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October 11, 2012 by Gary Price

CLIR and Vanderbilt University Form Committee to Examine National-scale Digital Projects in Higher Education

October 11, 2012 by Gary Price

From the Council on Library and Information Resources and Vanderbilt University:

The Council on Library and Information Resources and Vanderbilt University have established a committee to examine emerging national-scale digital projects and their potential to help transform higher education in terms of scholarly productivity, teaching, cost-efficiency, and sustainability.
The group, called the Committee on Coherence at Scale for Higher Education, comprises college and university presidents and provosts, deans, university librarians, and association heads. The committee will provide the leadership necessary to ensure that these projects are designed and developed as elements of a larger and encompassing digital environment.
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The committee will focus on research and analysis of the large projects and their correlation; initial costs, operating costs and business plans for sustainability; and benefits and transformational aspects. Examples of these projects include the Hathi Trust, the Digital Public Library of America, the Digital Preservation Network, and data curation centers. Results of the committee’s work will be publicized regularly.
“This array of national-scale projects offers an enormous opportunity for educational organizations and institutions to build new bases of support, reach new constituencies, cultivate funding agencies, and build lasting, mutually sustaining connections between the public and private sectors,” said Henry.
Members of the Committee include:
—Edward Ayers, president and professor of history, University of Richmond
—Paul Courant, university librarian and dean of libraries, Arthur F. Thurnau professor, Harold T. Shapiro collegiate professor of public policy, professor of economics and of information, faculty associate in the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
—Connie Vinita Dowell, dean of libraries, Vanderbilt University
—Rachel Frick, director, Digital Library Federation, CLIR
—Chuck Henry, president, CLIR
—Geneva Henry, executive director, Center for Digital Scholarship, Rice University
—James Hilton, vice president and chief information officer, University of Virginia
—Michael Keller, university librarian and publisher of Stanford University Press, publisher of HighWire Press, director of academic information resources, Stanford University
—Rick Luce, dean, University Libraries, professor and Peggy V. Helmerich chair, associate vice president for research, University of Oklahoma
—Richard McCarty, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, Vanderbilt University
—Diana Oblinger, president and CEO, EDUCAUSE
—Bernie Reilly, president, Center for Research Libraries
—Joan Hinde Stewart, president and professor of French, Hamilton College
—Elliott Shore, chief information officer, Constance A. Jones director of libraries, professor of history, Bryn Mawr College; incoming executive director of the Association of Research Libraries
—John C. Vaughn, executive vice president, Association of American Universities
—Gary Wihl, dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Hortense & Tobias Lewin distinguished professor in the humanities in Arts and Sciences, Washington University
The committee will hold its first meeting in January 2013.

Read the Complete Announcement
Note: This announcement is also posted on the CLIR web site.

Filed under: Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Productivity, Public Libraries, Publishing

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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