Nena Couch is Head of The Ohio State University Libraries’ Thompson Library Special Collections. Publications include “Choreography in Cholera: The Extended Life of Dance Notation” (A Tyranny of Documents, PAR 28); The Humanities and the Library (co-edited with Nancy Allen); and others on performing arts documentation and librarianship. She was awarded the Harvard Theatre Collection’s Howard D. Rothschild Fellowship for research in Dance (2000), and the Theatre Library Association Distinguished Service in Performing Arts Librarianship Award (2012). Couch currently serves on the Dance Heritage Coalition board and Dance Notation Bureau Professional Advisory Committee.