Thursday, April 20, 2000
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Speakers
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Clifford A. Lynch
is Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked
Information, an organization created to explore the uses of information
technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment
of intellectual productivity. Founded in 1990 by the Association of Research
Libraries, Educom, and CAUSE, CNI is supported by the members of an institutional
Task Force representing higher education, publishing, network and telecommunications,
information technology, and libraries and library organizations. Before joining CNI,
he was the former head of libraries for the University of California system.
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Marlene Manoff
is Associate Head of the MIT Humanities Library. She has written
about the politics of building library collections and the impact
of electronic technology on scholarly research.
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Deanna Marcum is president of the Council on Library and
Information Resources, a nonprofit organization formed
by the merger of the Commission on Preservation and Access
and the Council on Library Resources. In the past, she has
served as Director of Public Service and Collection Management
at the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995 and Dean
of the School of Library and Information Science at the
Catholic University of America from 1989 to 1992.
Marcum earned a Ph.D. in American studies from the
University of Maryland in 1991. In 1979, she completed
work on her master's degree in library science from the
University of Kentucky.
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Ann Wolpert has been Director of Libraries at MIT since 1996.
Before joining MIT she served as Executive Director of Library and
Information Services at the Harvard Business School from
1992-1996 after spending 16 years at Arthur D. Little, Inc. She has
a BA from Boston University and an MLS from Simmons College.
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