Carole Moore has served as Chief Librarian at the University of Toronto since 1986. Her professional interests include an active involvement in using digital methods to preserve and disseminate our intellectual heritage. She is currently involved in digitization projects, such as the CFI funded Synergies initiative and Canadiana.org, to make the resources of the University of Toronto more easily and widely accessible. Moore has also served as Associate Librarian Technical Services, Head of Cataloguing and Head of Reference Departments at the University of Toronto, and prior to that, as a reference librarian at Columbia University. She has served as President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and on the Boards of the Library and Archives Canada, Association of Research Libraries, and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. She is currently a member of the boards of the University of Toronto Press, Canadiana.org, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. She received an A.B. from Stanford University and an M.S. from Columbia University.
Ted Bergstrom has held the Cherie and Aaron Raznick Chair in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1997. Prior to this he was a Professor at the University of Michigan from 1975 to 1996. Bergstrom has held appointments as a visiting scholar, fellow, and professor at institutions around the world. He has published in a broad range of areas including economic theory, public finance, economics of the family, resource economics, economics of publications, health economics, and economics of altruism. A recent article, “Librarians and the Terrible Fix: Economics of the Big Deal,” was published in Serials in 2010. Bergstrom, along with colleagues, Paul Courant (Michigan) and R. Preston McAfee (Yahoo!), developed a project to study the prices of academic journals and maintain a website called journalprices.com. Bergstrom received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Carleton College (Minnesota) and his doctorate in economics from Stanford University.
Claudio Aspesi, Senior Research Analyst, joined Sanford C. Bernstein in 2004 covering European Media Stocks. Previously he was Global Senior Vice President of Strategy at EMI Music and was responsible for defining EMI's business model as the music industry entered the digital age. Before joining EMI in 2002, Aspesi was a member of the executive team at Airclic, an Internet infrastructure company and, prior to that, a Principal at McKinsey and Co., working with many leading media and entertainment companies. He graduated with highest honors from Universita' Luigi Bocconi, Milan with a Laurea in Economia Aziendale.
William (Bill) J. Cook joined American Geophysical Union (AGU) as Director of Publications in November 2010. AGU publishes 12 highly respected, peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the Journal of Geophysical Research, which comprises seven disciplinary sections and the highly cited Reviews of Geophysics. Cook came to AGU from the American Chemical Society, where from 1997 to 2006 he was Vice President for Finance of the ACS Publications Division. Prior to joining ACS, he worked for several other companies involved in publishing: Crown Books, a Washington, DC based discount retailer with over 160 stores in 6 states; Derwent Corporation, a subsidiary of Thomson Publishing; and Craver, Mathews, Smith & Company. Cook holds bachelor of science (Business) and master of science (Information Systems) degrees from George Mason University. Cook has served on the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Executive Committee of the Association of American Publishers since 2001.
Carol A. Mandel is dean of the Division of Libraries at New York University, which includes the Libraries, Campus Media Services, University Archives, and the NYU Press. Prior to joining New York University, she served as Deputy University Librarian at Columbia University, Associate University Librarian for Technical and Access Services at the University of California, San Diego, and associate executive director of the Association of Research Libraries. The focus of her professional interests has included digital library development, scholarly publishing, preservation, and knowledge access. Her publications and presentations have explored changing modes of research and teaching, new infrastructure and roles for research support, transitions and new models in scholarly communication, and access to primary resources. She is deeply committed to enabling, translating and achieving the core mission and goals of research libraries in our digital era.
Mandel is currently President of the Association of Research Libraries. She is past president of the Digital Library Federation and former chair of the Association of Research Libraries Steering Committee on Scholarly Communication. She is a member of the Research Libraries Group Program Council and the OCLC Board Committee of RLG, the Board of Directors of the Association of Research Libraries, the Board of Directors of ARTstor, the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, and the Portico Advisory Committee. Mandel is the recipient of the 2011 Hugh C. Atkinson Award. She holds a bachelor or art in art from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and masters degrees in art history and in library service from Columbia University.
Guy Berthiaume, a native of Montréal, has been Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) since June 2009. From 2008 to 2009, he was Vice-President for Research at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and from 2002 to 2008, he served as Vice-President - Advancement at the Université de Montréal. Berthiaume held various research administration positions at the Université de Montréal, the Government of Quebec, and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) from 1976 to 1998. He sat on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Association of Research Administrators (CAURA), which he chaired from 1989-1990.
Berthiaume is a Knight in the Ordre des Palmes académiques of the French Republic (2006) and he currently is a mentor with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. In 2010, he was elected secretary general of the Réseau Francophone Numérique, an organization that includes 16 heritage libraries from member countries of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. He holds a doctorate in ancient history from the Université de Paris VIII.
Debra Steidel Wall is Chief of Staff at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), joining the organization in 1991 as an archivist trainee. She previously served as Senior Special Assistant to the Archivist and as Director of the Lifecycle Coordination Staff, where she led staff responsible for developing policies, processes, and standards relating to the life cycle of records. Wall served as the manager of the Archival Research Catalog (ARC) database and other information technology projects, served as Deputy Director of the Information Resources Policy and Projects Division, and as an archivist in the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video unit. She has served as a member of the International Council on Archives (ICA) Committee on Information Technology and Committee on Descriptive Standards. Wall holds an undergraduate degree in history and government from Georgetown University and a graduate degree in film from American University. She has a master’s certificate in information technology project management from George Washington University.
Daniel J. Caron joined the federal public service in 1982. In 2009, he was appointed Librarian and Archivist of Canada. One year after, he launched the modernization initiative in order to ensure the institution would be able to embrace the multiple challenges of the digital environment. This initiative is a call for collaboration, epistemologically grounded institutional policies, and policy driven decisions. In addition to his organizational experience, Caron is a seasoned author and speaker on public administration and issues related to information and memory both in Canada and abroad. He has also taught in several Canadian universities. Caron holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in economics from the Université Laval, and went on to obtain a doctorate in applied human sciences from the Université de Montréal.
Deanna Marcum was appointed Associate Librarian for Library Services on August 11, 2003. In this capacity she manages 53 divisions and offices that are responsible for acquisitions, cataloging, public service, and preservation activities, services to the blind and physically handicapped, and network and bibliographic standards for America’s national library. She is also responsible for integrating the emerging digital resources into the traditional artifactual library–the first step toward building a national digital library for the 21st century.
In 1995, Marcum was appointed President of the Council on Library Resources and President of the Commission on Preservation and Access. She oversaw the merger of these two organizations into the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in 1997 and served as president until August 2003. She served as Director of Public Service and Collection Management at the Library of Congress from 1993-95. Marcum has received honorary doctorates from North Carolina State University and Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan and is a recipient of the 2011 Melvil Dewey Award. Marcum holds a PhD in American studies from the University of Maryland, a master’s degree in library science from the University of Kentucky, and a bachelor’s degree in English from University of Illinois.
David Carlson has been Dean, Library Affairs, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale since September 2001. Prior to that appointment, he has had a wide range of experience in academic and research libraries including serving as Executive Director of the Triangle Research Libraries in North Carolina. Much of his career has emphasized the integration and application of information technologies in academic and research libraries.
Currently, Carlson serves as Chair of the SPARC Steering Committee, and as a member of the governing boards for BioOne, the Greater Western Libraries Alliance, and CARLI: the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois. The Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries selected him as the Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year in 2010. Carlson received a master’s in library science from the University of Michigan and a masters in computer science education from the University of Evansville.
Dieter Stein has been Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (Germany) since 1990. Prior to this he taught applied linguistics and translation at Heidelberg University until 1982. After his Habilitation at Aachen in 1982, he was appointed professor for english linguistics (text- and discourse linguistics) at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen and transferred to Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf in 1990. Stein has served in a number of administrative capacities, including dean and several terms as chairman. He has also taught at various universities in the United States, Canada, Spain, and Italy, and he was an invited scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He publishes on a broad range of topics ranging from the theory of linguistic change, via applied linguistics, the linguistics of discourse, to language and communication in the Internet, the theory of genre and the language of law.
Stein served as President of the International Society of Historical Linguistics. He is currently President of the International Language and Law Society and editor-in-chief of the Linguistic Society of America’s digital Publication Portal “ELanguage”. He was the organizer and conference director of “Berlin 6”, the Max Planck Open Access conference at Duesseldorf. Stein obtained degrees (Staatsexamen) in geography and English at Saarbrücken University and a PhD in english linguistics at Saarbrücken.
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-Elect of the Association of Research Libraries, and serves on the boards of the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Johns Hopkins Press, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and Simmons College among others. In 2010, President Obama appointed Tabb to the National Museum and Library Services Board.
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.
Jonathan Band helps shape the laws governing intellectual property and the Internet through a combination of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented clients with respect to the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA); database protection legislation; the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act; and other federal and state statutes relating to intellectual property and the Internet. He complements this legislative advocacy by filing amicus briefs in significant cases related to these provisions.
Band’s deep substantive knowledge of the application of intellectual property law to information technology permits him to counsel clients on complex copyright issues. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and has written extensively on intellectual property and the Internet, including the book Interfaces on Trial and over 60 articles. Band received a bachelor of arts, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College, and a JD from Yale Law School. From 1985 to 2005, he worked at the Washington, D.C., office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, including thirteen years as a partner. Band established his own law firm in May 2005.
Justin Hughes teaches intellectual property, international trade, and internet law at Cardozo Law School, where students selected him for best professor awards in 2000, 2006, 2009, and 2010. He was Director of the law school's Intellectual Property Program from 2004 through 2008; he is the founder and faculty director of the law school's Indie Film Clinic, the first of its kind. Since November 2009, Hughes has also served as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property. In that capacity he leads many of the United States' delegations at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Before joining academia, Hughes did intellectual property policy in the Clinton Administration. He also practiced law in Paris and Los Angeles. As a Henry Luce Scholar, he clerked for the Lord President of the Malaysian Supreme Court in Kuala Lumpur. In the 1990s, he did volunteer work in democracy development in Latin America, West Africa, and the Balkans, including serving as deputy producer for the first televised presidential debates in Bosnia (1998) following the Dayton Peace Accords. From 2005 to 2009, he served as chairman of the Technicolor/Thomson Foundation for Film and Television Heritage, headquartered in Paris. Hughes is the author of several articles on intellectual property, Internet law, international arbitration, and linguistics. He was educated at Oberlin and Harvard.
Paul Whitney is a consultant on library and public policy issues. He served as the City Librarian at Vancouver Public Library (VPL) from 2003 to his retirement at the end of 2010. Prior to joining VPL, Paul was Chief Librarian at Burnaby Public Library for 13 years. Mr. Whitney has been involved in various professional activities throughout his career, including serving as President of the Canadian Library Association and the British Columbia Library Association. Paul is a member of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Governing Board (GB) and is the Governing Board liaison to IFLA’s Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee (CLM).
In 2002, Whitney received the Canadian Library Association’s Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award and the British Columbia Library Association President’s Award for contributions to the Association. In 2001, he received the University of British Columbia’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies Alumni Service and Leadership Award.
Ernie Ingles is the Vice-Provost at the University of Alberta. In 1990, he moved to the University of Alberta, as Chief Librarian and Director of Libraries and in 1995, he assumed the role of Associate Vice-President (Learning Systems), a new position at the University, created to provide leadership, and a framework for planning and coordination of information and instructional technology and related resources for the institution. A key contribution to the Canadian library community was his founding of the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute, now acclaimed worldwide as a landmark contribution to librarianship, and professional development.
Ingles is a member of the ARL Board of Directors and President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. He has been an active player within the Canadian library and information technology communities, having served over one hundred professional, association and community organizations. He has held numerous executive positions on Boards, including the Presidency of the Canadian Library Association, the Bibliographic Society of Canada, the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries, and the Saskatchewan Library Association. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Ruth Cameron Medal for Librarianship, the Marie Tremaine Medal for Bibliography, the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries Award for Outstanding Librarian, and the Innovation Achievement Award from the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries.
Ingles received bachelor of art and master of art degrees in history, and the history of agricultural technology at the University of Calgary. He was the recipient of the Rutherford Cameron Medal from the School of Librarianship at the University of British Columbia.
Heather Munroe-Blum is Principal (President) and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University and Professor in Medicine. A distinguished psychiatric epidemiologist, she has dedicated her career to the advancement of higher education, science and innovation, in Canada and internationally, advising governments and other organizations on the role that universities, research and highly qualified talent play in advancing international competitiveness and enriching societies.
Munroe-Blum serves on numerous not-for-profit and private boards. She serves on the Board and the Internationalization Committee of the Association of American Universities (AAU), and chairs the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada’s Standing Advisory Committee on University Research (SACUR). She is a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Council (STIC) of Canada, U.S. National Research Council’s Committee on Research Universities, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Trilateral Commission, and is the co-chair of the Private Sector Advisory Committee of the Ontario-Quebec Trade and Co-operation Agreement. She serves on the boards of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Trudeau Foundation, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Conférence de Montréal, and the Yellow Media Inc. She is the past President of the Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec (CREPUQ) and was a founding director of the Medical and Related Sciences Discovery District (MARS) and Genome Canada, where she also served as Vice-Chair of the Board.
Named an Officer of the Order of Canada for her outstanding record of achievements in science, innovation and higher education policy, Munroe-Blum also holds numerous honorary degrees from Canadian and international universities. She is a Specially Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Senior Fellow of Massey College. She was named a Grande Montréalaise, Montréal’s highest honour, in 2008 and received the National Order of Quebec in June 2009.
Munroe-Blum holds a PhD with distinction in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in addition to MSW (Wilfrid Laurier University) and BA and BSW degrees (McMaster University).
Judith C. Russell is the Dean of University of Libraries of Florida. She was formerly the Managing Director, Information Dissemination and Superintendent of Documents at the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). She previously served as Deputy Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) and as director of the Office of Electronic Information Dissemination Services and Federal Depository Library Program at GPO.
Russell worked for over ten years in the information industry, doing marketing and product development as well as serving as a government-industry liaison. Her corporate experience includes Information Handling Services (IHS) and its parent company, the Information Technology Group; Disclosure Information Group; Lexis Nexis (then Mead Data Central), and IDD Digital Alliances, a subsidiary of Investment Dealers Digest. She received her master’s in library science from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
Wendy Pradt Lougee is the University Librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. The Association of College and Research Libraries recognized the Libraries with the 2009 Excellence in Academic Libraries award. Prior to her appointment at the University of Minnesota in 2002, Lougee held several positions at the University of Michigan over a 20-year period, including Director of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library and Associate Director of the University Library for Digital Library Services. Her work in launching and developing a premier digital library program at Michigan was recognized with the American Library Association’s Hugh Atkinson Award in 2003, Computerworld Honors Program Laureate in 2002, and Michigan’s Walter H. Kaiser Award in 2001. She held earlier appointments at Brown University and Wheaton College (Massachusetts).
Lougee has served on the Research Libraries Group Board of Directors, as President of the Digital Library Federation, and as Chair of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) E-Science Task Force. Currently, she serves as Vice Chair of the Council on Library and Information Resources Board and is a member of the ARL Board of Directors, Ithaka Research Advisory Committee, and Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership Board. Her research and publications have focused on digital library development, information economics, assessment of research behavior, virtual organizations, and e-research. Lougee holds a bachelor of art in English (Lawrence University), a master’s in library science (University of Wisconsin) and a master of art in psychology (University of Minnesota).
John Wilkin is the Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology (LIT) at the University of Michigan and is the Executive Director of HathiTrust, a repository for universities to archive and share their digitized collections. He previously served as the Head of the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) at the University of Michigan, a position he held from its inception since 1996. In 1988, he assumed responsibility for the University of Michigan’s English and American language and literature collection development, as well as library research support for English faculty and graduate students. Soon after, he implemented a campus-wide service for the analysis of electronic text and encoding text in SGML. In 1992, he began work at the University of Virginia as the Systems Librarian for Information Services where he shaped the library’s plan for establishing a group of electronic centers, led and provided technical support for those centers and consulted for the University’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) in textual issues. Wilkins earned graduate degrees in English from the University of Virginia and in library science from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Brinley Franklin, Vice Provost for Libraries at the University of Connecticut (UConn), has led the UConn Libraries since 1999. Previously, he served as corporate librarian for PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG and then was a manager in KPMG’s higher education management consulting practice in Washington, D.C. Franklin has published and presented internationally on academic research library management and assessment topics and has consulted at more than fifty academic research libraries. He is the co-developer of MINES for Libraries®, part of the ARL StatsQual® toolkit, and chaired the ARL Statistics and Measurement Committee. He served as President of the Association of Research Libraries, the Boston Library Consortium, and NELINET. Franklin also served as Treasurer of ACRL’s New England Chapter, was a member of the IFLA Statistics Committee, and currently serves on the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Board of Directors.
Martha Kyrillidou as the Senior Director of ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs has been responsible for all aspects of the Statistics and Assessment capability since 1994. She is responsible for identifying tools for measuring the organizational performance and effectiveness of libraries. She monitors developments in statistics and measurement programs in other agencies as they relate to libraries and higher education. She pioneered the development of the StatsQUAL gateway, offering assessment products and services to the library community ranging from descriptive statistics to evaluative tools focusing on service quality improvements. Martha provides analytical expertise to libraries addressing both strategic and policy issues, and has widely disseminated assessment developments through numerous publications.
Kyrillidou is currently collaborating with Carol Tenopir (Tennessee) and Paula Kaufman (Illinois) on a three-year IMLS grant (Lib-Value, 2010-2012) researching articulation and measurement of library value and return-on-investment (ROI) for academic libraries. She holds a Ph.D. in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received a master’s in library science and masters of education with specialization in evaluation and measurement from Kent State University and a bachelor of arts degree in English from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Sarah M. Pritchard is the Dean of Libraries and the Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian at Northwestern University. She oversees the Main Library, Deering Library, and the Science & Engineering Library (all on the Evanston campus), the Schaffner Library on the Chicago campus, and the library in NU-Qatar. She also has oversight of the Northwestern University Press. Pritchard’s prior positions include University Librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, (UCSB), Director of Libraries at Smith College, associate executive director at the Association of Research Libraries, and reference specialist in women’s studies at the Library of Congress.
Pritchard has held numerous offices in library professional associations and consortia, and served four terms on the council of the American Library Association. She is currently on the Strategic Advisory Board of the Hathi Trust, and the "Transforming Special Collections in the Digital Age" working group of the Association of Research Libraries. She has published over 65 articles and reviews, and is the editor of portal: Libraries and the Academy, from Johns Hopkins University Press. She has lectured and consulted internationally on library management, women's studies, digital systems, collection development and other professional issues. Pritchard received her bachelor of art degree in French & Italian with high honors from the University of Maryland, and master’s degrees in French and in library science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sandra Yee has served as Dean of the Wayne State University Library System since May 2001. The Library System includes five libraries (the Adamany Undergraduate Library, the Purdy/Kresge (graduate) Library, the Science and Engineering Library, the Arthur Neef Law Library and the Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library) and the School of Library and Information Science, an ALA accredited Library School. The Library System also serves as the fiscal agent for DALNET (the Detroit Area Library Network), a multi-type library consortium in Southeastern Michigan, which manages a shared automation system for 18 member libraries.
Before coming to Wayne State University, Yee served as Associate Dean for Learning Resources at Eastern Michigan University where she played a significant role in planning and building the Bruce T. Halle Library, a $41.7M facility, opening in 1998, which included the nation’s second automated storage and retrieval system in an academic library. Yee is a member of the ARL Board of Directors.
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 President of the Association of Research Libraries.
Brenda L. Johnson currently serves as the Ruth Lilly Dean of University Libraries at Indiana University Bloomington. Prior to her arrival at Indiana University in 2010, she was the University Librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Before joining the UCSB libraries, she served as Interim Co-University Librarian of the University of Michigan Libraries. She served the University of Michigan Libraries in various roles for more than 20 years, where she distinguished herself as Associate University Librarian for Public Services with responsibility for their 19 libraries. At Michigan, Johnson pioneered several new services to integrate librarians into the academic process and created programs to recognize innovation in teaching and learning.
Johnson’s representation within the national and international library community includes her membership on the Executive Committee of HathiTrust, the CLOCKSS Board of Directors, and the Kuali OLE Board of Directors. She currently serves on the ARL Transforming Research Libraries Steering Committee and recently authored an article for ARL’s Research Library Issues on transforming roles for academic librarians. Johnson is convening a Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Steering Committee to plan for a CIC shared print repository, with the first host site for the repository to be located at Indiana University. She received her master’s in library science from Rutgers University and then worked there for the first five years of her career.
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.
Brian E. C. Schottlaender has served as The Audrey Geisel University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) since 1999. Under Schottlaender’s leadership, the UCSD Libraries were the first in Southern California to partner with Google on its global book digitization project. Additionally, the UCSD Libraries have played a key role in building out the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance (PRDLA)—an international consortium of 31 prestigious academic libraries—to facilitate user access to scholarly research materials by using digital technologies.
Schottlaender is a member of the Executive Committee of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the OCLC Board of Trustees, and the executive committee of the Hathi Trust. He is also a member of the SPARC Steering Committee and the ARL e-Science Working Group. Currently, he is an investigator on three extramurally funded projects with national significance. In 2010, Schottlaender was awarded the Melvil Dewey Medal by the American Library Association in recognition of his “creative leadership of a high order.” He previously held positions at the California Digital Library, UCLA, the University of Arizona, and Indiana University before joining UCSD.
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 that have been adopted by organizations around the world, including such important archives as JSTOR, the Scholarly Journal Archive. 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.
William Maher has served as the University Archivist and Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) since 1995. Prior to this he was Assistant University Archivist at UIUC from 1977 to 1995. During this time he served as Program Officer at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities from 1985 to 1986. Maher served as President (1997-88) and Treasurer (1991-94) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), and President (1987-89) and Secretary-Treasurer (1981-85) of the Midwest Archives Conference. He is Chair/Président of the International Council on Archives’ Section on the Archives of Universities and Research Institutions (ICA/SUV). As the author of one book and over 20 articles, he is a regular speaker on university archival administration, archives and history, and copyright law. He has taught over 500 students in the SAA’s workshop on Copyright for Archivists since 2000. Maher received a bachelor’s degree from Case Western Reserve University, a master of arts in history from Washington University, and a master’s in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kevin Smith joined Duke University in 2006 as the University’s first Scholarly Communications Officer. His principal role is to teach and advise faculty, administrators, and students about copyright, intellectual property licensing, and scholarly publishing. Before moving to Duke, he served as the Director of the Pilgrim Library at Defiance College in Ohio, where he also taught Constitutional Law. He is admitted to the bar in Ohio and North Carolina.
Smith serves on the Intellectual Property Board and the Provost’s Digital Futures Task Force at Duke, as well as on the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Scholarly Communications Committee and the faculty of the Association of Research Libraries’ Institute on Scholarly Communications. He has written several articles on copyright issues in higher education, and maintains a highly regarded blog on scholarly communications (http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/) that discusses copyright and publication in academia. He is a frequent speaker on those topics.
Smith began his academic career with graduate studies in theology at Yale University and the University of Chicago, and then decided to move into library work. He holds a master’s of library science from Kent State University and has worked as an academic librarian in both liberal arts colleges and specialized theological libraries. His strong interest in copyright law began in library school and he received a law degree from Capital University in 2005.
Hope O'Keeffe has been Associate General Counsel of the Library of Congress since November 2006, supervising all collections matters including copyright, intellectual property, social media, web archiving, and increasing digital access to library collections. Prior to joining the library she worked at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in the Office of General Counsel and in the Office of National Initiatives. Before NEA O’Keeffe worked as a litigator at Arnold & Porter and a union lawyer at Bredhoff & Kaiser. She clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. She attended Amherst College and the George Washington University Law School. She has been active online for many years, including being on the team that developed and wrote the National Endowment for the Arts' first website in 1995. She Tweets book reviews as @lentigogirl.
Karen Adams is the Director of Libraries of the University of Manitoba. Prior to this appointment in 2008, she was Director of Library Services and Information Resources for the University of Alberta Libraries, serving as chief operating officer of the library system from 1998 to 2008. In addition, Adams served as the Executive Director of the Ottawa-based Canadian Library Association, a national organization representing the interests of librarians and libraries of all types, for seven years. Her research interest continues to be information policy, with particular emphasis on copyright, and she is co-editor with Dr. William Birdsall of Understanding Telecommunications and Public Guide: A Guide for Libraries (1998) and Access to Information in a Digital World (2004). In a career that also includes teaching and consulting, Karen has been Saskatchewan Provincial Librarian (1984-1990) and Director of Public Library Services, Government of Manitoba (1980-1984).
Adams served on the advisory board of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada’s advisory committee on copyright, and the American Library Association’s (ALA) Presidential Task Force on Library Education. She was the Canadian representative on the ALA Committee on Accreditation from 2004 to 2008. Adams received her bachelor of arts with honors in English Literature from the University of Manitoba, and her master’s in library science from the University of Western Ontario.
Pam Bjornson is Director General of the NRC, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI). NRC-CISTI provides high value information and services in the areas of science, technology, and health. She has over 25 years of management experience, including nine years as Executive Director of Canadiana.org, a not-for-profit organization established by the major Canadian university libraries and the National Library of Canada to preserve Canada's printed heritage and make the resulting collection accessible to research libraries in Canada and around the world.
Throughout her career, Bjornson has built strategic partnerships and collaborations with private sector organizations, academia, and government departments and agencies. She has held numerous board and committee roles with national and international organizations. She is currently founding Chair of the Canadian Research Data Strategy Working Group (see www.data-donnees.gc.ca), a national multi-disciplinary collaborative effort to address the challenges and issues surrounding the access to and preservation of data arising from Canadian research. She is also a member of the ICSTI Executive Board, Deputy Chair of the WorldWideScience Alliance and Vice President of the international DataCite consortium. Bjornson has a master of business administration from the University of Ottawa.
Prudence S. Adler is the Associate Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries. Her responsibilities include federal relations with a focus on information policies, intellectual property rights, telecommunications, issues relating to access to government information, and project management for the ARL GIS Literacy Project. Prior to joining ARL in 1989, Adler was Assistant Project Director, Communications and Information Technologies Program, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where she worked on studies relating to government information, networking and supercomputer issues, and information technologies and education. She has participated in several advisory councils including the Depository Library Council, the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive Advisory Committee, the Board of Directors of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, the National Research Council's Steering Committee on Geolibraries and the Licensing Geographic Data and Services Committee, and the American University, Washington College of Law, Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic. Adler holds a master’s in library science and master of arts in American history from the Catholic University of America and a bachelor of arts in history from George Washington University.
Carole Moore has served as Chief Librarian at the University of Toronto since 1986. Her professional interests include an active involvement in using digital methods to preserve and disseminate our intellectual heritage. She is currently involved in digitization projects, such as the CFI funded Synergies initiative and Canadiana.org, to make the resources of the University of Toronto more easily and widely accessible. Moore has also served as Associate Librarian Technical Services, Head of Cataloguing and Head of Reference Departments at the University of Toronto, and prior to that, as a reference librarian at Columbia University. She has served as President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and on the Boards of the Library and Archives Canada, Association of Research Libraries, and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. She is currently a member of the boards of the University of Toronto Press, Canadiana.org, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. She received an AB from Stanford University and an MS from Columbia University.
Jeffrey L. Horrell has served as the Dean of Libraries and Librarian of the College at Dartmouth College since 2005. Prior to this appointment, he was the Associate Librarian of Harvard College for Collections beginning in 1998. In this role he was responsible for the administration of the development and management of the collections, including intellectual and physical access to library resources. He also was the Librarian of the Fine Arts Library, where he was responsible for four divisions: Book Collections, the Visual Collection, the Rubel Asiatic Research Collection and the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Art and Architecture, and the Acting Librarian at Harvard's Houghton Library. Horrell served as the Librarian of Dartmouth College’s Sherman Art Library from 1981 to 1986.
Horrell received a master of arts in library science and master of art in the history of art from the University of Michigan. He also holds a master of philosophy and Ph.D. from Syracuse University, where he studied the history of photography.
Richard Brown began his tenure as director of the Georgetown University Press in 2001. He is also serving as the current President of Association of American University Presses (AAUP), having also served on the Board of Directors since 2007. The Georgetown University Press was founded in 1964, and has been a member of the AAUP since 1986. Under his leadership, the Press has strengthened its reputation in its core subject areas, including languages and linguistics, international affairs, public policy, and religion.
Brown began his work in publishing as an editor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, a research institute studying international affairs and the presidency. He then spent nine years in religion publishing, first as an editor at Pilgrim Press and then as director of Westminster John Knox Press. He received a bachelor’s degree in English from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master’s in theological studies from Emory University, a master’s in business administration from the University of Louisville, and a PhD in religious studies from the University of Virginia.
Martha Whitehead was appointed University Librarian at Queen’s University in July 2010, for a three-year interim term. She was appointed Associate University Librarian at Queen's in 2004. From 1985 to 2004 she worked at the University of British Columbia Library in positions of increasing responsibility spanning information and learning technologies and academic services. In 2003, Whitehead spent half the year in Australia, working with the TeLaRs (Teaching, Learning and Research Services) division of the University of Melbourne. She was a fellow in the second cohort of ARL's Research Library Leadership Fellows program from 2007 to 2008.
Whitehead is on the Board of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). She was the Chair of CRKN's Negotiations Resource Team from 2008-2011, and is currently a member of the Board's Executive Committee. From 2004-2010 she was actively involved with the Ontario Scholars Portal, as a member of the Operations and Development committee and chair of the Public Services Advisory Group. In British Columbia, Whitehead held positions in the British Columbia Library Association and served on the Education Advisory Committee of the Vancouver Foundation. She is currently serving on the SPARC Steering Committee as representative of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, from 2011-2013.
H. Thomas 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, 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 $203.5 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 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 a distinguished 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. 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 presently serves as Vice President/President-Elect of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).