Margaret Maes is the executive director of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance. She graduated with a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 1973 and an M.A. from the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship in 1975. She has worked as a librarian at Hindry & Meyer, P.C.; head librarian for the National Center for State Courts, acquisitions librarian and foreign & international law bibliographer at the Cornell Law Library, assistant director for collections and technical services at the University of Minnesota Law Library and associate director for information resources at the University of St. Thomas Schoenecker Law Library.