Mary M. Case is University Librarian and Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Case oversees the operations of the Richard J. Daley Library and Library of the Health Sciences in Chicago, and the Library of the Health Sciences locations in Peoria, Rockford, and Urbana, Illinois. Prior to joining UIC in July 2004, Case was Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). At ARL, Case was responsible for guiding the activities of the Association related to the production, dissemination, use, and preservation of scholarly information and helped develop the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). 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. She is currently the Chair of the Publishing Review Task Group of the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (a division of the American Library Association [ALA]); serves on the Public Policies Committee of ARL; is a Board Liaison to the I-Share Users Group for the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI); serves on the Human Resources and Compensation Committee of the Center for Research Libraries; is a member of the Advisory Board for the Chicago State University Department of Library, Information, and Media Studies; and is the Steering Committee Chair for the Chicago Collections Consortium.
Peter Jaszi Professor in the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property in the Washington College of Law at American University, teaches domestic and international copyright law and law and literature. He directs the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and helped to establish the Program on Intellectual Property and Information Justice. From 2009 to 2010, Jaszi served as the Intellectual Property Scholar of the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College. From 2006 to 2007, he led an interdisciplinary research team, funded by the Ford Foundation, which investigated the connections between intellectual law and the traditional arts in Indonesia. He currently serves on the board of Independent Television Service, an important funder of documentary film projects. Since 2005, Jaszi has been working with Patricia Aufderheide of the American University’s Center for Social Media on projects designed to promote the understanding of fair use by documentary filmmakers and other creators. In 1994, Jaszi was a member of the Librarian of Congress’ Advisory Commission on Copyright Registration and Deposit, and in 1995 he was an organizer of the Digital Future Coalition. He is a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA, and a member of the editorial board of its journal. In 2007, he received ALA’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award, and in 2009 the Intellectual Property Section of the District of Columbia Bar honored him as the year’s Champion of Intellectual Property. Jaszi received his AB degree from Harvard University and JD from Harvard Law School.
Judith C. Russell is the Dean of Libraries at the University of Florida. She was formerly the Managing Director, Information Dissemination and Superintendent of Documents at the US Government Printing Office (GPO). Previously, she served as Deputy Director of the US 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 10 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.
Gary E. Strong has been UCLA University Librarian since September 2003. He previously served as the Director of the Queens Borough Public Library and as the State Librarian of California. In the latter post, Strong was a founder and member of the board of directors of the California State Library Foundation (CSLF) and is now a director emeritus of that body. While with the California Library, Strong served as the Chief Executive Officer of the California Library Services board and created the California Research Bureau for Public Policy. He has served as a visiting officer for the US State Department on a number of occasions, working in Eastern Europe and Russia, China, Israel, and Latin America. At Queens, he created the Center for International Public Librarianship. At UCLA he serves on the Council of University Librarians, the UC Press Board, the Information Technology Planning Board, and the Advisory Board on Privacy and Data Protection, as well as a number of campus-level policy groups. He has been president of a number of library organizations, including LAMA, COSLA, and the Oregon and Pacific Northwest Library Associations. In 1984, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Michigan, from which he earned a master of library science degree. He received a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Idaho and an honorary doctorate in humane letters. He was named 21st Century Librarian at Syracuse University and received the Knowledge Trust award in education.
Brandon Butler is the Director of Public Policy Initiatives at ARL. He has been at ARL since September 2009, and in that time has worked on issues ranging from network neutrality to the PATRIOT Act. In the copyright area, Butler has worked on the Google Books Settlement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, was a co-author of the 2010 ARL issue brief on streaming films for educational purposes, and was a co-facilitator of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries released in January 2012.
Before coming to ARL, Butler was an associate in the Media and Information Technologies practice group at the law firm Dow Lohnes PLLC, where he worked on copyright issues, trademark prosecution, and corporate transactions involving intellectual property. Butler graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, holds a master's in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, and earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Georgia.
James L. (Jim) Mullins, Dean of Libraries, Purdue University, and Chair, ARL E-Science Working Group, has over 38 years of library experience. He has been at Purdue since 2004; prior to that he was with MIT Libraries as Associate Director for Administration. Earlier, he held positions at Indiana University and Villanova University. Mullins received BA and MALS degrees from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Indiana University. As a published authority, Mullins has influenced and helped revise the practices and standards for college and university libraries nationally and internationally through ACRL, ALA, IATUL, and the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).
Robert (Bob) Byrd is Associate University Librarian for Collections and User Services at Duke University. His previous positions at Duke have included Director of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collection Library and Associate University Librarian for Collections Services. Byrd received an AB in History from Duke University summa cum laude, a Master of Art and Master of Philosophy in History from Yale University, and a Master in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He participated in the ARL Research Libraries Leadership Fellows program in 2004–2006. .
Deborah A. Carver has served as the Philip H. Knight Dean of Libraries at the University of Oregon (UO) since July 2002. From October 2004 to August 2005, she also served as the UO’s Interim Associate Vice President for Information Services.
Carver has held several elected and appointed positions within the professional community. She currently serves on the board of ARL and on the Executive Committee of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) as Treasurer. Carver has also served on several statewide initiatives. She was President of the Oregon Library Association from 1995 to 1996 and served on the State Library’s LSTA Advisory Council. She represented the state as an elected member of the ALA Council from 1998 to 2001.
A magna cum laude graduate in political science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Carver earned a master’s degree in library science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Annette Valenta is Professor, Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, College of Applied Health Sciences at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She was recruited by her alma mater in 1991 to develop UIC’s model curriculum in informatics: the first national federally funded graduate-level specialization in health informatics and information management, which included participating faculty from the Library of the Health Sciences at UIC. With funding through AHRQ, HHS, and DOD, Valenta’s research focuses on organizational issues surrounding health technology. She brings this sociotechnical research insight to her role as Chair of the Research Subcommittee of UICs Information Technology Governing Council, a campus-wide strategic committee. Valenta’s publications have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Academic Medicine, JALN: Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, Journal of Medical Systems, Journal of Healthcare Information Management, and the Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium..
Valenta received her Doctorate of Public Health, Masters of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Science from UIC. In 1998, she experienced online education firsthand by earning the Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning from The California State University, Hayward.
Patricia A. Steele, Dean of Libraries, University of Maryland, provides strategic direction and leadership to an organization committed to addressing the changing needs of the academic community. Since becoming Dean in September 2009, Steele has focused on increasing services and experiences for students, most visibly in the creation of the Terrapin Learning Commons, a technology-rich space to support student learning and collaboration in McKeldin Library. A comprehensive study of McKeldin Library, informed by ethnographic research and observations of how students use the building, began in Fall 2011. Prior to her appointment as Dean, Steele was Ruth Lilly University Dean of Libraries at Indiana University, where she served for more than 30 years in numerous leadership roles. At Indiana, Steele served as President of the Indiana Library Federation and Officer in the Digital Library Federation.
Steele serves on the executive board of Kuali OLE, a nationwide project funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create community-sourced software for library transactions; on the newly formed board of governors of the HathiTrust Digital Library; and as a representative to ARL. At the university, Steele is a member of the Council of Deans and on the executive board of USMAI.
James Hilton is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Virginia, where he is responsible for planning and coordinating academic and administrative information technology, voice communications, and network operations on a university-wide basis. He is an advocate of strong collaboration between academic and technology cultures in university environments. He is also a Professor in the Department of Psychology.
Prior to his current appointment, Hilton was the Associate Provost for Academic Information and Instructional Technology Affairs and a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan in the Institute for Social Research, and in the Psychology Department, where he served as the Chair of Undergraduate Studies between 1991 and 2000. He is a three-time recipient of the LS&A Excellence in Education award, has been named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor (1997–2006), and received the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award. He has published extensively in the areas of information technology policy, person perception, stereotypes, and the psychology of suspicion. Mr. Hilton received a BA in Psychology from the University of Texas and a PhD from the social psychology program at Princeton University.
Brenda L. Johnson 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, Johnson served as Interim Co-University Librarian of the University of Michigan Libraries. There, she held various roles for more than 20 years, distinguishing herself as Associate University Librarian for Public Services responsible for their 19 libraries, pioneering several new services to integrate librarians into the academic process and created programs to recognize innovation in teaching and learning. She received her MLS from Rutgers University and then worked there for the first five years of her career.
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 serves on ARL’s 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.
Marianne Gaunt, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, has served on the Rutgers Libraries faculty since 1979 in a variety of positions before becoming University Librarian in 1996. Her previous positions were at Brown University and E.I. DuPont de Nemours. Her professional interests have focused on library management and humanities computing, on which she has written and presented.
Gaunt has been active in ARL, having served as the Association’s President, chair of its Strategic Planning Committee, Scholarly Communications Committee, and Fair Use and Related Exemptions Working Group. She is currently Co-Chair of the Search Committee for ARL’s Executive Director. She has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), the Board of Trustees for LYRASIS, as President of the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Academic Libraries Consortium, Inc. (PALCI), and Chair of the Executive Committee of New Jersey's academic library consortium, VALE (the Virtual Academic Library Environment). She is also on the Executive Committee of the New Jersey Center for the Book. At Rutgers, she is currently chairing the President’s Committee on Community Engagement, serves as a member of the Press Council of Rutgers University Press, co-chairs the University’s Committee on Work and Family Issues, and co-chaired the University's Copyright Policy Review Committee. She is a frequent lecturer in Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information. Gaunt has her BA in French Language and Literature from Montclair State University and her MLS from Drexel University.
Susan Hildreth was appointed Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) by President Obama in January 2011. Prior to her appointment at IMLS, Hildreth served as the City Librarian of Seattle, managing the Seattle Public Library, including the world-renowned Central Library and 26 new and expanded branches. She was the State Librarian of California, managing a $70 million administrative budget supporting library and research services for the state government and funding and consultation for California libraries. And she served as the City Librarian of San Francisco, overseeing an annual operating budget of more than $58 million and a $130 million building program.
Hildreth was President of the Public Library Association and served on its board of directors. She was an elected member of the ALA Council, a long-time member of the California Library Association, serving both as its President and Treasurer. Hildreth graduated cum laude from Syracuse University and holds a master's degree in library science from the State University of New York at Albany and a master's degree in business from Rutgers University
Nancy L. Baker has been the University Librarian at the University of Iowa since August of 2000, after nearly nine years as the Director of Libraries at Washington State University and seven years as Associate Director for Public Services at the University of Washington. She is also an adjunct faculty member in Iowa's School of Library and Information Science. Baker earned a BA in English from the University of Connecticut and an AMLS (Masters in Library Science) from the University of Michigan. She also holds an MA degree in English from Binghamton University (SUNY). Baker is the co-author of A Research Guide for Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature, published by the Modern Language Association of America, now in its 5th edition. She has served on the Board of Directors of the ARL, is the current Chair of ARL's Diversity and Leadership Committee, and has been an active member of a variety of ARL committees. A former chair of the University Library Section of Association of College and Research Libraries, Baker has also served on a wide range of ALA committees.
Mark A. Puente is the Director of Diversity and Leadership Programs at ARL, a position he’s held since March 2009. Previously, he was the Coordinator of Digital Projects and Special/Gift Collections for the Music and Performing Arts Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Resident/Music Librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. While pursuing his master of library and information science degree (MLIS), Puente worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Arizona’s Fine Arts Library and as a staff member and intern at the Music Library at the University of North Texas.
At ARL, Puente directs all aspects of the Association’s minority recruitment programs and serves as the ARL staff liaison to the ARL Committee on Diversity and Leadership. In this capacity, he is actively engaged in developing and directing ARL’s Career Enhancement Program (CEP), the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) and the Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP). Puente also oversees ARL’s Research Library Leadership Fellows (RLLF) program.
Puente is a graduate of the Knowledge River Program at the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona. He earned a Master of Arts in Music (voice) from Stephen F. Austin State University and a Bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, TX. Prior to entering the library profession, Puente was an applied voice instructor in his hometown of San Antonio for 13 years and worked in opera administration in Texas and Arkansas.
Brian E. C. Schottlaender has served as the Audrey Geisel University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), since 1999. Prior to joining UCSD, he held positions at the California Digital Library, UCLA, the University of Arizona, and Indiana University. 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 almost 30 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, Schottlaender is an investigator on three extramurally funded projects with national significance, including Chronopolis, which was recently granted TRAC certification as a trusted digital repository. In 2010, Schottlaender was awarded the Melvil Dewey Medal by ALA in recognition of his “creative leadership of a high order.”
Parminder Raina is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. He specializes in the epidemiology of aging with emphasis on developing the interdisciplinary field of geroscience to understand the processes of aging from cell to society and was recently awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Geroscience. Raina holds the inaugural Raymond and Margaret Labarge Chair in Optimal Aging and is the lead principal investigator of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. He is the Director of the internationally recognized McMaster Evidenced-based Practice Center which is funded by the US based Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and CIHR funded McMaster Evidence Synthesis and Review Centre (MERSC). Raina holds several national and international grants and has published many peer-review reports and articles for national and international agencies, and in leading scientific journals. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Consortium on Health and Ageing Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States (CHANCES) project funded by the European Union to integrate cohorts on aging.
Charles Schweik is an Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation and Public Policy and Administration, and Associate Director of the National Center for Digital Government at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has just completed a five-year NSF funded study on Internet collaboration around open source software, and as a result, is the author of the forthcoming book entitled “Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software Commons” (2012, MIT Press). He has written a number of other articles related to open source and open content collaboration. Driven by his interest in the power of “openness” to spur innovation, Schweik is one of the faculty at UMass working with staff at UMass’ du Bois research library to innovate using open access resources for teaching.
Trevor Muñoz is Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research at the University of Maryland Libraries and an Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). He holds an MA in Digital Humanities from the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London and an MS in Library and Information Science from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He works on developing digital research projects and services at the intersection of digital humanities centers and libraries. Muñoz’s research interests include electronic publishing and the curation and preservation of digital humanities research data.
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, CNI, ARL, ALA, 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 currently serves on the executive board of PACHS, as President of PALCI, and on the Board of ARL as 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.
Jon E. Cawthorne has been as the Associate University Librarian for Public Services at Boston College (BC) Libraries since January 2011. Prior to his move to BC, Cawthorne was the Interim Dean of Library and Information Access at San Diego State University, and before that Associate Dean at San Diego State.
Cawthorne holds an MLS from the University of Maryland at College Park and a BA in English and Radio Communication from Evergreen State College. Prior to arriving at San Diego State, Cawthorne worked at the Detroit Public Library and in libraries at the University of Oregon, Ohio State University, and the Congressional Research Service within the Library of Congress. Interested in leadership development throughout his career, he attended the Snowbird Leadership Institute, the Frye Leadership Institute and programs from ALA's Emerging Leaders, ARL’s Leadership Career Development Program (LCDP), and is a current 2011–2012 ARL Research Library Leadership Program Fellow. He also attended the 2007 class of Senior Fellows at the University of California, Los Angeles. Within ALA, he served on the Spectrum Advisory Committee and chaired the Lippincott Award committee.
Vivian Lewis is the Associate University Librarian for Organizational Development at McMaster University. In this capacity she is responsible for strategic planning and high-level initiative management. In addition, she oversees assessment, budget, human resources, marketing and development.
Vivian holds a BA from the University of Western Ontario, an MA from York University and an MLS from the University of Toronto. She is a graduate of the Harvard Institute for Academic Librarians and a fellow of the Frye Leadership Institute. Lewis is a 2011-2012 ARL Research Library Leadership Program Fellow. Lewis is currently chair of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries' (CARL) Building Capacity Committee. Her current research interests include transformational change in academic libraries, the use of Balanced Scorecard as a planning and assessment tool, and core competency statements for librarians.
Xuemao Wang, a 2011–2012 ARL Research Library Leadership Program Fellow, has worked in the library and information field for over 30 years. As the Associate Vice Provost for the Emory University Libraries, he provides oversight and serves as deputy for the day-to-day operations of the libraries. He directly supervises the Libraries’ Administration Division, Content Division, and Services Division. Prior to joining Emory, he worked in the area of information technology and management for Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries, Metropolitan New York Library Council, and Queens Borough Public Library in New York. He also worked for a Chinese academic library for 10 years before coming to the US. He has a strong interest and background in library and information services management, information technology, and global librarianship. In addition to serving as chair of the IFLA Knowledge Management section, he has worked to strengthen ties between American and Chinese libraries. His educational background includes graduate degrees from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (MLS), University of South Carolina (MLIS), and Hofstra University (MBA), in addition to his BA from Wuhan University in China.
Carol A. Mandel is Dean of the Division of Libraries at New York University (NYU), which includes the Libraries, Campus Media Services, University Archives, and the NYU Press. 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 Past-President of ARL. She is past president of the Digital Library Federation and former chair of the ARL Steering Committee on Scholarly Communication. She is a member of the HathiTrust Governing Board, 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.
Mandel has been 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 ARL. She holds a BA in Art from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and masters degrees in Art History and in Library Service from Columbia University..
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 including the university libraries, the university archives and special collections, the Nickle Arts Museum, and the University of Calgary Press.
Hickerson came to the University of Calgary from Cornell University where he served as an archivist, technology innovator, and library administrator and, most recently, as Associate University Librarian for Information Technologies and Special Collections. He is the President of CARL, and a member of the board of directors for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. Hickerson is a Fellow and former President of the Society of American Archivists and was a member of the executive committee of the International Council on Archives. Hickerson serves on the ARL Transforming Research Libraries Steering Committee, the Transforming Special Collections in the Digital Age Working Group and the 21st-Century Research Library Collections Task Force.
Arnold Hirshon is the Associate Provost and University Librarian at Case Western Reserve University. Prior to his arrival at Case Western in 2010, he served as the Chief Strategist and Executive Consultant for LYRASIS, and for 10 years as Executive Director of NELINET (a library consortium). Hirshon has held positions including Vice Provost for Information Resources (Chief Information Officer) at Lehigh University and University Librarian at Wright State University. Hirshon also served as Associate Director of Libraries at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in library administrative posts at Duke University and Wayne State University.
Hirshon currently is an advisor for a Carnegie Foundation-funded project to develop new ways to employ technology to advance faculty research at major research universities of South Africa. In addition, since 2000, Hirshon has been a consultant for EIFL, an international organization that brings together technology and information for 48 developing countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia. Hirshon served as President of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, on the Executive Committee of Counter, and as the Vice-Chair of the OhioLINK Library Advisory Committee. He holds an MLS from Indiana University and an MPA from Wayne State University.
Diane Parr Walker was named Edward H. Arnold University Librarian at the University of Notre Dame in 2011. Directly prior to this appointment, Walker was a member of the University of Virginia library staff for 26 years, serving as Deputy University Librarian since 2003. During her tenure at Virginia, Walker was the university’s Music Librarian, Coordinator for Humanities and Social Sciences Branch Libraries, and Associate University Librarian for User Services.
Walker earned master’s degrees in musicology from the University of Iowa and in library and information science from the University of Illinois. She earned her bachelor’s degree in music literature from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. She served for five years as Music Cataloguer and Reference Librarian at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Walker is a Past President of the Music Library Association and has served as a member-at-large on the Board of Directors and as Treasurer of the association.
Lorraine J. Haricombe is Dean of the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries, which serves 25,000 students and 1,300 faculty. One of the founding members of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions, Haricombe is also the Provost's designate for open access implementation at KU. She is a Past Chair of the Greater Western Library Alliance Board of Directors, a current member of the Lyrasis Board, PubMed’s Central Advisory Committee, a member of ARL’s Reshaping Scholarly Communication Steering Committee, and a member of SPARC’s Steering Committee. Recently, Haricombe participated in the South African Research Library Consortium’s Executive Management Academy. Prior to joining KU in 2006, she was Dean of Libraries at Bowling Green State University. She holds doctoral and master’s degrees in library and information science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
Deanna Marcum, as ITHAKA S+R Managing Director, leads the research and consulting services that assist universities and colleges, libraries, publishers, and cultural institutions as they make the transition to the digital environment. She heads a staff of 10 program directors and analysts with wide-ranging expertise.
From 2003 to 2011, Marcum served as Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress. She managed 53 divisions and offices whose 1,600 employees 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. 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 2003.
Marcum was Director of Public Service and Collection Management at the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995, and prior to that Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at The Catholic University of America. She holds a doctor of philosophy in American Studies, a master’s degree in Library Science, and a bachelor’s degree in English. She was awarded a doctorate in humane letters by North Carolina State University in 2010, and received the Melvil Dewey Medal in June 2011, the highest award conferred by ALA.
Deborah Jakubs is the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs. Appointed to her position in 2005, Jakubs came to Duke in 1983 and has been active in area studies, international education and cooperative collection development. She previously served as the Librarian for Latin America and Iberia, the Head of the International and Area Studies Department and, most recently, Director of Collections Services for the Perkins system libraries. As a visiting program officer at ARL 1996–2002, she directed the Global Resources Program, a joint multi-institutional effort of ARL and the Association of American Universities (AAU) to expand access to international scholarly resources through cooperative structures and new technologies. She chairs the Area Studies Council of the Center for Research Libraries and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Program for Latin American Library and Archival Collections, Harvard University.
Jakubs is an Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Duke, and has served as the Director (1997–1999) and Associate Director (1995–1997, 2000–2002) of the University of North Carolina-Duke University Consortium in Latin American Studies. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an MLIS from the University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD in Latin American History from Stanford University.
Barbara I. Dewey is Dean, University Libraries and Scholarly Communications, at the Pennsylvania State University. She was Dean of Libraries, University of Tennessee, Knoxville from 2000 to 2010. Previously, she held several administrative positions at the University of Iowa Libraries including Interim University Librarian. Prior to her work at Iowa she held positions at Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science, Northwestern University Libraries, and Minnesota Valley Regional Library in Mankato, Minnesota. She is the author/editor of six books, and has published articles and presented papers on research library topics including digital libraries, technology, user education, fundraising, diversity, organizational change, and human resources. Her latest book, published by Chandos Press, Oxford, UK, is Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society.
She holds an MA in library science, a BA in sociology/anthropology from the University of Minnesota, and a Public Management Certificate from Indiana University.
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.
Wendy Pradt Lougee is the University Librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. ACRL 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 is the Vice President/President-Elect of ARL and Vice Chair of the Council on Library and Information Resources Board. She is a member of the Ithaka Research Advisory Committee, and Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership Board. Lougee has served on the Research Libraries Group Board of Directors, as President of the Digital Library Federation, and as Chair of the ARL E-Science Task Force. She 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).