Association of Research Libraries (ARL®)

October 10–11, 2012
Washington, DC
Twitter hashtag: #ARL12DC

Joint Task Force on Services to the Print Disabled

Convener

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 in Chicago and the Library of the Health Sciences locations in Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, and Urbana, Illinois. Prior to joining UIC in July 2004, Case was Director of ARL’s Office of Scholarly Communication. At ARL, Case was responsible for guiding the activities of the Association related to the production, dissemination, use, and preservation of scholarly information and she 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.

Case is currently the Chair of the Publishing Review Task Group of the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) (a division of the American Library Association); serves on the ARL Public Policies Steering Committee; 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.

Speakers

Cynthia Archer joined York University as University Librarian and ARL in 2001. She has been a passionate advocate for the creation of the 21st Century research library. Cynthia has been an active participant in the provincial, national and North American research library communities, serving as Chair of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), President of the Ontario Library Association, as Chair of the Scholarly Communications Committee and E-Learning Working Group for the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), and contributed to several ARL committees including the current group revising collection measures. In these varied roles she demonstrated leadership in the dramatic growth of Scholars Portal, Ontario’s digital library, initiated the creation of Canada’s first online, open access, library research journal: Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research and was instrumental in the establishment of the W. P. Scott Chair in E-Librarianship, the first of its kind in Canada.

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 (master’s 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 ARL Board of Directors, 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 Libraries Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Baker has also served on a wide range of American Library Association committees.

In 2010, John T. Harwood became Associate Vice Provost for Information Technology Services at Pennsylvania State University, where he had previously served as Senior Director of Teaching and Learning with Technology since 1998. In his current role, Harwood focuses on strategic planning and the assessment of information technology. He is Past Chair of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Learning Technologies Initiative, as well as Penn State's e-Education Council, a group that encourages and supports innovative uses of technology in teaching and learning. He has served on the boards of several national or industry groups, including the National Information Standards Organization, the National Center for Academic Transformation, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, Adobe, and Blackboard.

With a doctorate in English from the University of Nebraska, Harwood has been a faculty member and administrator at Penn State since 1980, and is the author or editor of three scholarly books and numerous articles. During the 30 years he has spent at Penn State, Harwood has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses for the Department of English and the College of Information Sciences and Technology, and has served on more than 30 doctoral committees. He also has received grants to redesign high-enrollment courses and to develop course materials that support cultural diversity from the Pew Learning and Technology Program, the Mellon Foundation, the AT&T Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In 2010, Nancy E. Weiss serves as General Counsel of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). In this capacity, she advises the Director, the National Museum and Library Services Board, and agency officials on the legal aspects of cultural activity, public-private partnerships, grant-making, and the full range of legal issues involved in managing a federal agency. Nancy has represented the United States Government on delegations to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Organization of American States (OAS), and international conferences relating to Holocaust-Era Assets.

Prior to joining IMLS, Weiss served as Deputy General Counsel of the NEH, where she also provided counsel to the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program and represented the agency on the National Archives Trust Fund Board. She earlier practiced litigation and media law at Williams and Connelly in Washington DC, held a legal research fellowship in New Delhi, India, and completed a federal judicial clerkship with the Hon. William W. Schwarzer (N.D. California and Director of the Federal Judicial Center). Weiss graduated with honors from the University of Michigan Law School, and phi beta kappa with a degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to attending law school, she directed a student retention program at the University of Pennsylvania and managed Philadelphia's Shubert Theatre.

21st-Century Scholar and Researcher Services

Convener

Harriette Hemmasi joined Brown University in the fall of 2005 as the Joukowsky Family University Librarian. As University Librarian, Hemmasi oversees the five libraries in Brown University’s library system and provides leadership in supporting the university’s Plan for Academic Enrichment. Hemmasi is a strong proponent of integrating digital library activities into the teaching, learning, and research environment. She has worked to build bridges between digital library initiatives and the broader set of campus technologies to establish the library and its staff as active partners in the teaching, learning, and research processes.

Hemmasi previously was Executive Associate Dean of Libraries at Indiana University. She also served as Interim Associate University Librarian for Technical and Automated Services at Rutgers University (1998–2000) and Music Librarian at Rutgers (1989–1998). Hemmasi received her master’s in library and information science from the University of California, Berkeley, a master’s in music from Indiana University, and a bachelor’s in music from Baylor University. She lived in Iran and taught music at Shiraz University from 1971 to 1980.

Speakers

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication, Modern Language Association, and Professor of Media Studies (on leave), Pomona College. She is author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, published in 2011 by NYU Press and previously made available for open peer review online (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence), and of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press. She is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org), and has published in journals including the Journal of Scholarly Publishing, the Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, and Cinema Journal.

Myron P. Gutmann is Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with responsibility for NSF’s Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. He is also Professor of History and Information and Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining NSF, he was Director of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Gutmann has broad interests in interdisciplinary historical research, especially health, population, economy, and the environment. As Director of ICPSR, he was a leader in the archiving and dissemination of electronic research materials related to society, population, and health, with a special interest in the protection of respondent confidentiality. He has written or edited four books and more than 70 articles and chapters. Gutmann has served on a number of national and international advisory committees and editorial boards.

John Unsworth is the Vice Provost for Library and Technology Services and Chief Information Officer at Brandeis University. Unsworth came to this post in February 2012 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he had been Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS). At Illinois, in addition to being a Professor in GSLIS, Unsworth also held appointments in the department of English and on the library faculty and served as Director of the Illinois Informatics Institute, a campus-wide organization that serves to coordinate and encourage informatics-related education and research. During the decade before coming to Illinois, he served as the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) and as a faculty member in the English Department at the University of Virginia. For his work at IATH, he received the 2005 Richard W. Lyman Award from the National Humanities Center.

Unsworth chaired the national commission that produced Our Cultural Commonwealth, the 2006 report on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Science, on behalf of the American Council of Learned Societies. He has also published widely on the topic of electronic scholarship, as well as co-directing one of nine national partnerships in the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program, and securing grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Getty Grant Program, IBM, Sun, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and others. He attended Princeton University and Amherst College as an undergraduate, graduating from Amherst in 1981. He received a master's degree in English from Boston University in 1982 and a PhD in English from the University of Virginia in 1988.

Breakfast Briefings

BioOne's Open-Access Journal

Speaker

Susi Skomal has been Executive Director and COO of BioOne since 2005. With investment from the ARL community, BioOne was launched in 2001 as an innovative collaboration of scientific societies, libraries, academe, and the private sector to provide cost-effective access to high-quality biological, ecological, and environmental science research. Prior to BioOne, Skomal served for six years as Director of Publications for the American Anthropological Association. During that time, she helped guide the publications program towards the electronic future. Trained as an anthropologist with specialties in archaeology and linguistics, Skomal has a healthy respect for the evolutionary force of natural selection—particularly helpful as the scholarly community undergoes its own transformation in the electronic environment.

Ithaka S+R Digital Collections Sustainability Project

Speaker

As Program Director, Sustainability and Scholarly Communications, Nancy L. Maron leads Ithaka S+R’s program in sustainability, developing research, tools, and training to assist those responsible for funding, leading, or otherwise supporting digital resources in higher education and the cultural sector. This research takes an international perspective and focuses closely on uncovering strategies and the business models that can support them.

Prior to joining Ithaka S+R, Maron developed sales and marketing expertise while working for more than a decade in the book publishing industry, holding positions at Harry N. Abrams, Macmillan Library Reference, and the Perseus Books Group, where she was Director of Academic and Library Marketing. As Senior Marketing Manager for the Law Division of Oxford University Press, she was responsible for research, pricing strategies, and the launch of new online products.

Maron holds a bachelor of arts in humanities from Yale University, a master of arts in French studies from New York University, and she attended L’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris in the Certificat d’Études Politiques program. As a candidate for the doctor of philosophy in history at NYU, she researched cultural policy and the impact of new methods of cultural diffusion in France during the interwar years.

Presentations from Research Library Leadership Fellows' Research Projects

Convener

William D. Walker is Dean and University Librarian at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He currently serves as Chair of the University of Miami’s Academic Computing Advisory Committee. In 2006, he chaired the ARL Task Force on Transformative Library Roles in Teaching and Learning, and he currently is a member of the ARL Committee on Diversity and Leadership. In 2011, he hosted a Research Library Leadership Fellows Institute on “The Politics of Technology.”

Prior to his arrival at the University of Miami in 2003, Walker was Senior Vice President and the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Library’s Research Libraries.

Data Governance in the Scholarly Communication System

Speakers

Geneva Henry is the Executive Director of Rice University’s Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS, http://cds.rice.edu/). She joined Rice in 2000 to start the university’s digital library initiative, which has grown to include many projects, both grant funded and internally sponsored. The CDS is also home to the Digital Media Center, providing multimedia equipment, services, and training to the campus to support the creation of rich media projects and scholarship. In 2006, Henry was a distinguished fellow with the Digital Library Federation, working with the Abstract Services Framework working group to develop a framework of digital library services. From March 2002 through June 2005, she also served as the Executive Director for the Connexions project (http://cnx.org/), helping to shape and launch the project. She has served as principal investigator (PI) or co–PI for several grant-funded digital library projects and has been a reviewer for the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Council on Library and Information Resources for competitive grant programs. She is active in various professional organizations and conferences related to digital libraries and serves as a board member for several organizations and projects, including CLOCKSS, the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC), and the European Union’s DL.org project.

Prior to joining Rice, Henry was a Senior I/T Architect and Program Manager with IBM, where she was involved in several complex systems programs for government agencies, universities, and museums worldwide. Her career has included applied research in artificial intelligence (expert systems and natural language processing), text search, data modeling, complex systems, and digital libraries at IBM, TRW, and the RAND Corporation. Henry received a BS in computer science from California State University, Los Angeles, an MA in political science from the University of Washington, and a BA in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Joy Kirchner is the Librarian for Collections, Licensing, and Digital Scholarship at the University of British Columbia. Her role involves coordinating scholarly communications activities for the university and negotiating licenses for university access to digital content. Kirchner is a member of the Provost’s campus-wide Scholarly Communications Steering Committee; is a faculty member with the ARL-ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication; assists with the coordination and program development of ACRL’s Scholarly Communications 101 Road Show program, where she is also a presenter; and is a member of the ACRL Scholarly Communications Committee. Kirchner serves on contract negotiations teams for the Electronic Health Library of British Columbia, a consortium serving BC’s health authorities and academic institutions, and for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, a consortium serving 72 academic institutions across Canada. Kirchner sits on a number of publishing advisory boards and presents widely on new models of scholarship, author rights, copyright, and open access. She holds a BA and an MLIS from the University of British Columbia.

Ann Campion Riley is the Associate Director for Access, Collections, and Technical Services at the University of Missouri–Columbia. Riley supervises circulation, interlibrary loan, cataloging, metadata services, acquisitions, collection development, preservation, and physical processing, as well as coordinating the institutional repository, MOspace. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of ACRL and has been active in local, state, and national library associations. She is a Past-President of the Missouri Library Association and a writer and speaker on assessment and organizational culture in higher education. Her teaching experience includes writing courses, first-year seminars, women in literature, and graduate-level cataloging courses. She was formerly Director for Technical and Access Services at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Previously she was Library Director at Saint Louis Community College, Meramec, in suburban Saint Louis County, Missouri, where she learned network administration, was the first campus webmaster, and served twice as an Acting Dean and one year as Chief Campus Academic Officer. Before that Riley served as Collection Development Librarian at Maryville University and the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and Catalog Librarian at New Mexico State University. She earned her AB in English with high distinction at the University of Illinois, where she also received her MS in library and information science. She has an MA in English from the University of Missouri and pursued a PhD in English at Saint Louis University.

MacKenzie Smith is the University Librarian at the University of California (UC), Davis, overseeing the library’s modernization to integrate digital resources and information technology that will serve the academic community of the 21st century. She has been an academic research librarian since 1985, specializing in information technology and digital knowledge management. Prior to joining UC Davis in 2012, she was the Associate Director for Technology and Research Director at the MIT Libraries, where she oversaw their technology strategy, operations, research, and development. Smith’s research focuses on the information technologies and their applications to research libraries, such as Semantic Web–based scholarly communication platforms and digital research data curation including long-term preservation and archiving. She was the Project Director for MIT’s collaboration with Hewlett-Packard to build DSpace, the open-source digital archive platform now in widespread use, and has led many other research projects that advanced the international digital library agenda. She is also a Research Fellow at the Creative Commons working on science and data governance policy, and was Special Consultant to ARL to design the E-Science Institute. Prior to MIT, Smith managed the Harvard University Library’s Digital Library Program and held IT positions at Harvard and the University of Chicago.

Data Mining Partnership for Library Operations

Speakers

Scott Britton joined the University of Miami Libraries in 2007 as the Director of Access, Information, and Research Services, a department that includes Education and Outreach, Access Services, the Information Commons, and Digital Media Services. Other areas of responsibility include copyright support, library assessment and facilities planning. He serves on the University Curriculum Committee and the Teaching, Learning & Technology Roundtable. Scott previously worked in the libraries of Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and Bowdoin College. Britton earned his MLS from Simmons College and his BA in history and studio art from Bowdoin College, and is a member of the Frye Institute class of 2005.

John Renaud is the Director of Collection Strategies and Scholarly Communication, University of Miami Libraries. Renaud joined the University of Miami Libraries in 2002 as Education and Psychology Librarian. While at the libraries, he has been the Electronic Resources Librarian, Assistant Director of Collection Development, and Head of Acquisitions. Renaud earned a BA in philosophy and political science from American University.

Renaud has worked in the field of education since 1996. His career path includes working in alternative programs for “at-risk” middle and high school students and teaching English and history at college preparatory schools. He earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Vermont and a master’s degree in library and information studies from the University of Rhode Island.

Luncheon with Program—Penn State Public Broadcasting's "Treasures of the Special Collections"

Convener

Anne R. Kenney was appointed the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University in 2008. After a fulfilling archivist role at the University of Missouri, she came to Cornell University Library in 1987. Her previous positions at Cornell include serving as Interim University Librarian; Senior 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 and research into digital preservation issues. She is also a Fellow and Past President of the Society of American Archivists, serves on the Social Science Research Council's Committee on Libraries and Archives of Cuba, and was on Portico’s Advisory Board. An author of three award-winning books and over 50 scholarly articles and reports, Kenney received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University, a master’s degree in history from the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and a master’s degree in library science from the University of Missouri–Columbia.

Speakers

Kristian Berg, Series Producer, Penn State Public Broadcasting, is an award-winning producer, writer, and director of non-fiction television and new media. His documentaries include The Dakota Conflict (PBS), Dakota Exile (PBS), and Greatest Trials: The Scottsboro Boys and The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann (Court TV). Berg also wrote and produced stories for the 2004 and 2005 seasons of Oregon Public Broadcasting’s hit prime-time PBS series History Detectives. For nine seasons he wrote, produced, and directed stories and specials for the Twin Cities Public Television’s Emmy award–winning PBS science series Newton's Apple. Berg has also produced stories for WGBH-TV’s prime-time PBS science series NOVA scienceNOW, the PBS children’s series ZOOM!, and the PBS children’s science series DragonflyTV. He has also developed and produced educational programming and materials with the National Science Foundation and Annenberg Media. Berg’s awards include a National Daytime Emmy Award nomination, a Gold Plaque from the Chicago Film Festival, three regional Emmy Awards, a Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Documentary, a CINE Golden Eagle, and an Ohio State Award.

Melanie Doebler, Director, Project Development and Public Service Media at Penn State Public Broadcasting, has over 25 years experience working in educational program planning, development, and evaluation in a variety of academic and field settings. She joined Penn State Public Broadcasting in 2004 to lead their Engaging Faculty initiative. During her tenure at Penn State Public Broadcasting, she has led the development of a Public Service Media Initiative that brings together robust academic research with the power of public media to impact public audiences. She has served as the Project Director for such projects as Liquid Assets: The Story of America’s Water Infrastructure, Telling Amy’s Story: Raising Awareness of Domestic Violence, and The Geospatial Revolution.

Prior to working with Penn State Outreach, Doebler worked with the Colleges of Health and Human Development, Education, Agricultural Sciences, and Arts and Architecture, leading and contributing to projects addressing such diverse issues as drug abuse prevention, educational assessment, rural issues, and adolescent development. She holds a BA in English from Bucknell University, a master’s degree in extension education from Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences, and a doctorate in counselor education from Penn State University.

Other Project Members

Elaine Brzycki, Manager, Project Development at Penn State Public Broadcasting, provides strategic direction to the development of large-scale public media projects that serve communities at the local, national, and international levels through public television documentaries, interactive media, and collaborative outreach partnerships. In addition, she oversees project management for a diverse portfolio of public engagement and education initiatives, and manages foundation and corporate relations for Penn State Public Broadcasting.

With over 25 years of experience, Brzycki worked previously at Tufts University, where she contributed to advancement efforts for the schools of medicine and liberal arts, and led a patrons-of-the-arts program, which secured funding for the university’s first purpose-built music and performance building. She holds a BA in 19th-century European cultural studies from Wellesley College, and a master’s in education from Harvard University.

Joe Myers is Creative Director at Penn State Public Broadcasting and has produced and directed such PBS documentaries as Telling Amy's Story (2011), A Road to Independence (2005), and The Grange Fair: An American Tradition (2003). Recounting a domestic homicide, Telling Amy's Story screened as an official selection of the Input 2011 Public Media Conference in South Korea. Myers is currently developing the international human rights issues series World on Trial and the race relations series You Can't Say That. His works have been honored with Mid-Atlantic Chapter National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Emmy awards, the Silver Screen Award from the US International Film and Video Festival, a CINE Golden Eagle, Telly Awards, and Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters awards for his short-form and commercial work. As an independent producer Myers has completed a body of award-winning documentary work in the areas of green building and environmental sustainability, as well as a broad portfolio of work for prominent non-profit and corporate clients.