Edward J. Valauskas

Edward J. Valauskas (born October 3, 1950) is an American librarian, educator, and editor-in-chief of First Monday.

Valauskas has taught at the School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University; International Centre for Information Management Systems and Services, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland; Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; UC Berkeley Extension; University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies; and, Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden. In 2016, he was elected as Director-at-Large to the Board of Management of the International Centre for Information Management Systems and Services in Torun.

Edward has worked in a variety of libraries, including those on the campuses of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago as well as special libraries at the Charles E. Merriam Center for Public Administration (MCL) in Chicago; Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) Laboratory in Texas; and, United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland (UNOG). Most recently, he was curator of rare books at the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden. He was the curator of the traveling exhibit, Plants in Print: The Age of Botanical Discovery. The exhibit opened on 1 April 2004 at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. and has since appeared at the Chicago Botanic Garden, Milton Hershey School Art Museum in Hershey, Pa., Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center, and Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, Ohio.

Edward has used a variety of rare herbals from the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden for lectures on Renaissance science as reflected in the Harry Potter series. These talks, entitled "Harry Potter's Herbology", have occurred at the Chicago Botanic Garden. and elsewhere.

Valauskas is the founder and current editor-in-chief of First Monday.

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