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Los Alamos National Laboratory, US, Carol Hoover, Digital Information Resources Manager (6-year term ending December 20192018)
Carol has been managing digital collections at LANL for over 10 years. She understands core science areas/R&D at LANL, actively seeks to integrate OA content into the Library collections and champions OA with LANL researchers. She has been a member of the SCOAP3 Technical Working Group, helping to develop the specifications for the market tender, and is now a US representative on the SCOAP3 Governing Council. She has served on many publisher Library Advisory Boards and has a strong and deep working knowledge of publishing business models, issues in scholarly publishing and budgeting and business practices across federal government libraries. She received a 2011 LANL Distinguished Performance Award for her work setting up a DOE complex-wide consortia licensing model for subscription-based content.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, Tracy Gabridge, Associate Director for Research & Instructional Services (6-year term ending December 20192018)
Tracy Gabridge has held a variety of positions including co-Head of the Engineering and Science Libraries during her 13 years at MIT. Her library career focus has been on developing and evolving liaison services to match the highly dynamic needs of the MIT community, using a variety of assessment tools including ethnographic methods to inform action. Tracy has been an active participant in the support and implementation of MIT's Open Access Policy. Recently she investigated content use principles in Massively Open Online Classes (MOOCs) as part of the edX Libraries Collaborative group. She began her work in libraries in 2000 after a successful career as an electrical engineer and manager at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
University of Alberta, Canada, Tim Klassen, Head, Science and Technology Library (6-year term ending December 20192018)
Tim Klassen is Head, Science & Technology Library at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Alberta. Previous positions include Head of the Science Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and at Wesleyan University. He was also a Science Librarian at Southern Connecticut State University and the University of Oregon, and was Systems Librarian at Southern Connecticut State University. Tim has almost 20 years of experience in Physics collection development and has been involved in a number of Physics journal evaluation projects. Current interests include assessment, e-science, and all issues related to OA publishing. He’s a 20 year plus member of ALA, has served on several STS committees, and is currently co-chair of the Assessment Committee.
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Alison M. Scott is the Associate University Librarian for Collection Management & Scholarly Communication at the University of California, Los Angeles (her prior position was at UC, Riverside). Before coming to California in 2014, she held positions in a variety of academic libraries, including Head of Collection Development for the George Washington University Libraries, Charles Warren Bibliographer for American History at Harvard University, and Head of the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University. She holds master's degrees in religion and library science from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University. Her research interests center on the history of the book in the United States, including women’s reading in the Early Republic, story papers of the Civil War era, and the relationships between prestige and collection development in academic libraries.
Japan NII Consortia, Hideaki TakedaTakashi Hikihara, Professor, Computer Science National Institute of Informatics, JapanDirector General of Library Network, Kyoto University, Department of Electrical Engineering, (4- or 6-year institutional term - based on the number of High-Contributing Organizations)
Hideaki Takeda He has been at Kyoto University since 1997 and is a full professor in computer science at National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, JapanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University. His research field is Artificial Intelligence, particularly Semantic Web and Social Media Analysis. He in nonlinear dynamics and its application, control and measurement, and power electronics. He is an author of more than 100 scientific and technical papers in computer science. He has also worked for scholarly communication field by contributing design of scholarly communication services offered by NII and by serving as a representative of NII in the variety of domestic and international activities. He is currently the chair of Japan Link Center (DOI RA), the president of Research Data Utilization Forum, Japan, the chair of SPARC Japan, and was a board member of ORCID (2012-2016). . He became the Deputy Director General of Library Network, Kyoto University on April 2011, and the Director General on Oct. 2012. As the Director, he led Kyoto University to declare Open Access Policy in 2015, which has impacted other institutes in Japan and invites them to green.
3. Simons Foundation
One voting member from the Simons Foundation.
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