Preservation course, for Prof. Hilda T. Ayala, he interviewed the interim director of the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico's Library about the impact of Hurricane Maria.
  
  
  
  Dinah M. Wilson Fraites works as a Cataloging Librarian at the Library System of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She also offers workshops in information literacy and collaborates as a volunteer with the Portal of Academic Journals of the University of Puerto Rico. She holds a Master's Degree in Information Science (2018) and a Master's in Comparative Literature (2011), both from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. As part of the Preservation course, for Prof. Hilda T. Ayala, she interviewed the director of the Universidad Ana G. Méndez, Carolina campus Library about the impact of Hurricane Maria.
  
  
  Natalia M. Lucena Trujillo holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology with an emphasis on Cultural Studies from the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras and is currently a student in the Master’s program in Library and Information Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She is interested in digitalization projects, preservation, and curatorial processes. As part of the Preservation course, for Prof. Hilda T. Ayala, she interviewed the director of the Center for Access to Information (Centro de Acceso a la Información, CAI in Spanish) about the impact of Hurricane Maria in the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon campus.