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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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