Speakers

Georgia K. Harper is the Scholarly Communications Advisor for the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, where she focuses on issues of digital access. She was Senior Attorney and manager of the Intellectual Property Section of the Office of General Counsel for the University of Texas System until August 2006, and currently represents the Office of General Counsel as outside counsel for copyright.

She is author of the online publication, The Copyright Crash Course, that provides guidance to university faculty, students and staff concerning a wide range of copyright issues and is freely accessible to all universities and colleges.

She has conducted local, state, regional and national workshops and seminars on copyright issues and has been an advisor to the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of American Universities, and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and the American Council on Education. She was named a fellow of the National Association of College and University Attorneys in June 2001. Her C.V. provides more information.

Ms. Harper graduated with High Honors from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Education and with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin's Law School with a J.D. degree. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, in Information Studies. Her academic and career goals, research interests, and how those relate to copyright law and the Crash Course, are detailed more fully in Georgia Harper -- The third career, but who's counting, and on her personal blog, Lifelong learning: The third degree.

Michael Jon Jensen has been at the interface between digital technologies and scholarly/academic publishing since the late 1980s. In 2007 he was appointed Director of Strategic Web Communications for the Office of Communications of the National Academies and National Academies Press. Prior to this appointment, he served as Director of Web Communications for the National Academies (2002-2007), and Director of Publishing Technologies (1998-2007) at the National Academies Press. The pioneering NAP website makes more than 4000 books (more than 750,000 pages) from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council fully browsable and searchable online for free (www.nap.edu). The site receives more than 1.5 million visitors per month, and boasts of some of the most advanced search and discovery tools available on any publisher's site, most of which were initially developed by Mr. Jensen.

Michael A. Keller is Stanford’s University Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources (i.e. Academic Computing), Founder/Publisher of HighWire Press, and Publisher of the Stanford University Press.  He was educated at Hamilton College (biology & music), the SUNY/Buffalo (musicology), and SUNY/Geneseo (librarianship).  He has had library leadership roles at Cornell, UC/Berkeley, Yale, and Stanford, and has taught in the Music Departments at Cornell and Stanford.

Keller has served on various boards (Alibris, Ebrary, Groxis, Cisco Learning Institute, Hamilton College, Long Now Foundation, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, National Institute for Informatics of Japan, National Library of China) and consulted and spoken widely on library facilities, services& organization, on informatics, and on Internet & general publishing; among his clients and venues have been Newsweek, the City of Ferrara, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Indiana University, Princeton University, Singapore National Library, University of Edinburgh, University of Melbourne, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology).

Michael Keller is a guest professor of the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Senior Presidential Fellow of the Council on Library and Information Resources in Washington, D.C. He was a founder and then president of the Digital Library Federation, during the latter assignment instigating the Aquifer project. 

During his watch at Stanford numerous innovative exploitations of digital technologies & the Internet arose and are still flourishing, among them: HighWire Press; LOCKSS/CLOCKSS; CourseWork (Sakai); the GATT Digital Archive; the Stanford Digital Repository, and the Matthew Parker Online Library project at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. Keller is the policy lead at Stanford on the Google Book Search project, for which he has considerable enthusiasm.

Apropos of this conference, he delivered a lecture at the Siemens Stiftung in Munich in March 2008 on “The future of books, libraries, and publishing”.

For more information see http://highwire.stanford.edu/~mkeller & http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1999/sepoct/articles/keller.html.

Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997.  CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley’s School of Information.  He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization.  Lynch serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress, Microsoft’s Technical Computing Science Advisory Board, the board of the New Media Consorium, and the Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits.

Stuart Shieber is James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.  His primary research field is computational linguistics, the study of human languages from the perspective of computer science.  He is the founding director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society and is the Director of the University's Office for Scholarly Communication.

Professor Shieber received an AB in applied mathematics summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1981 and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1989.  He was awarded a Presidential Young Investigator award in 1991, and was named a Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1993, one of only thirty in the country in all areas of science and engineering.

He has been awarded two honorary chairs: the John L. Loeb Associate Professorship in Natural Sciences in 1993 and the Harvard College Professorship in 2001. He was named a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2004, and the Benjamin White Whitney Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for 2006-07.

David Shulenburger is NASULGC’s first Vice President for Academic Affairs.  His immediate areas of concentration are on accountability and assessment in higher education and on the economics of higher education. Before joining NASULGC in June 2006, David Shulenburger was Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Kansas. He served there as chief academic officer for thirteen years. He came to the University in 1974 as an assistant professor and now holds the emeritus professor title. He received his Ph.D. and Masters degrees from the University of Illinois and his undergraduate degree from Lenoir Rhyne College. He previously served as a faculty member at Clemson University and as a labor economist for the U.S. Department of Labor.

His current research and writing focus on the economics of scholarly communications and of universities. He has been active nationally and internationally as an advocate for reform in the areas of accountability, scholarly communication and academic accreditation.

He was chair of the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries from 2005-07, and is currently a member of that board, the National Commission on Writing, and a Consulting Editor for Change Magazine. He was Chair of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges Council on Academic Affairs in 2000-2001, a member of the BioOne board and of the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation.

Donald J. Waters is the Program Officer for Scholarly Communications at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Before joining the Foundation in 1999, he served as the first Director of the Digital Library Federation (1997-1999), as Associate University Librarian at Yale University (1993-1997), and in a variety of other positions at the Computer Center, the School of Management, and the University Library at Yale. Waters graduated with a Bachelor's degree in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1973. In 1982, he received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University. Waters conducted his dissertation research on the political economy of artisanry in Guyana, South America. He has edited a collection of African-American folklore from the Hampton Institute in a volume entitled Strange Ways and Sweet Dreams. In 1995-96, he co-chaired the Task Force of the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group on Archiving of Digital Information, and was the editor and a principal author of the Task Force Report. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was a member of the U.S. Copyright Office’s Section 108 Study Group, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Coalition for Networked Information as well as the National Digital Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress. He is also the author of numerous articles and presentations on libraries, digital libraries, digital preservation, and scholarly communications.