Rebecca Bryant, PhD, serves as Senior Program Officer at OCLC Research where she leads research and outreach activities related to an array of topics impacting academic libraries, including research information management (RIM), research data management (RDM), and institutional scholarly communications practices. Her OCLC publications include Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-Campus Partnerships and the University Research Enterprise, Research Information Management: Defining RIM and the Library’s Role, Convenience and Compliance: Case Studies on Persistent Identifiers in European Research Information Management, and The Realities of Research Data Management. She is currently leading a project investigating Research Information Management in US Institutions, with publication planned for late 2021. Prior to joining OCLC in 2016, Bryant served as a Director of Community at ORCID. She also spent several years at the University of Illinois, primarily as Assistant Dean in the Graduate College, and also in project management roles leading the implementation of the campus Experts RIM system and serving on the system-wide ERP (Banner) implementation project.