Kevin S. Clarke is currently the Coordinator of Web Services at Belk Library and Information Commons, Appalachian State University. In this role, he manages the Library's digital initiatives and coordinates the activities of the Web Services team. Previously, he worked as the Digital Projects Programmer at Firestone Library, Princeton University, and as the Digital Information Systems Developer at Lane Medical Library, Stanford University.

Kevin holds a Master of Science in Information Science (MSIS) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has over nine years of experience developing integrative digital information systems. He also has a background in library metadata, having started his career in cataloging. He thinks of himself as a library technologist, mixing the best of library world with the best of the IT world.

He is the co-author of the book Putting XML to Work in the Library: Tools for Improving Access and Management and has presented and published on a variety of topics related to library metadata and digital information systems. For several semesters, he taught a course on XML at San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science. He recently finished an article on XML for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.