Lynn Silipigni Connaway is the retired Executive Director, Research, OCLC, USA. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received the 2020 Distinguished Alumna Award from the Information School and a 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award from the School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the co-author of Research Methods in Library and Information Science with Marie L. Radford (2021) and the co-author of Basic Research Methods for Librarians with Ronald R. Powell (1997).