Association of Research Libraries (ARL®)

October 13-14, 2011
Washington, DC

Welcoming Remarks

Winston Tabb has served as Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at the Johns Hopkins University since September 2002, and as Vice Provost for the Arts since 2006. He served previously as Associate Librarian of Congress for Library Services, 1992–2002, and from 1989–1992 as Acting Deputy Librarian of Congress. Tabb joined the Library of Congress in 1972 after receiving master’s degrees in American literature from Harvard and in library science from Simmons College. His chief current research interest is the identification of core intellectual property norms needed to advance the mission of libraries both nationally and across borders.

Tabb has long been active in national and international library associations. He has held numerous offices in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), including Chair of the Professional Committee. He currently chairs IFLA’s Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee and is a member of the IFLA-International Publishers Association Steering Committee. He is President of the Association of Research Libraries, and serves on the boards of the National Museum and Library Services, Council on Library and Information Resources, the Johns Hopkins Press, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and Simmons College, among others.

Tabb has received numerous professional awards, most recently the Joseph Lippincott Award from the American Library Association and the John Ames Humphrey/OCLC Forest Press Award for significant contributions to international librarianship, both in 2007.

Carton Rogers is Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). He is responsible for planning, acquiring, managing, leveraging, and preserving the knowledge and information resources that support Penn’s instructional and research programs. He oversees 14 libraries on Penn’s campus, the Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in downtown Philadelphia, and the Penn Libraries’ website and vast digital resources. Rogers is an advocate for libraries in public and government arenas, and he represents Penn’s interest in national and regional library consortia that enhance scholarly access to information. These consortia include the OCLC/RLG partnership, Lyrasis, the Coalition for Networked Information, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the American Library Association, the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (PACHS), the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI), the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, and the North-East Research Libraries Consortium. Rogers is currently on the executive boards of PACHS and PALCI, and is Chair of ARL's Transforming Research Libraries Strategic Directions Committee.

Rogers began his career in librarianship at Penn in 1975 and has held a number of positions at the Penn Libraries, including Head of Reference and Technical Services at the School of Medicine Library, Senior Business Administrator, Library Labor Relations Director, and Associate Director of Libraries and Director of the Goldstein Information Processing Center.

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The World According to American Social Science

Convener

Deborah Jakubs is the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs at Duke University. Prior to her appointment in 2005, she served as the Director of Collections Services, the founding head of the International and Area Studies Department, and Librarian for Latin America and Iberia at Duke. As Visiting Program Officer at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), she launched the AAU/ARL Global Resources Program and directed it from 1996 until 2002. She has been a consultant to library systems in Chile and Turkey, as well as in the US. She has served as Director and Associate Director of the Consortium on Latin American Studies at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, and has been a member since 1996 of the steering committee for the Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Harvard’s Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Jakubs is a member of the ARL Board of Directors and the past president of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries. She has published on library management, international education, and Latin American studies. Her scholarship has focused on the social history of Latin America, immigration to Argentina, the history of tango, and memory and identity. Jakubs holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin Madison, an MLIS from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA and PhD in Latin American history from Stanford University. She is an adjunct associate professor of history at Duke.

Speaker

Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. Kurzman is the author of The Missing Martyrs (2011), Democracy Denied, 1905-1915 (2008), and The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (2004), and editor of the anthologies Modernist Islam, 1840-1940, (2002) and Liberal Islam (1998). His research on trends in American scholarship on international and area studies has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.

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Shaking Up the “Norm” in Collections

Convener

Jay Schafer has been a member of the University of Massachusetts Amherst community for the past 10 years, and the Director of Libraries since 2004. He earned his degree in librarianship from the University of Denver and has served in library administrative positions at a number of institutions, including the University of Colorado at Denver. Schafer combines his expertise in library collection building, resource sharing, and facilities space planning with a deep dedication to providing innovative, high-quality service to library users. The Learning Commons in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library is one successful example of his belief that libraries must evolve to meet the needs of today’s students while maintaining the high standards expected of a nationally ranked research library.

Speakers

David Magier was appointed Associate University Librarian for Collection Development at Princeton University Library in 2008. He is responsible for coordinating the collection development funding and priorities for subject librarians at Firestone and all the branch libraries throughout the University, and provides high-level liaison with faculty in all of the University's Departments and Programs. He participates in key strategic planning initiatives and works to ensure that Princeton's collections (in print, digital, and all other media) grow systematically and dynamically to reflect the evolving trends of research and teaching in all fields at the University. A specialist in South Asian Studies, he previously served for 21 years as South/Southeast Asia Librarian and Director of Area Studies at Columbia University Libraries. He also served as Director of the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research at Columbia.

Magier is well known internationally for his librarian training efforts and his leadership in developing digital library/global resource projects, including the Digital South Asia Library (DSAL), the South Asia Resource Access on the Internet (SARAI), and the Digital Library for International Research (DLIR), a major, ongoing international initiative of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), of which he was the Chief Library Consultant. Magier currently serves as Chair of the Chief Collection Development Officers ("Big Heads") of Large Research Libraries (CCDO). He holds a BA from Cornell, and an MA and PhD in Linguistics (focusing on Indian and Pakistani languages) from UC Berkeley, and was a professor of linguistics at Berkeley and Michigan State University before embarking on his library career.

Ivy Anderson is the Director of Collection Development and Management at the California Digital Library, where she oversees a broad range of shared collections activities encompassing licensed content, management of shared print collections, and mass digitization on behalf of the ten campuses of the University of California system. Her professional interests and contributions center on issues related to licensing, scholarly communications, electronic resource management, and the intersection of electronic and print collection development. Before coming to the CDL in December 2005, Anderson was Program Manager for E-Resource Management and Licensing at the Harvard University Library, where she developed and managed a shared licensing program on behalf of Harvard’s many libraries. Prior to 1998, she served as Head of Information Systems at the Brandeis University Libraries. She holds a BA in music from New York University and an MLS from Simmons College. Before acquiring her library degree, Anderson pursued doctoral studies in music history and theory at Brandeis University.

Rick Anderson is Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources and Collections at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library. He earned his BS and MLIS degrees at Brigham Young University, and has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and as Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and is a regular contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen blog, as well as writing an occasional op-ed column for Against the Grain titled “In My Humble (But Correct) Opinion.” Anderson is the author of, Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians, published in 2004. In 2005, he was identified by Library Journal as a Mover & Shaker—one of 50 people shaping the future of libraries. He was elected president of the North American Serials Interest Group in 2008 and was named an ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow for 2009–10.

Richard E. (Rick) Luce is the Vice-Provost and Director of Libraries at Emory University, with responsibilities for executive and strategic leadership of the Robert W. Woodruff University Library, the Health Sciences library, and university-wide library policy. His publication, “A New Value Equation Challenge: The Emergence of eResearch and Roles for Research Libraries,” was part of the Council on Library and Information Resources Report titled, No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century (2008). Luce holds numerous advisory and consultative positions supporting library information technologies, e-publishing, and scholarly communications. He was a member of the National Academies Committee on Assuring the Integrity of Research Data in an Era of E-Science, and he has served on four NSF Blue Ribbon panels in data-driven science, cyber-infrastructure, and the role of research libraries. Currently he serves on the DataONE external advisory board, SPARC’s Steering Committee, and Stanford’s University Library and Academic Information Resources Advisory Council.

Prior to joining Emory, Rick was the Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1991–2006). Known as an information technology pioneer and organizational innovator, in 2005 the Research Library was recognized as “the world’s best scientific digital library.” He was awarded the Fellows' Prize for Leadership at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2005, the first ever awarded to a nonscientist. In 1999, Rick was a co-founder of the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self-archiving systems. In 2003 he co-organized the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, and in 2004, the Brazilian Declaration on Open Access.

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Scholarship and Scholarly Resources in the 21st Century

Convener

Thomas C. Leonard is the Kenneth and Dorothy Hill University Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley Library. He has been the University Librarian since 2001 and is also a Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism. He came to Berkeley as a graduate student in 1967 and has been there ever since, save for three years as an Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University. He has written extensively on the origins of modern American journalism, including The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting and News for All: America's Coming-of-Age with the Press. He recently edited the autobiography of Berkeley's most wayward journalist, the muckraker Lincoln Steffens. In 2008–2009, Leonard served as President of the Association of Research Libraries.

Speaker

Paul Duguid is an adjunct full professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research professor in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, University of London. He is co-author, with John Seely Brown, of The Social Life of Information (2000), which the Wall Street Journal recently (2011) included in a list of essential reading for managers making sense of information, while Anthony Grafton in the New York Review of Books (2010) called it one of two "prescient books" marking a milestone for historical scholarship. Duguid has also written prizewinning articles on the history of trademarks and widely cited articles on the "community of practice" and the future of education. Before turning to the academic life, Duguid worked in a Silicon Valley research centre (Xerox PARC), founded and ran a small reprint publishing company, managed a London bookshop, and worked in book production for New York publishers. He reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and occasionally for The Nation.

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Focus on Innovation

Convener

Richard E. (Rick) Luce is the Vice-Provost and Director of Libraries at Emory University, with responsibilities for executive and strategic leadership of the Robert W. Woodruff University Library, the Health Sciences library, and university-wide library policy. His publication, “A New Value Equation Challenge: The Emergence of eResearch and Roles for Research Libraries,” was part of the Council on Library and Information Resources Report titled, No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century (2008). Luce holds numerous advisory and consultative positions supporting library information technologies, e-publishing, and scholarly communications. He was a member of the National Academies Committee on Assuring the Integrity of Research Data in an Era of E-Science, and he has served on four NSF Blue Ribbon panels in data-driven science, cyber-infrastructure, and the role of research libraries. Currently he serves on the DataONE external advisory board, SPARC’s Steering Committee, and Stanford’s University Library and Academic Information Resources Advisory Council.

Prior to joining Emory, Rick was the Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1991–2006). Known as an information technology pioneer and organizational innovator, in 2005 the Research Library was recognized as “the world’s best scientific digital library.” He was awarded the Fellows' Prize for Leadership at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2005, the first ever awarded to a nonscientist. In 1999, Rick was a co-founder of the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self-archiving systems. In 2003 he co-organized the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, and in 2004, the Brazilian Declaration on Open Access.

Speakers

Trevor Owens is a Digital Archivist with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress, and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. With NDIIPP he works on several software projects and serves as the co-chair for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance’s Infrastructure working group. Before joining the Library of Congress, Owens was the community lead for the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media, and prior to this he worked for the Games, Learning, and Society Conference. He wrote a book on the history of Fairfax County told through postcards and has published articles in Simulation & Gaming, Science Communication, and On the Horizon. He received his Bachelors degree in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin, and a master's degree in American history with emphasis on digital history at George Mason University.

Nicole Saylor is head of Digital Library Services (DLS) at the University of Iowa Libraries. DLS provides support to scholars engaged in interdisciplinary digital research, by assisting in the creation and delivery of unique digital content and encouraging the use of recognized standards and best practices to ensure long-term preservation and access to digital scholarship. Saylor joined the University of Iowa Libraries in 2007. She holds a BA in Mass Communication from Iowa State University (1992) and an MA in Library and Information Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004). Her previous library positions include archivist-librarian at the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures (CSUMC) at UW-Madison. For a decade prior she worked as an editor at the Kansas City Star and Wisconsin State Journal newspapers. She is currently a member of the NEH-funded National Folklore Archives Initiative Project team and the Project Bamboo Scholars and Digital Collections Survey team.

Martha Anderson is Director of Program Management for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) at the Library of Congress. The program has developed a network of over 200 partners, nationally and internationally, to select, collect, and preserve at-risk digital content. Today the program supports collaborative collection and preservation of digital content of high value for public policy decision-makers as well as shared tools and services for sustaining diverse digital content for long-term access. She manages the web archiving program in support of the Library’s Digital Strategic Initiatives Program.

Anderson has served as a sponsoring representative on the NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force on Economic Sustainability of Preservation and Access. She is the 2012 chair of the Steering Committee for the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC). The IIPC is an international organization of 39 national libraries and archives dedicated to collecting and archiving significant content from the web. During her tenure on the staff of the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress, Anderson served in the roles of Manager of the Digital Conversion Group and Production Coordinator for American Memory historical digitized collections. Prior to joining the Library of Congress in 1996, she worked in electronic publishing as editor and project manager for a variety of CD-ROM reference products.

Greg Raschke is the Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Communication at the North Carolina State University Libraries, where he leads programs to build, manage, and preserve the Libraries’ extensive collections. His responsibilities include overseeing a $10 million+ collections budget and the development of digital collections. He also leads the Libraries’ partnerships in developing new and sustainable channels for scholarly communication. Raschke has published and presented on diverse topics such as the future of research library collections, electronic resources and organizational change, and recruitment practices in academic libraries. He loves the Grateful Dead, baseball, hockey, and his wife and children (not in that order).

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Rebalancing the Investment in Collections

Convener

Anne R. Kenney was appointed the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University in 2008. She came to Cornell University Library in 1987, and her previous positions include serving as interim University Librarian, Associate University Librarian for Instruction, Research, and Information services, and Associate Director for the Department of Preservation and Conservation. Active in the archival and preservation communities, Kenney is known internationally for her pioneering work in developing standards for digitizing library materials research into digital preservation issues. She is also a fellow and past president of the Society of American Archivists, serves on the Social Science Research Council's Committee on Libraries and Archives of Cuba, and was on Portico's Advisory Board. An author of three award-winning books and over 50 scholarly articles and reports, Kenney received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University, a master’s degree in history from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and a master’s degree in library science from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Speakers

Tom Hickerson is Vice Provost for Libraries and Cultural Resources and University Librarian at the University of Calgary. Libraries and Cultural Resources is a principal division of the University of Calgary, combining the university libraries, the university art museum, university archives and special collections, and the University of Calgary Press. He is presently exercising principal responsibility for the programmatic design of the Taylor Family Digital Library and the High Density Library, a $205 million capital project of the University of Calgary. The Taylor Family Digital Library, opening in 2011, is being designed as a unique convergence, incorporating a 21st century research and learning environment for exploring and creating knowledge; a museum housing and exhibiting a rich panoply of cultural and visual arts; historical archives preserving the record of scientific and artistic achievement and documenting the nature of the human experience; and a publishing program devoted to disseminating high-quality academic and general literature via traditional and electronic means.

Hickerson came to the University of Calgary after an extensive career as an archivist, technology innovator, and library administrator at Cornell University, most recently serving as Associate University Librarian for Information Technologies and Special Collections. His information technologies role included direction of the Division of Digital Library and Information Technologies, with general responsibility for digital library development, library systems, and the Center for Innovative Publishing. His special collections responsibilities included oversight for the Library’s principal rare book and manuscript programs. He presently serves as President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. He is a member of the Association of Research Libraries’ Transforming Research Libraries Steering Committee, the Transforming Special Collections in the Digital Age Working Group, and the 21st Century Research Library Collections Task Force. He is a Fellow and former President of the Society of American Archivists and has also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Council on Archives. He was named a 2001 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate in recognition of his contributions to the “use of information technologies for the benefit of society.”

John V. Lombardi is the fifth individual to serve as the President of the Louisiana State University System. As its Chief Executive Officer, he oversees 10 campuses in five cites as well as 10 public hospitals located throughout the state. He is also a Professor of History at Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.

Dr. Lombardi was born in Los Angeles, California, and attended Pomona College where he earned his bachelor’s degree. He received his MA and PhD degrees in history from Columbia University. He joined the faculty in the Department of History at Indiana University, where he later served as Dean of International Programs and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 1987, he became Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University. From 1990–1999, Lombardi was President of the University of Florida. Prior to his appointment as President of the LSU System, he served as Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Dr. Lombardi is a Latin American historian, with a special interest in Venezuela. He is also one of the country’s foremost authorities in higher education, serving as Co-Editor of The Top American Research Universities. He is the author of numerous professional publications, and along with his wife, Cathryn, co-authored a teaching atlas on Latin American History. He has taught courses in history, intercollegiate sports, and university management.

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Closing Remarks

Clifford Lynch has led the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the intelligent uses of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual life. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information. He is both a past president and recipient of the Award of Merit of the American Society for Information, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch currently serves on numerous advisory boards and visiting committees, including the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress and Microsoft Corporation’s Technical Computing Science Advisory Board. His work has been recognized by the American Library Association’s Lippincott Award, the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in Public Policy and Practice, and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Homer Bernhardt Award.

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