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Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), US, Jim Mullins, Dean of Libraries at Purdue University (2- or 4-year term - TBD)
Mullins has been at Purdue since 2004; prior he held positions at MIT, Villanova and Indiana Universities. He servied in leadership positions within the American Library Association and the Association of Research Libraries, including a term as member of the ARL board of directors and is past-chair of the e-Science Working Group. Internationally, he has been active in IFLA's Science and Technology Section, a board member of IATUL, and a founding member of DataCite. He received his undergraduate and MALS degrees from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Indiana University. His research interest is in data management and the role of library and archival sciences in data organization and preservation.
Consortium arXiv-DH and HGF: Coordinated by the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany, Uwe Rosemann, Director, German National Library of Science and Technology - TIB, GermanyGermany (2- or 4-year term - TBD)
Rosemann studied mathematics at the University of Bielefeld. He began his professional career in 1980 as a subject specialist in mathematics and computer science at Bielefeld's university library, since 1998 he is the head of TIB. Uwe Rosemann has managed large-scale, third-party funded projects and has worked for the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on various boards and committees. He is a member on several scientific advisory boards and commissions. Uwe Rosemann publishes articles and holds lectures on themes related to the management of libraries, digital libraries and copyright law.
Jisc, UK, Catriona Cannon, Associate Director, Collection Support, Bodleian LibrariesLibraries (2- or 4-year term - TBD)
In her current role, Catríona is responsible for leadership, management, policy and planning responsibilities for the library-wide collection support functions and scholarly communications programme. This includes collection acquisition, licensing and description, whether through purchase, legal deposit or donation, and collections care, preservation, storage, logistics and the operational management of exhibitions. Her duties also include overseeing the Bodleian Libraries' materials budget and leading the subject librarians in developing and managing the collections. She has served on a number of professional committees throughout her career and is currently a member of the Legal Deposit Implementation Group and the Joint Committee for Legal Deposit. She is a Life Member of Wolfson College Common Room. Catríona graduated from Trinity College Dublin (French and Latin) in 1990, received an MPhil in European Literature from the University of Oxford in 1992 and an MA in Library and Information Studies from University College London in 1995. She became a member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in 1997.
University of California, US, MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian at UC DavisDavis (2- or 4-year term - TBD)
MacKenzie Smith has been the University Librarian at UC Davis since June, 2012. Smith has been an academic research librarian since 1985, specializing in information technology and digital knowledge management. She attended the University of Washington before moving to the Midwest to attend graduate school at the University of Chicago. She spent the following decades on the East Coast, at the libraries of Harvard University and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She led cutting-edge research projects in digital libraries and archives; Web applications for online scholarly communication; and digital data curation in support of e-science. She also led the development of the DSpace open source software platform for digital archives. As a research fellow for the Creative Commons organization, she has worked extensively on intellectual property policy for scientific research data and on advocacy for Open Access to scholarly journals and other research products.
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