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ABOUT SULAIR> SULAIR Advisory Council and SULAIR-related Committees

SULAIR Advisory Council 2010-2011 - Bios

Lynne Brindley has been the chief executive of The British Library since 2000. Since her appointment, Lynne has led a major strategic repositioning and modernization program to ensure that the BL continues to provide relevant services to users in the 21st century, and that the library is recognized for its contribution to research, innovation and culture.

Lynne came to the BL from the University of Leeds where she was Pro-Vice-Chancellor and University Librarian. She previously held positions as Librarian & Director of Information Services at the London School of Economics, Principal Consultant at KPMG, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Director of Information Services at Aston University. She spent the early part of her career at the British Library.

Lynne is also active in national and international bodies concerned with cultural, library and digital information strategy. She is a Visiting Professor at City and Leeds universities.  Her research and professional interests are in knowledge management, digital library developments, strategy and leadership.  She has received a number of honorary degrees, including from the universities of Oxford, Leeds, Sheffield, UCL and City University.  Lynne was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List 2008 for services to education.  Lynne is a member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council and also a member of SABIP (Strategic Advisory Board on IP) which provides independent advice to government on all aspects of IP. 



Michael Chang is a Managing Director of Mavent Partners, a middle market focused investment firm.  Formerly, Michael was Vice President at Bertram Capital, a growth equity and buyout-focused private equity firm investing out of a $350M first fund in private companies.

Previous to Bertram, Michael was a Senior Associate of Apax Partners' Tech & Telecom Group, focusing on technology investments in the areas of semiconductors, Internet applications, digital media, and information security.  Prior to joining Apax Partners, Michael was an associate at Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) and worked on later-stage technology and business service investments.  Before TCV, Michael worked at Lightspeed Venture Partners on early-stage technology investments in the areas of information security, enterprise software, and infrastructure software.  Prior to Lightspeed, Michael worked at Broadview International as a mergers and acquisitions analyst with clients in telecommunications hardware, telecommunications software, semiconductors, and wireless applications. 

Michael graduated from Stanford University with an MS in management science and engineering and a BS in electrical engineering.



Bruce J. Crawford chairs the Executive Council of the Stanford University Libraries Rondel Society. Bruce serves as Trustee, Council member, and Secretary of the Grolier Club of New York, America's oldest and best-known fellowship of men and women devoted to the promotion of all aspects of books and the book arts. A collector of English literature in first and early editions and manuscript, Bruce is the co-author of three books: The Extraordinary Life of Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens and Show Biz, and Mary Webb: Neglected Genius. Bruce graduated from Stanford University with Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Economics. For Bruce, supporting libraries, collection development, and the book arts lies at the remarkable intersection of meaning and pleasure.



Guerrino De Luca became chairman of the board for Logitech in January 2008, turning over his responsibilities as president and chief executive officer to Gerald. P. Quindlen. Mr. De Luca joined Logitech as president and chief executive officer in early 1998, and became a member of the board of directors a few months later. During his tenure as Logitech’s executive leader, the company posted nine consecutive years of record sales and profits as its annual revenue went from $400 million to more than $2.1 billion, and its operating profit grew from $16 million to more than $230 million.

In is role as chairman of the board, Mr. De Luca is focused on sustaining Logitech’s leadership as the world’s largest manufacturer of personal peripherals for the PC and other platforms that define the way people work, play and communicate in the digital world. He is also focused on ensuring that the core values and uniqueness of Logitech are preserved as the company continues to evolve and extend its role into the digital home; participating in defining the company’s long-term strategy; and leading the board of director’s supervision of the company’s operations.

A technology-industry veteran with thirty years of European, U.S., and international experience, Mr. De Luca has an extensive background in product strategy, marketing and management.

Prior to joining Logitech, Mr. De Luca served as executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Apple Computer, Inc. He was president of Claris Corporation, a U.S. personal computing software vendor, after having served in various marketing positions with Apple in the United States and Europe. He began his career at Olivetti in Ivrea, Italy.

Mr. De Luca holds a B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Rome, Italy



Victor Guerra is General Director of Information Technology for the Mexican Ministry of Health (Secretaría de Salud), where he promotes the use of information technology in order to improve health services.

Dr. Guerra was also General Director of Academic and Computing Services at Mexico’s Autonomous National University (UNAM) until August 2001. He was responsible for installing in Mexico the first Internet Service in 1989 and the first Supercomputer Center. He also developed the largest academic network in Latin America. Among the various assignments he held, it is important to mention that he is one of the main pillars of the Mexican School Net Program (RedEscolar de Informática Educativa) for the Ministry of Education, with the purpose of undertaking activities and contents to K-12 schools. Currently, more than 7,000 schools are participating in this program. In 2000, the UNAM´s portal won the Ibest 1st prize in the academic computing category for the Spanish speaking countries. He was also responsible for the 1997, 2000 and 2003 computer system and rapid count results of the federal elections in Mexico, the outcome being the first elected president of a different party in 70 years.

Starting his career at the University as assistant professor, he rose to professor in the School of Sciences, then full time researcher, member of the academic commissions, and coordinator of the computing master of UNAM’s Sciences and Humanities College, as well as academic secretary in the Sciences Research Coordination.

Under his lead, the Academic Computing Network of the University has developed into the most important digital network in Mexico. Dr. Guerra has authored multiple papers in the fields of mathematics and computing.

Dr. Guerra Ortiz obtained his bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1969 from UNAM, and his master’s degree at Rice University where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1974.



William A. Halter was elected the fourteenth Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas in November 2006.  He brings extensive experience in both the public and private sectors to the state office.  Halter has served as Chief Operating Officer of the Social Security program, as an economic adviser to the President and to the U.S. Senate, and as a management consultant for Fortune 500 companies. 

Mr. Halter was a senior advisor in the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President. He advised on a range of policy issues, reviewed and evaluated budgets and management practices of federal Cabinet departments, presented budget options to the President, and formulated Administration positions on domestic and international policy issues. He also coordinated the work of the President's Management Council, a group comprised of the Chief Operating Officers of the federal Cabinet departments. Prior to that, Mr. Halter served as an economist to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and as Chief Economist for the United States Senate Committee on Finance. He has also served in the private sector as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company specializing in strategic planning and improving organizational effectiveness for a variety of private sector clients.

Mr. Halter is a Trustee Emeritus of Stanford University, having chaired the Academic Policy Committee and serving on the Finance, Alumni and External Affairs, Land and Buildings, and Athletics Committees. He is also a member of Stanford's Humanities and Sciences Council. In addition, he is a member of the Advisory Board of Friends for Youth, a program that matches youth-in-need with adult mentors. Mr. Halter is a member of the Board of Directors of Akamai Technologies based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, InterMune based in San Francisco, California, Threshold Pharmaceuticals in San Francisco, California, webMethods based in Fairfax, Virginia and Xenogen based in Alameda, California.

Mr. Halter is a native of North Little Rock, Arkansas. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, he received an M. Phil. degree in economics in 1986 and received an A.B. degree with honors and distinction in economics and political science from Stanford University in 1983. In addition, he is a Marshall Scholar, a Harry S. Truman Scholar and a National Merit Scholar.



Charles Henry is currently Vice Provost and University Librarian at Rice University. He is in charge of the library, the digital library initiatives, data application centers, and academic information technology. Previously he was director of libraries at Vassar College and assistant director, Division of Humanities and History, at Columbia University. Dr. Henry has served on the Steering Committee for the Coalition for Networked Information, is past president of the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, is on the Advisory Committee for the new International University-Bremen, and is a member of the Steering Committee for the Digital Library Federation in Washington. He chairs the Committee on Computer Science and the Humanities, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academy of Engineering. In 2001, Henry accepted a six year appointment by Governor Perry to the Texas Online Authority. Henry received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and has published widely in the field of technology and higher education.



Walter B. Hewlett is the founder and director of the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford University, and he has been a consulting professor in the Stanford Music Department since 1995.  He is also a co-editor of Computing in Musicology and a contributor to Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes (MIT Press, 1997).

Since 1994, Hewlett has been chairman of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a private charitable foundation he helped found.  The Foundation supports groups working in education, the performing arts, population control, environmental protection, conflict resolution, family and community development, and U.S.-Latin American relations.  Hewlett is a trustee of the Packard Humanities Institute and serves on the boards of Vermont Telephone Company and Ibycus Corporation.  He retired from the board of Agilent Technologies in 2006.  At Harvard University, he has served as a member of the Board of Overseers and chair of the Committee to Visit Information Technology.  At Stanford, he serves on the Advisory Council of the School of Humanities and Sciences.

Hewlett received a B.A. in physics from Harvard University.  He also holds an M.S. in engineering science, an M.S. in operations research, and a D.M.A. in music, all from Stanford University.  In 1999, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.



James Higa is a Senior Director in the Office of the CEO at Apple Computer. His hair is decisively grayer after negotiating the landmark agreements with the major music labels to open the iTunes Music Store.  Whether it is helping to launch the Macintosh, a home networking protocol, iPhone, or Stanford on iTunes into the world, his career has been spent in the pursuit of thinking differently to make technology simple enough for the rest of us.



Susan M. Kornfield, J.D. has been an intellectual property attorney for 28 years. She handles transactional and litigation matters involving technology, emerging business models, entrepreneurship, competitive intelligence, conflicts of interest, and post-employment restrictions. Her clients include tech start ups, nonprofit museums, and global corporations. Ms. Kornfield is an adjunct professor at The University of Michigan Law School ("Advanced Copyright Practice") and at the UM Ross School of Business ("The Law of Marketing"). Ms. Kornfield has been an expert witness, mediator, and arbitrator in a variety of intellectual property disputes. She chairs her firm's Pro Bono Committee and serves on the firm's Executive Committee. She is admitted to practice before The U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Sixth and the Seventh Circuits, various U.S. District Courts, and the States of Illinois and Michigan. Prior to law school she worked at the University of Michigan in biomedical engineering and in policy analysis. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan and is a board member of the Humane Society of Huron Valley. Bodman LLP, 201 South Division, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104; (734) 930-2488; skornfield@bodmanllp.com.



Richard E. Luce is the Vice-Provost and Director of Libraries at Emory University. He is responsible for managing the Main (Robert W. Woodruff) Library, and libraries in Business, Chemistry, Music and Media, the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL) -- and coordinating university-wide library policy for the Health, Law, Theology, and Oxford College Libraries.

Prior to joining Emory, Mr. Luce was the Research Library director at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1991-2006). Known as an information technology pioneer and organizational innovator, he managed a world-class scientific research library. In 1999 he was a co-founder of the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self-archiving systems. In October 2003 he co-organized the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, and in 2004, the Brazilian Declaration on Open Access.  In 2005 he was awarded the Fellows' Prize for Leadership at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the first ever awarded to a nonscientist.

He holds numerous advisory and consultative positions supporting digital library development and scholarly communication. Rick is a member of the National Academies Committee on Assuring the Integrity of Research Data in an Era of E-Science, and an executive board member of CNI and the Digital Library Federation. He was the senior advisor to the Max Planck Society's Center for Information Management (2000-2006) and an executive board member of the National Information Standards Organization (1998-2004).

Prior to Los Alamos, Luce held positions as the first executive director of the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN), director of Colorado's Irving Library Network and assistant director of the Boulder Public Library in Colorado. He speaks extensively in the areas of digital libraries and scientific communication, quality and change management, and strategic planning.



Deanna Marcum was appointed Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress on August 11, 2003. In this capacity she manages 53 divisions and offices whose 2,400 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. 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, Dr. 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.  CLIR’s mission is to identify the critical issues that affect the welfare and prospects of libraries and archives and the constituencies they serve, convene individuals and organizations in the best position to engage these issues and respond to them, and encourage institutions to work collaboratively to achieve and manage change.

Dr. Marcum served as Director of Public Service and Collection Management at the Library of Congress from 1993-95. Before that she was the Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at The Catholic University of America. From 1980 to 1989, she was first a program officer and then vice president of the Council on Library Resources.

Dr. Marcum holds a Ph.D. in American Studies, a master’s degree in Library Science, and a bachelor’s degree in English.



Anthony A. Newcomb is Professor of Music and Italian Studies Emeritus and Chair of the Senate Library Committee at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has also served as Chair of Art History and Music and as Dean of Arts and Humanities. Mr. Newcomb is an alumnus of Stanford, Berkeley (BA), and Princeton (PhD) and has taught at both Harvard and Berkeley. He has been Chair of the faculty of the College of Letters and Sciences at Berkeley, where he also received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992, was given the Gladyce Arata Terrill Chair in Music and Italian Studies in 2000 and the Berkeley Citation in 2005, and was elected to the Berkeley Fellows in 2007 and as an honorary lifetime member of the American Musicological Society in 2009. His fields of specialization are Italian music of 1500-1640, European music of 1800-1918, and philosophical aesthetics (music and meaning). He was one of two faculty members on the UC System wide Library Planning and Action Initiative and Chair of the "Blue Ribbon Committee" on the future of the UC Berkeley Library System. He is past editor of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and has received Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, NEH, ACLS, and UC Humanities Research Fellowships.



Elisabeth Niggemann has served as the Director General of the German National Library since 1999.  She holds a PhD in Biology, and has worked in academic libraries since 1987, when she became Head of the acquisition department at the German Central Library for Medicine in Cologne. In 1989 she became Head of the cataloging and subject indexing department at the University and State Library in Duesseldorf and she worked at the same time as a subject specialist. In 1994 she became the Director of the University and State Library in Duesseldorf. Between 1990 and 1995 she also gave lectures at the Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf in Information Science.

Dr. Niggemann is a member of the IFLA Standing Committee on National Libraries, a member of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries,  Chair of the Conference of European National Librarians, Chair of the European Digital Library Foundation, a member of the High Level Group on Digital Libraries of the European Commission, member of the OCLC Board of Trustees  and a member of the Library Advisory Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. She is an editor of the Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie and a member of the Advisory Board of Libri.



James O’Donnell is Professor of Classics and Provost at Georgetown University. O’Donnell came to Georgetown in 2002 from Penn, where he had taught since 1981 and served as Chief Information Officer since 1996, having previously taught at Bryn Mawr College, the Catholic University of America, and Cornell University. He holds degrees from Princeton and Yale, and studied for a time at University College, Dublin. His scholarly work has concentrated on the cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean world. He is author of many articles and several books, including a three-volume edition of commentary on the Confessions of Augustine (Oxford, 1992). An innovator in the use of networked computing for scholarly research and teaching, his book, Avatars of the Word:  From Papyrus to Cyberspace, was published by Harvard University Press in 1998. In 1999-2000, he chaired a National Research Council study of the Library of Congress whose results were published as LC21:  A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress (National Academies Press, 2001). He served as President of the American Philological Association for 2003 and is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. As Provost, he has published two books, Augustine: A New Biography (HarperCollins 2005) and The Ruin of the Roman Empire (HarperCollins 2008) and is working on a volume provisionally entitled Pagans. He is Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the American Council of Learned Societies.



Since 1996, Ann Okerson has been at Yale, following experience in academic library management, the commercial sector, and as senior program officer at the Association of Research Libraries.  In 1996, she organized the Northeast Research libraries consortium (NERL), a group of 27 large and 42 smaller libraries negotiating for electronic information and engaging in other cooperative activities.  She is one of the active, founding spirits of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC).  Activities include many projects, publications, advisory boards, and speaking engagements around the world, as well as professional awards.  She is a leader in licensing electronic scholarly resources, developing a model contract used by libraries and organizations everywhere.  She is an aggressive grant getter and project director, particularly for international partnerships in collection building.  Currently, she serves as Principal Investigator on two significant U.S. Department of Education grants for developing components of a Middle East Virtual Library; an NEH-JISC grant (partnered with SOAS in London) for developing Arabic Manuscript sources; and a joint Hewlett/MacArthur grant to establish a large-scale project for developing nations to access environmental, forestry, and oceanic scholarly journals. She has also been active in IFLA and currently serves on its Governing Board.



Robert E. Patterson practiced corporate and technology law with Squire Sanders & Dempsey, a large internationally focused corporate law firm, for 36 years through 2008 and in the course of that gradually embarked on a Silicon Valley based venture capital investing career. That career has been focused on the financing and development of sophisticated technology exploitation businesses, including those involving information technology, biotechnology, alternative energy and materials science.

Bob completed his Bachelors Degree in Physics from UCLA in 1964 and then spent five years on active duty in the U. S. Nuclear Navy, primarily in reactor and submarine technology schools and related weapons programs, both on shore and at sea, eventually leaving the Naval Reserve as a LCDR. He earned his JD from Stanford Law School in 1972 and remained in active practice until 2008. In 1980 he became a director and officer of Thompson Clive Ventures, a British venture capital firm, eventually forming the firm's Silicon Valley office, which in due course became Peninsula Ventures, a "Series A" venture capital firm. Bob completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program in 1986, and served on the GSB Alumni Association Board for three years from 1991 to 1993. In 1998 Bob became the Inaugural Fellow of the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and continued on the board of the Center until 2009. Having served on the board of many companies over the years, he now continues to serve as a member of the board of directors of the following: Sumida Corporation (electronic components - Tokyo Stock Exchange), California State Parks Foundation - (environmental policy - (501C3)), Factor Technology Group (marketing metrics technology - private), Green Plug (DC powered ubiquitous charging systems - private), Synzyme Technologies LLC (oxidative stress moderation therapeutics - private), and at the University of California at San Francisco, an affiliated group known as the "Quantum Leap Health Care Collaborative" (a center of excellence for breast cancer research - (501C3)).



David Rumsey is President of Cartography Associates, a digital publishing company based in San Francisco, and is a director of Luna Imaging, a provider of enterprise software for online image collections. He was a founding member of Yale Research Associates in the Arts, a group of artists working with electronic technologies. He subsequently became Associate Director of the American Society for Eastern Arts in San Francisco. Later, he entered a 20 year career in real estate development and finance during which he had a long association with the General Atlantic Holding Company of New York and served as President and Director of several of its real estate subsidiaries; General Atlantic eventually became the Atlantic Trust, a Bermuda based philanthropic foundation. Rumsey retired from real estate in 1995 and founded Cartography Associates, beginning a third career as a digital publisher, online library builder, and software entrepreneur. 

David Rumsey began building a collection of North and South American historical maps and related cartographic materials in 1980. His collection, with more than 150,000 maps, is one of the largest private map collections in the United States. In 1995, Rumsey began the task of making his collection public by building the online David Rumsey Historical Map Collection (www.davidrumsey.com). Currently the award winning collection has over 17,000 high-resolution images of maps from his collection. The site is free to the public and is updated monthly.  In 2007 and 2008 Rumsey added his historical maps to Google Earth and the virtual world, Second Life.

Mr. Rumsey received his BA and MFA from Yale University where he was a lecturer in art at the Yale Art School for several years. He serves on the boards of the John Carter Brown Library, the Internet Archive, The Long Now Foundation, and is a trustee of Yale Library Associates and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Rumsey has lectured widely regarding his online library work and has contributed to several publications on cartography and the advent of GIS.



Paul Saffo is a forecaster studying long-term technological change and its impact on business and society. He is a Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford, a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and serves on several boards, including the Singapore National Research Foundation Science Board. Recent essays have appeared in The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Post. Paul holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University.



Roger Summit is the founder and chairman emeritus of Dialog. An expert in information systems design, Dr. Summit conducted pioneering work beginning in 1962 while at the Lockheed Corporation that led to the creation of Dialog, the first-of-its-kind online information retrieval system. He has since held respected positions at Dialog and on national and international advisory boards and in professional  associations, and has received numerous honors. Dr. Summit has published over 100 papers and journal articles related to online information services.  

In 1972, Dialog was established as a commercial information retrieval business within the Lockheed Palo  Alto Research Laboratory. Ten years later in 1982, the company spun-off as a wholly owned subsidiary  with Dr. Summit as president. In 1988, he participated in the successful sale of Dialog to Knight-Ridder,  Inc. In February 1990, Dr. Summit was named president of Knight-Ridder's newly created Electronic  Publishing Group, and in 1991 he assumed the office of chairman and chief executive officer.

Dr. Summit holds a doctorate in management science (1965), a master’s in business administration (1957) and a bachelor’s in psychology (1952), all from Stanford University.



Prof. Akihiko Takano is Professor and Director for Research Center for Informatics of Association at the National Institute of Informatics in Japan.  Prior to joining NII in 2001, he had worked at research laboratories of Hitachi, Ltd. for almost 20 years.  He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, both from the University of Tokyo.  Since 2002, he is also Professor at Department of Computer Science, the University of Tokyo.



Mr. Gregory Tusher is the Founder and Managing Partner of Greenstone Partners & Co., a private investment partnership that is focused on select value-based investments in the public companies.  Prior to founding Greenstone Partners, Mr. Tusher was a Principal at JGE Capital, a partnership targeting both public and private equity investments.  Mr. Tusher's professional background includes positions as Vice President of Business Development at Knowledge Networks as well as private equity and investment banking at Morgan Stanley in both New York and Hong Kong. 

Mr. Tusher served on the Stanford University Athletic Board from 2002-2004 and currently serves on the Investment Committee of the California Academy of Sciences.  He has a B.A. from Stanford University in Economics and Political Science and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. 



Christopher Warnock is the CEO and co-founder of ebrary. ebrary, provides technology solutions and information services that improve digital information access, user comprehension and navigation between disparate electronic resources, to institutions in 62 countries. Prior to founding ebrary, Mr. Warnock provided feasibility research that serves as the foundation for Octavo Corporation, for the digitization, preservation and publication of rare books and manuscripts using advanced digital tools and imaging technologies. From 1991-1996, he worked at Adobe Systems as a systems engineer, project manager, and project-marketing manager. Mr. Warnock holds a B.S. in Philosophy from the University of Utah.



Karin Wittenborg has been University Librarian at the University of Virginia since September 1993. She previously held positions at UCLA, Stanford, MIT, and the State University of New York. She received a BA from Brown University and an MLS from SUNY-Buffalo.

Wittenborg serves on the advisory councils for Stanford University Libraries, Brown University's Library and John Hopkins University Library. She also serves on the Council of Library and Information Resources Board.

The University Library was the 2005 recipient of the most prestigious national award for excellence in academic libraries. Wittenborg was the 2004 recipient of the University of Virginia's Zintl Leadership Award and is a member of the University's Raven Society.

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