Janice T. Pilch is Associate Professor of Library Administration and Head of Slavic and East European Acquisitions in the University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 2001 she has researched and published on international copyright issues. Janice has served as chair of the American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy Copyright Advisory Subcommittee, and in October 2007 was appointed as one of the American Library Association’s first international copyright advocates, representing the Library Copyright Alliance at copyright-related meetings of the World Intellectual Property Association and other international fora. As an advocate, she represents the interests of American libraries and contributes to position statements to advance fair and equitable access to information.

Janice chairs a permanent committee on copyright issues within the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, which is dedicated to education, current awareness, and practical assistance on copyright for scholars and librarians in the field of Slavic studies. In 2006-2007 Janice represented the University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in public roundtables and in statements in connection with the review of Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act being conducted by the Section 108 Study Group organized by the U.S. Copyright Office and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress. She is currently co-authoring a book on international copyright for librarians and educators.

Janice is a graduate of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, achieved Ph.D. candidacy in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian Language and Literature at Brown University.