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.
Charles J. Henry is President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. He serves on the advisory board of Stanford University Libraries and on the boards of NITLE and the Center for Research Libraries. Previously, Henry was Vice Provost and University Librarian at Rice University. He has a PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University.
Ed Van Gemert is the Deputy Director and the Associate Director for Public Services providing leadership for a system of sixteen libraries for the General Library System at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He participates on key academic, technology, budget, and policy groups at the University. Van Gemert serves on national and state professional committees and is an active member of the Association of Research Libraries, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and the Council of Wisconsin Libraries. He serves as the chair of the Strategic Advisory Board of the HathiTrust. His professional study and research is in the areas of organizational management and digital library development. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master of Arts in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive, has been working to provide universal access to all knowledge for more than twenty-five years. Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989, Kahle invented the Internet's first publishing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) system and in 1989 founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet, a tool that catalogs the Web, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999.
Kahle earned a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with W. Daniel Hillis and Marvin Minsky. In 1983, Kahle helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer-maker, serving there as a lead engineer for six years. He serves on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the European Archive, the Television Archive, and the Internet Archive.
Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson has served as the Dean of University Libraries at the University of Washington since 2001. Prior to being selected Dean she was, since 1992, the Associate Director of Libraries for Research and Instructional Services. Previously, she was Head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Wilson has held numerous leadership positions in the American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries, including member of ALA Council and ACRL President. She has been a member of the OCLC Board of Trustees since 2000, chairing the Board from 2004–2007. She currently is chair of the Orbis Cascade Alliance and a member of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Board. She has served on the Association of Research Libraries Board and the Digital Library Federation Executive Committee. She is a past Chair of the Greater Western Library Alliance.
Wilson presents and publishes widely on the topics of teaching and learning in libraries; assessment and evaluation; digital library services; global research libraries; strategic frameworks for libraries; and educational and cross-sector collaborations. She is the recipient of the Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award, the Margaret E. Monroe Award, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from University of Illinois’ Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. With her UWired colleagues, she received the inaugural EDUCAUSE Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning. Her library was selected as the 2004 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award recipient. She holds an MLS from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA from Northwestern University.
Paul N. Courant is University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Economics and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan. From 2002-2005 he served as Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, the chief academic officer and the chief budget officer of the University. He has also served as the Associate Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, Chair of the Department of Economics, and Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (which is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy). In 1979 and 1980 he was a Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers.
Courant has authored half a dozen books, and over 70 papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy, including tax policy, state and local economic development, gender differences in pay, housing, radon and public health, relationships between economic growth and environmental policy, and university budgeting systems. More recently, his academic work has considered the economics of universities, the economics of libraries and archives, and the effects of new information technologies and other disruptions on scholarship, scholarly publication, and academic libraries. Courant holds a BA in History from Swarthmore College (1968), an MA in Economics from Princeton University (1973), and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University (1974).
Sharon E. Farb is Associate University Librarian for Collection Management and Scholarly Communication at UCLA. She holds a JD and PhD and her research and professional interests focus on key policy issues affecting libraries, archives and cultural memory institutions including copyright, privacy, and intellectual freedom.
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), the PRO-IP 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 has also represented clients in connection to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, and other international agreements.
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 books Interfaces on Trial and Interfaces on Trial 2.0, and over 100 articles.
Band received a BA, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1982 from Harvard College, and a JD from Yale Law School in 1985. From 1985 to 2005, he worked at the Washington, DC, office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, including thirteen years as a partner. He established his own law firm in May 2005.
Mary M. Case is University Librarian and Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Case oversees operations of the Richard J. Daley Library and Library of the Health Sciences and its regional sites in Peoria, Rockford, and Urbana. The Library has about 150 staff, 2.6 million volumes, 55,000 current journals, and special collections focused on the social, political, and cultural history of Chicago. Prior to joining UIC in July 2004, Case was Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in Washington, DC. Before ARL, Case was Director of Program Review at Northwestern University in the Office of the Vice President for Administration and Planning. Prior to that, she worked in serials and acquisitions at the Northwestern University Library. Case is former President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (a division of the American Library Association) and a member and former chair of the Board of Directors of CARLI, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois.
R. Michael Tanner joined the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer in January 2011. He previously was Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) for almost nine years, following a 30-year long career at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. At UIC, he was in charge of 14 academic colleges and the library and had principal responsibility for the budget. He led academic planning and spearheaded major initiatives in interdisciplinary areas, notably a successful NIH Clinical and Translational Science award, and in diversity with an NSF ADVANCE award. At UCSC, he was chair of the department of computer and information sciences, acting dean of natural sciences, before becoming academic vice chancellor. He was academic and executive vice chancellor for nine years, serving as the campus’s chief operating officer. In 2000, Tanner was named interim director for the University of California Silicon Valley Center, where he was responsible for planning a satellite campus for 2,000 students at the NASA Research Park in the NASA Ames Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
His principal research interests have been in coding and information theory, and he is recognized as the founder of the field of “codes on graphs,” a theoretical framework for designing coding systems that correct errors introduced in the transmission of digital messages. He holds four patents and is a fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Tanner’s other interests include computer simulation models, educational uses of information technology, intellectual property, and issues of sustainability and energy consumption. In 2003, he chaired a University of Illinois utility committee to study energy production, procurement and consumption. He co-chaired a University Energy Task Force, which authored the current University policy on energy conservation.
As a noted advocate for academic needs and faculty rights in scholarly communication, Tanner was the principal author of the 1999 report of the University-wide Task Force on Copyright at the University of California, a featured speaker at the 2004 CIC Summit on Scholarly Communication, and the 2005 UIC Nakata Lecturer. His 2007 “Copyrights and the Paradox of Scholarly Publishing” can be found on the CIC website (http://www.cic.net/Home/Reports.aspx), along with a CIC Author’s Copyright Contract Addendum. Tanner has been an organizer, moderator, and panelist for NASULGC/APLU national meeting sessions concerning scholarly communication in the digital age, and he is a member of the Advisory Board for the NIH’s PubMed Central.
Ann J. Wolpert oversees MIT’s distributed library system and MIT Press. She also has oversight of Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation. Prior to joining MIT, Wolpert was executive director of library and information services at the Harvard Business School. Her experience previous to Harvard included management of the Information Center of Arthur D. Little, Inc., an international management and consulting firm, where she also worked on various consulting assignments. More recent consulting assignments have taken her to the University of New Mexico, Cornell University and Adelphi University in New York, the campuses of INCAE in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, the League of European Research Libraries in Amsterdam, the National Library of China, and the Malaysia University of Science and Technology.
Wolpert is the chair of the Association of Research Libraries' Reshaping Scholarly Communication Steering Committee. She serves on the board of directors of the Boston Library Consortium. She served as president of the Association of Research Libraries in 2005 and also served on the steering committees of the Coalition for Networked Information and the Digital Library Federation. Wolpert serves on the Journal of Library Administration's editorial board, and she is a publications advisor to the National Science Foundation and the Massachusetts Medical Society. A frequent speaker and writer, she has recently contributed papers on topics such as library service to remote library users, intellectual property management in a digital environment, and open access and the future of research libraries in the digital age.
Wolpert received a BA from Boston University and an MLS from Simmons College, where she is an Honorary Trustee. In 1998, she was elected to the National Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education of the American Council on Education.
H. Carton Rogers is Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania. 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 Steering 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. He also served in an interim capacity as Director of Special Collections, Director of Public Services, and Director of Collection Development and Management.
Tyler Walters was appointed Dean of University Libraries at Virginia Tech in 2010. He was a 2008–2010 Fellow in the Association of Research Libraries’ Research Libraries Leadership Fellows program. Walters serves on many professional bodies including the Steering Committee for the Coalition of Networked Information (CNI), elected member and facilitator of the Coordinating Committee for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (Library of Congress), Steering Committee for the International Conference on Open Repositories, Program Committee of the International Digital Curation Conference, Editorial Board of the International Journal of Digital Curation, and the Advisory Board for the Digital Information Management program, University of Arizona. He has taught graduate LIS courses for Arizona and for San Jose State University. Walters is a founding Board member of the Educopia Institute, the management organization for the MetaArchive Cooperative, and serves on the MetaArchive’s Steering Committee. He is the co-author of the 2011 ARL report, “New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation.” Walters is currently a PhD candidate in Managerial Leadership for the Information Professions, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. His research focuses on issues of authentic leadership, organizational change, and trust development as applied to new multi-institutional and international collaborative organizations involving libraries and archives.