Dr. Fiona Kelley was born and raised in Connecticut. Her parents were both teachers (though her mother quit teaching to raise their two daughters), and the family would take European vacations every summer, exploring castles and enjoying picnic lunches.
Billie Mae Polson was the head of Technical Services in the James R. Dickinson Library at Southern Regional Division of the University of Nevada, now the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. Polson was born in 1932 in Clark, Nevada. Polson was hired as a cataloging and reference librarian in the summer of 1959. After fourty years of service to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Polson retired in 1999. As of 2020, Billie Mae Polson resides in Henderson, Nevada.