Melanie E. Hughes is a Librarian and Coordinator of Automation and Technical Services at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana. She is a life-long learner, starting her Wikipedia career with an entry on inventory (library) as an off-shoot of Preservation (library and archival science), a requirement for a Preservation course taught by Jacob J. Nadal, head of the Preservation Program at UCLA at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Library and Information Science in the summer of 2009.

Other contributions include Peter Hunt (folk artist) and Gender Through Comic Books.