Association of Research Libraries (ARL®)

Lars Meyer

Lars Meyer is Sr. Director, Content Division at Emory University Libraries, where he is responsible for tech services, preservation, digitization, and storage. He is also the subject librarian for German studies. Prior to joining Emory in 2002, Lars managed the preservation reformatting department at Columbia University Libraries.

Meyer has chaired numerous committees and discussion groups in the Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS) of the American Library Association. From 2000 to 2003 he served as member-at-large on the PARS Executive Committee. Also from 2000 to 2003, he was co-editor of Microform & Imaging Review. In 2003 he co-authored the RLG Guidelines to Support Microfilming for Digitization (Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group), and more recently, from 2004 to 2006, served on the working group that finalized ANSI/NISO Z39.87—2006 Data Dictionary—Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images.

Meyer earned an MLIS at the University of Texas at Austin (1995) and a BA in anthropology and German from the University of California, Davis (1990).

Deborah Jakubs

Deborah Jakubs is the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs. She provides leadership in the delivery of information services that support the teaching and research of the Duke community as well as the international community of scholars. She administers the university's Perkins Library System, comprised of eight libraries and a state-of-the-art shelving facility. She also oversees the Center for Instructional Technology, and works closely with the university's Chief Information Officer and deans to ensure that the libraries are contributing fully to the teaching and research initiatives of the university.

The Duke libraries rank among the nation's top ten private research libraries, and the Perkins system houses more than five million volumes, over 30,000 serials, and millions of additional resources in a variety of formats. The libraries' digital collections are visited by thousands of users worldwide. The web gateway to the libraries can be found at http://library.duke.edu.

Appointed to her position in 2005, Jakubs came to Duke in 1983 and has been active in area studies, international education and cooperative collection development. She previously served as the Librarian for Latin America and Iberia, the Head of the International and Area Studies Department and, most recently, Director of Collections Services for the Perkins system libraries. As a visiting program officer at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) 1996-2002, she directed the Global Resources Program, a joint multi-institutional effort of ARL and the Association of American Universities (AAU) to expand access to international scholarly resources through cooperative structures and new technologies. She chairs the Area Studies Council of the Center for Research Libraries and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Program for Latin American Library and Archival Collections, Harvard University.

Jakubs is an Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Duke, and has served as the Director (1997-99) and Associate Director (1995-97, 2000-2002) of the University of North Carolina - Duke University Consortium in Latin American Studies. She holds a B. A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an M.L.I.S. from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph. D. in Latin American History from Stanford University.

http://library.duke.edu/about/depts/administration/university-librarian.html

Jim Neal

Jim Neal is currently the Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, providing leadership for university academic computing and a system of twenty-two libraries. His responsibilities include the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, the Copyright Advisory Office, and the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research. He participates on key academic, technology, budget and policy groups at the University. Previously, he served as the Dean of University Libraries at Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University, and held administrative positions in the libraries at Penn State, Notre Dame, and the City University of New York.

Neal has served on the Council and Executive Board of the American Library Association and is currently Chair of the Budget Advisory and Review Committee (BARC); on the Board and as President of the Association of Research Libraries; on the Board and as Chair of the Research Libraries Group (RLG), and Chair of the RLG Program Committee of the OCLC Board. He has served on the Board and as Chair of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and on the Board of the Freedom to Read Foundation. He has also served on numerous international, national, and state professional committees, and is an active member of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).

Neal is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, consultant and published author, with a focus in the areas of scholarly communication, intellectual property, digital library programs, organizational change and human resource development. He has served on the Scholarly Communication committees of ARL and ACRL and as Chair of the Steering Committee of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, and currently on the Board of the Columbia University Press. He has represented the American library community in testimony on copyright matters before Congressional committees, was an advisor to the U.S. delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference on copyright, has worked on copyright policy and advisory groups for universities and for professional and higher education associations, and during 2005-08 was a member of the U.S. Copyright Office Section 108 Study Group. He was selected the 1997 Academic Librarian of the Year by the Association of College and Research Libraries and was the 2007 recipient of ALA’s Hugh Atkinson Memorial Award and the 2009 ALA Melvil Dewey Medal Award.

http://www.columbia.edu/~jneal/