Meeting of the OVERSEERS’ COMMITTEE TO VISIT THE HARVARD LIBRARY

March 21–22, 2017 MEETING OF THE OVERSEERS’ COMMITTEE TO VISIT THE HARVARD LIBRARY March 21-22, 2017

Table of Contents

I. *Introduction a. Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Library, Members, 2016-2018 b. Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Library, Member Bios c. Meeting Agenda d. Presenter Bios e. Campus Map

II. *Harvard University: Strategic Directions and Priorities a. Mission and Goals

III. Harvard Library Overview a. *Harvard Library Visiting Committee Report, 2014 b. *Harvard Library Management Response, 2015 c. *Memorandum to the Visiting Committee d. *Closing the Book on the Transition: The Harvard Library e. *Budget Overview f. *Harvard Library Allocation Model g. *Objectives in Action 2016-2021 h. *Harvard Library Administrative Organization i. *Harvard Library Committee Structure j. Standing Committee Annual Report k. Report of the Harvard Library Committee System Assessment Working Group IV. Harvard Library’s Digital Strategy a. *Harvard Library Digital Strategy 1.0 b. Research Data Management at Harvard Library c. *Embracing the Library’s Digital Future d. Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab e. Baker 3.0 f. Charlie Archive at the Harvard Library g. Colonial North America at Harvard Library h. Uncovering Harvard Library’s Hidden Collections i. Web Archiving j. Email Archiving k. The Dataverse Project l. *Strategic Conversations m. *Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) Event Flyers

V. Lunch with the Library Board and Faculty Advisory Council (FAC) a. FAC Meeting Minutes b. *FAC, Academic Year 2016 c. *Library Board, Academic Year 2016

VI. Collective Collections a. *Summary of Harvard’s Relations and Aspirations b. The Transformation of Academic Library Collecting: A Symposium Inspired by Dan C. Hazen

VII. Diversity and Inclusion in Collections and Staff a. *Minding the Gap b. *Radcliffe and the Right c. Righting the Record: The Schlesinger Context d. Update on the Baird Collection e. Strategic Conversations f. *Diversity and Inclusion: A Strategic Priority for the Harvard Library

VIII. Dinner at Houghton Library a. *Houghton Library 75th Anniversary

IIX. Library Directors Roundtable a. Harvard Library Strategic Plans - Andover-Harvard Theological Library - Baker Library - Schlesinger Library - Frances Loeb Library - Monroe C. Gutman Library - Houghton Library - Harvard-Yenching Library b. *Harvard Library Fact Sheet Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Library 2016-2018 Roster

Peter Baldwin Yolanda Cooper 17 Aubrey Walk Robert W. Woodruff Library London, W8 7JH Emory University United Kingdom 540 Asbury Circle, Suite 316 Phone: 310 396-0108 Atlanta, GA 30322 Email: [email protected] Phone: 404-727-0133 Email: [email protected] Christine L. Borgman (Chair) UCLA Department of Information Studies Lorraine Haricombe Graduate School of Education & Information University of Texas Libraries Studies University of Texas 235 GSEIS Building, Box 951520 101 East 21st Street Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521 Austin, TX 78712 Phone: 310 825-6164 Phone: 512-495-4350 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Chris Bourg Deanna Lee (Overseer) MIT Libraries Carnegie Corporation of New York Massachusetts Institute of Technology c/o President’s Office 32 Vassar Street, 145-216 437 Madison Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 New York, NY 10022 Phone: 617-253-5297 Phone: 213-277-0217 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Daniel Cohen Richard Ovenden DPLA Clarendon Building c/o Boston Public Library Bodleian Libraries 700 Boylston Street Broad Street Boston, MA 02116 Oxford, OX1 3BG Email: [email protected] Phone: 011-44-1865-277158 Email: [email protected]

- 1 - Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Library 2016-2018 Roster

Katherine Rowe Margaret E. Newell Office of the Provost and Dean of Faculty Deputy Provost, Office of the President and Smith College Provost 10 Elm Street Harvard University College Hall 206 Massachusetts Hall Northampton, MA 01063 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 413-585-3000 Phone: 617-495-9093 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Abby S. Rumsey Sarah E. Thomas 24 Beulah Street Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian; Member of the Faculty of San Francisco, CA 94117 Arts and Sciences; Roy E. Larsen Librarian for Email: [email protected] the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Harvard University Karin A. Trainer Widener Library, Room 110 20 McCosh Circle Cambridge, MA 02138 Princeton, NJ 08540 Phone: 617-496-1295 Phone: 609-252-0103 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] James F. Williams II Lawrence Wilkinson Dean's Office, Norlin Library Heminge & Condell University of Colorado, Boulder 1914 Lake Street 1720 Pleasant Street, 184UCB San Francisco, CA 94121-1314 Boulder, CO 80309-0184 Phone: 415-387-6155 Phone: 303-492-7626 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Ex Officio

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Peter Baldwin, Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles

Peter Baldwin is Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles, and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. He is interested especially in the historical development of the modern state, a broad field that has led him many different directions. His books have dealt above all with France, Germany, Britain, Sweden, Denmark and the United States, and he has published works on the comparative history of the welfare state, on social policy more broadly, and on public health. His book The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (Princeton University Press, 2014), is a trans-national political history of copyright from 1710 to the present. He has projects underway on the historical development of privacy, on the history of honor, and also a global history of the state.

Baldwin is co-founder of the Arcadia Foundation, which supports charities and scholarly institutions that preserve cultural heritage and the environment, as well as projects that promote open access. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Global Forum, National Library of Israel, and a member of the boards of Authors Alliance, the New York Public Library, Bard College Berlin, the American Council of Learned Societies, the History News Network, and the Wikimedia Endowment. He holds a PhD in history from Harvard University and a BA in philosophy and history from Yale University.

- 1 - Christine L. Borgman (Chair), Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies; University of California at Los Angeles

Christine L. Borgman, Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA, is the author of more than 250 publications in information studies, computer science, and communication. These include three books from MIT Press: Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World (2015), winner of the 2015 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Computing and Information Sciences; Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (2007); and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (2000). The latter two books won the Best Information Science Book of the Year award from the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST).

Borgman serves as Co-Chair of the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation and Attribution. She is a member of the Library of Congress Scholars Council; a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center; a Council Member of the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICSPR); member of the CLARIAH International Advisory Panel; member of the advisor board of Authorea; and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for Computing Machinery. At UCLA, she directs the Center for Knowledge Infrastructures with research grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and other sources.

Her honors and awards include the Paul Evan Peters Award from the Coalition for Networked Information, Association for Research Libraries, and EDUCAUSE, and the Research in Information Science Award from ASIST, and a Legacy Laureate of the University of Pittsburgh. At the University of Oxford she has been an Oliver Smithies Fellow at Balliol College and a Visiting Scholar at both the Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford eResearch Centre. At the Digital Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) and the eHumanities Group in the Netherlands, she has been a Visiting Scholar hosted by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Previously she served as a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, Hungary, and a Visiting Professor at Loughborough University, U.K.

- 2 - Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chris Bourg was appointed to Director of the MIT Libraries in February 2015. Prior to MIT, she served in a variety of leadership positions at Stanford University, where she was most recently associate university librarian for public services. She managed the public service facets of physical and digital library services of the largest division of the Stanford University Libraries, with six branches and a collection of more than 4 million volumes.

Bourg’s career began with 10 years of service as an officer in the United States Army, including three years on the faculty of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where she taught sociology and leadership.

Bourg received her BA from Duke University, her MA from the University of Maryland, and her MA and PhD in sociology from Stanford. She has written and spoken extensively on the topics of libraries, leadership, diversity, and social justice. She is a strong advocate for gender equality, and was involved in creating and leading the first Women’s Voices and Influence group for Stanford staff.

Dan Cohen, Founding Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America

Dan Cohen is the Founding Executive Director of the DPLA, where he works to further the DPLA’s mission to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all. Prior to his tenure, he was a Professor of History and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. At the Center, he oversaw projects ranging from new publishing ventures (PressForward) to online collections (September 11 Digital Archive) to software for scholarship (the popular Zotero research tool). His books include Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (with Roy Rosenzweig) and Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith.

Cohen was an inaugural recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Digital Innovation Fellowship. In 2011 he received the Frederick G. Kilgour Award from the American Library Association for his work in digital humanities, and in 2012 he was named one of the top “tech innovators” in academia by the Chronicle of Higher Education. He received his bachelor’s

- 3 - degree from Princeton, his master’s degree from Harvard, and his PhD from Yale.

Yolanda Cooper, University Librarian, Emory University

Yolanda Cooper is the University Librarian at Emory University, where she oversees many facets of the Robert W. Woodruff Library and its affiliate branches, including areas of content, services, scholarly communications, external affairs, and library administration, as well as the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL). Directors of the Goizueta Business Library and the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library also report to her. Her responsibilities include articulating ways in which library services, digital scholarship, and informational technology can better support Emory’s mission and vision; implementing annual operational plans for the Woodruff Library and its branches; chairing the Library Cabinet; and working with key library governance groups.

Cooper joined Emory from the University of Miami, where she served as librarian associate professor, deputy university librarian, and acting dean and university librarian. At the University of Miami she was responsible for services, programming, and operations of all libraries on the Coral Gables and Virginia Key campuses. Her background also includes work with research library systems at Indiana University Bloomington, the University of Virginia, the University of Northern Colorado, and the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Cooper’s professional library experience has touched upon many operational areas in both public and private institutions, including technical services, digital programs, access services, special collections, and administrative services. She earned an undergraduate degree in psychology and an MLS, Information Science, from Indiana University Bloomington.

Lorraine J. Haricombe, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at The University of Texas at Austin

Lorraine J. Haricombe has served as Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at The University of Texas at Austin since February 2015. In this role, she oversees one of the nation’s largest academic research library systems, which includes the flagship Perry-Castañeda Library, nine specialized branch libraries, and world-class special collections (Alexander Architectural Archive, Benson Latin American Collection, and the PCL Map Collection).

- 4 - Haricombe was previously the Dean of Libraries at the University of Kansas (KU). During her tenure there, she oversaw the enhancement of several library facilities across campus. She was instrumental in implementing a faculty-led open access policy at KU, the first public institution in the United States with such a policy, ensuring increased visibility for KU research and scholarship. In addition to her university experience, Haricombe is a co-founder of the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions in North America, an international advocacy group for institutions with open access policies. She also has served for the past seven years as a mentor to junior librarians from underrepresented areas as part of the Association of Research Libraries Leadership Career Development Program.

Haricombe earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, sociology, and library and information science at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Deanna Lee, Carnegie Corporation of New York (Overseer)

Deanna Lee is the Carnegie Corporation’s chief communications and digital strategies officer. She oversees web initiatives and the development of new distribution channels, in addition to programmatic dissemination, media relations, publications, design, and digital and public engagement.

Previously, Lee was the vice president for communications and marketing at The New York Public Library, where she spearheaded publicity, marketing, design, multimedia content, advocacy, and publications initiatives. She oversaw NYPL’s expansion into a leading social media presence, and in 2011 launched the groundbreaking Biblion: The Boundless Library Apple Hall of Fame iPad education app.

Lee also served as vice president of communications at Asia Society, following a 20-year career in broadcast journalism. As overseas producer for ABC News Nightline, she worked in the former Yugoslavia, Israel and the Middle East, Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, and Australia. In Africa, she covered famine and the U.S. deployment in Somalia, the election of Nelson Mandela, and AIDS in Uganda. In Asia, she reported on global environmental, health, and demographic concerns; and covered the death of Deng Xiaoping, the Hong Kong handover, and the resurgence of Shanghai as a world financial center. Deanna was a senior producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and Charles Gibson. She is the recipient of eight News and Documentary Emmy Awards and one duPont-Columbia Award.

- 5 - A native of Seattle, Washington, Lee is first-generation Chinese American. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University in Music, and English and American Literature. She serves on the boards of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, Girl Be Heard, and the New York Piano Society. In May 2013, Deanna was elected to the Harvard University Board of Overseers.

Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian, University of Oxford

Richard Ovenden is Bodley’s Librarian, the 25th person to hold the title, which is the senior executive position of the Bodleian Libraries. Richard was educated at Durham University and University College London, and has worked as a professional librarian since 1985. He has served on the staff of Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland (as Deputy Head of the Rare Books Section), the University of Edinburgh (as Director of Collections), and since 2003 at the Bodleian Libraries (first as Keeper of Special Collections, from 2011-2014 as Deputy Librarian, the Bodleian Libraries, then from 2014 as Bodley’s Librarian).

Ovenden sits on the Board of Research Libraries UK and of the Consortium of European Research Libraries, is a Trustee of the Krazsna Kraus Foundation, of Chawton House Library, and of the Victoria County History for Oxfordshire, and is currently President of the Digital Preservation Coalition. He has published widely on the history of collecting, the history of photography and on professional concerns of the library, archive, and information world, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015. Recently he headed Oxford’s involvement with the Google mass digitization project. He holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford.

Katherine Rowe, Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Smith College

As the Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Rowe serves as the chief academic officer and works closely with the President of the College. She is responsible for the curriculum and for support for faculty teaching and research; she chairs the Committee on Academic Priorities and oversees the long-term composition of the faculty.

Rowe came to Smith in 2014, following 16 years on the English faculty at Bryn Mawr College, where she helped lead curricular innovation and directed the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center for leadership and public engagement.

- 6 - She is co-founder of Luminary Digital Media, a social reading platform that is bringing literary works to mobile devices, including iPad apps of the Folger Library Shakespeare editions.

Rowe holds degrees in English and American literature from Carleton College (B.A.) and Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D.). She is a scholar of Renaissance literature and media history and a leader in digital humanities initiatives.

Abby S. Rumsey, Historian and Writer

Abby Smith Rumsey is a writer and historian focusing on the creation, preservation, and use of the cultural record in all media. She has served as director of the Scholarly Communication Institute at the University of Virginia, and has advised universities and their research libraries on strategies to integrate digital information resources into existing collections and services.

For over a decade, Rumsey worked with the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in development of a national strategy to identify, collect, and preserve digital content of long-term value. She served on the National Science Foundation’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, as well as the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Rumsey has served as director of programs at the Council on Library and Information Resources and was responsible for projects that addressed the use and preservation of historical and cultural materials in all genres, formats, and media. She also has managed programs at the Library of Congress relating to preservation of and access to cultural heritage collections. She holds a BA from Radcliffe College and MA and PhD degrees in history from Harvard University, where she specialized in Early Modern Russia and intellectual history. She has been a Fulbright Fellow and taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities.

Karin A. Trainer, University Librarian, Princeton University (retired 2016)

Karin A. Trainer served as University librarian at Princeton University for 20 years, overseeing extensive growth in the library system. She worked as a

- 7 - librarian in the Catalog Department at the University’s Firestone Library from 1972 to 1978 before returning to Princeton as University librarian in 1996.

Trainer oversaw dramatic change to the physical spaces of the library system, including the renovation of Firestone Library, a 12-year project. She also oversaw the creation of the Cotsen Children’s Library; the expansion and renovation of the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology; the construction of the Lewis Library; the construction of the Stokes Library at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; the partial renovation of the East Asian Library; and the construction of the ReCAP storage library on Princeton's Forrestal Campus. ReCAP is owned by Columbia University, the New York Public Library and Princeton, and managed by Princeton.

Among her professional associations, Trainer was a board member of the Association of Research Libraries and undertook a number of committee assignments, many focusing on creating a diverse workforce for research libraries. In 2010, she arranged for Princeton to host the National Conference on Diversity in Libraries. She has served as a member of several reaccreditation panels for other Ivy League universities. Previously, Trainer was associate university librarian at Yale University and director of technical and automated services at New York University.

Lawrence Wilkinson, Chairman, Heminge and Condell

Lawrence Wilkinson is Chairman of Heminge & Condell (H&C) and Co- Founder of Global Business Network. Through H&C, Lawrence is involved in venture formation work, and as a director and counselor to a number of companies that he helped create, among them: GBN, Ealing Studios, Design Within Reach, Mercantila, and Character. Named a “Jedi Knight of Innovation” by Fast Company, Lawrence is a widely consulted and cited authority on strategic issues.

Wilkinson co-founded (in 1987) and served as President (through 1998) of Global Business Network (GBN), a San Francisco, California-based strategic consulting firm (now part of the Monitor Group), where he remains of counsel as a Network member and strategist. He serves as Director and Advisor to Ealing Studios, Ltd., the oldest continuously operating film studio in the world. He has served as a Vice-Chairman of Oxygen Media, Inc., a cable television programming service that he co-founded in June of 1998 with partners including Geraldine Laybourne, Oprah Winfrey, Carsey-Werner, and Disney. He helped form, then served as Director and Chief Architect of, Wired Ventures, the partnership that built and managed Wired Magazine, Wired

- 8 - Digital//HotWired, and other ventures (now a part of Conde Nast). And he helped form and serves as a director of Design Within Reach (DWRI, Nasdaq).

Wilkinson has produced and executive-produced numerous television programs, multimedia titles, and feature films. He has taught on the faculties of The World Economic Forum’s annual Davos Summit, the Microsoft CEO Summit, The Salzburg Global Seminar, and several business and graduate schools, and has served as a McKinsey Prize judge. He graduated from Harvard Business School, the University of Oxford, and Davidson College.

James F. Williams, II, Dean of Libraries, University of Colorado at Boulder

James F. Williams, II has been Dean of Libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1988. His career includes 13 years as a Medical Librarian and 33 years in research library administration. His research interests include health sciences librarianship, strategic planning, leadership in research libraries, and resource sharing and networking. Williams holds a baccalaureate degree from Morehouse College and a graduate degree from Atlanta University.

Williams is a member of the board of BioOne, the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences, Simmons College PhD in Managerial Leadership, and the journal Portal: Libraries and the Academy. On the regional level, he has served as a board member of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (Alliance), Guaranty Bank and Trust, and Tru Community Care, as well as Trustee of the Denver Art Museum.

Williams has been awarded the American Library Association’s Melvil Dewey Medal (2002) and the University of Colorado Boulder Medal (2010).

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Meeting of the Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Library March 21 – 22, 2017

Tuesday, March 21, 2017 Widener Library, Rm. 240

8:30 – 9:00 am Executive Session

9:00 – 9:10 am Welcome by Provost Provost Alan Garber, Harvard University

9:10 – 9:30am Harvard University—Strategic Directions and Priorities Margaret Newell, Deputy Provost Lisa M. Coleman, Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity

9:30 – 10:00 am Library Overview 1. Visiting Committee Report 2014 2. Funding and Resources 3. Alignment with University Goals

Sarah Thomas, Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian; Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Questions for discussion: How might the Library increase its alignment with university goals? How do its objectives map to the strategic directions?

Meeting of the Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Library Page 1 of 4 March 21 – 22, 2017

10:00 – 10:15 am Break

10:15 am – 11:45 am Harvard Library’s Digital Strategy Suzanne Wones, Director of Library Digital Strategies and Innovations Robin Kelsey, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography; Dean of Arts and Humanities Douglas Chan, graduate student, GSE

Question: The Library has excelled in digitization of documents and in the exploration of issues such as email archiving, but its partnership with the university in digital scholarship and research is neither coordinated nor robust at the Harvard Library level. How does Harvard compare to peers, and what is necessary to support 21st century scholarship?

Cabot Science Library 12:00 – 12:45 pm Tour of the Cabot Science Library (includes travel time, plus 30 minutes) Knafel Center Radcliffe Institute

12:45 – 2:00 pm Lunch with the Library Board and Faculty Advisory Council for the Library

2:00 – 3:30 pm Collective Collections – ReCAP, HathiTrust, CRL, and Ivy Plus Elizabeth Kirk, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources Kenneth Peterson, Interim Associate University Librarian for Research and Education

Questions: How can the Harvard Library partner effectively and strategically with others? How does one best engage faculty and staff in the shift to collective collections?

Meeting of the Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Library Page 2 of 4 March 21 – 22, 2017

3:30 – 4:00 pm Break

4:00 – 5:00 pm Diversity and Inclusion in Collections and Staff Robin Bernstein, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Lori Cawthorne, Senior Human Resources Consultant Jane Kamensky, Pforzheimer Faculty Director of the Schlesinger Library; Professor of History Kenvi Phillips, Curator for Race and Ethnicity

Question: What are best practices for diversity and inclusion in university libraries?

5:00 – 5:30 pm Executive session

Houghton Library 6:30 – 7:00 pm Tour of Houghton Library (optional)

7:00 – 9:00 pm Dinner at Houghton Library Dinner Discussion Topic: Houghton 75th- Look back/look forward, what’s changing in the next 75 years?

Thomas Hyry, Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library and Director of Arts and Special Collections of the HCL Anne-Marie Eze, Director of Scholarly and Public Programs, Houghton Library

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 Forum Room, Lamont Library

8:30 – 9:00 am Executive Session

9:00 – 10:30 am Library Directors Roundtable: Innovations, Alignment with School Goals and University; Future directions for the Harvard Library Leslie Donnell, Director of Library and Knowledge Services, Harvard Kennedy School Library

Meeting of the Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Library Page 3 of 4 March 21 – 22, 2017 Marilyn Dunn, Executive Director of the Schlesinger Library and Librarian for Radcliffe Institute Marcella Flaherty, Head of Public Services, Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education Douglas Gragg, Library Manager, Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School Michael Hemment, Senior Director, Baker Research Services, Baker Library Jocelyn Kennedy, Executive director, Harvard Law School Library Elaine Martin, Director, Head Librarian and Chief Administrative Officer of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Sarah Thomas, Vice President for the Harvard Library and University Librarian, Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Ann Whiteside, Librarian/Assistant Dean for Information Services, Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Question: What are the opportunities to leverage Harvard’s library resources for the advancement of common goals?

10:30 – 11:00 am Break

11:00 – 11:30 am The Harvard Library: Vision and Reality Sarah Thomas, Vice President for the Harvard Library

11:30 am – 12:30 pm Executive Session Lunch

12:30 – 1:00 pm Debriefing with Sarah Thomas Sarah Thomas, Vice President for the Harvard Library

1:00 – 1:30 pm Closing Session with Provost Provost Alan Garber, Harvard University

1:30 – 2:00 pm Librarian’s Farewell

Meeting of the Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Library Page 4 of 4 March 21 – 22, 2017 Overseers’ Committee to Visit the Harvard Library Presenter Bios

Robin Bernstein

Robin Bernstein is Chair and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard. An elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, she is a cultural historian who specializes in US theatre and performance, as well as the history of racialized childhood, from the nineteenth century through the present. She co-edits the book series “Performance and American Cultures” for New York University Press. She regularly teaches courses that engage with Harvard libraries and archives including Houghton Library, the Schlesinger Library, and the Peabody Museum, and she recently served on the search committee for the Curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection.

Lori Cawthorne

Lori Cawthorne is the Senior Human Resources Consultant for the Harvard Library. She holds a master’s degree in public management from Suffolk University and a bachelor’s degree in French from Grambling State University. Cawthorne spent many years as a social worker, working with adjudicated youth in the Midwest. When she moved to Boston in 1998, she transitioned to healthcare, working as a Benefits Specialist with Harvard Pilgrim Insurance and Local 26, Boston’s Hotel & Food Service Union. Upon entering graduate school in 1999, she was offered a job at Suffolk University in their Human Resources Office. In her 13 ½ years at Suffolk, Cawthorne grew in her HR role to eventually become the Associate Director of Human Resources. At Suffolk, she specialized in Employment, Labor Relations, Diversity and Employee Recognition.

- 1 - In her current position, Cawthorne acts as a business partner to several library departments and focuses on areas such as diversity and inclusion and performance management. In her role as an HR professional, she has been a frequent presenter at local colleges, universities and high schools, as well as local, regional and national conferences on the subjects of employee recognition, business etiquette and job preparedness.

Douglas Chan

Douglas Chan is a graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), where he is pursuing a Master's Degree in Mind, Brain & Education during the 2016-2017 academic year. Chan earned his bachelor’s degree in Integrated Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, where he received the Academic Science Fund student grant that would become the basis for his current S.T. Lee Innovation Grant proposal on exploring virtual reality for learning. He has completed coursework under HGSE’s professor Chris Dede in which he examined the emerging role of Academic MakerSpaces as places of informal learning across various disciplines.

Lisa M. Coleman

Lisa M. Coleman is Harvard University’s inaugural Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the President, where she is responsible for advancing strategic diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives across Harvard's schools, museums, centers, institutes, and leadership and executive education programs. She earned her doctorate in Social and Cultural Analysis, American Studies from New York University and three master’s degrees from the Ohio State University in African and African American Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Communication Studies. Her undergraduate degrees focused on sociology/ anthropology, computer science and women’s studies.

Coleman has spent over 20 years teaching and working with numerous universities and colleges including City University of New York, New York University (NYU), Vassar College, and the Ohio State University. Prior to Harvard, she directed the Africana program at Tufts University, and was later appointed by the President to serve as that institution’s first senior D&I officer. As a member of the President and Provost’s leadership teams, Coleman worked with senior leaders to create foundational university-wide

- 2 - D&I programs. She continues to consult with boards and senior leaders globally, and sit on various national and international boards including the United States National Association for Tennis (USTA), Sustained Dialogue National Board, and the Common Ground Board for International Diversity and Inclusion. Coleman is the recipient of numerous recognitions and awards for teaching and leadership, and for her work on diversity, inclusion, belonging and equity.

Leslie Donnell

Leslie Donnell is Director of Library and Knowledge Services at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS). She joined the HKS library staff in 2000 as senior research and instruction librarian, subsequently serving as the HKS manager of collections and digital content from 2009 to 2011. Donnell is currently co-chair of the Research, Teaching, and Learning Standing Committee, a member of the Library Leadership Team as well as the Library Directors’ Group. She served on the Collections and Content Standing Committee from 2014-2016.

A member and former chair of the New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NEASIST), Donnell earned her MSLIS from Simmons and her BA in history from Wheaton College.

Marilyn Dunn

Marilyn Dunn is Executive Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University and librarian for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Dunn earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, followed by a master’s degree in library and information science at Simmons College in Boston. She later earned a master’s in English literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Dunn began her career at Mount Holyoke College and was librarian and director of information resources at Hartwick College. She has participated professionally at the national level in the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association, serving on that organization's College Library Section Board and Women’s Studies Section Board. In 2001, the ACRL and Routledge Inc. recognized Dunn’s many

- 3 - contributions to her field with the ACRL WSS Award for Significant Achievement in Women’s Studies Librarianship.

Anne-Marie Eze

Anne-Marie Eze was appointed Houghton Library’s first Director of Scholarly and Public Programs in November 2016. In this new role, Eze assumed leadership for coordinating and implementing a dynamic vision for Houghton Library’s scholarly communications and public programming initiatives, including exhibitions, print and multimedia publications, fellowships, lectures, symposia, and tours. As Houghton Library’s chief communications officer, she is tasked with promoting increased engagement with and awareness of Houghton’s acclaimed collection of rare books, manuscripts, and archival holdings.

Prior to joining Harvard, Eze held curatorial positions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the British Library and Victoria and Albert Museum, and trained as a librarian at Cambridge University’s Trinity College Library. Educated in her native United Kingdom and in Italy, Eze holds a doctorate in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art and, from University College London, an MA in library and information studies, and a BA in classics.

Marcella Flaherty

Marcella Flaherty serves as Head of Public Services and Research Services Librarian and co-interim Director of Gutman Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Her entire library career of 35 years has been spent at Gutman Library, during which time she has been promoted multiple times to positions of increasing responsibility. Flaherty has served on many Harvard Library-wide and HGSE committees. She holds an MSLS from Simmons College and a BA from the University of Massachusetts.

Douglas Gragg

Douglas Gragg directs the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School. He is a member of the Harvard Library Leadership Team and the Library Directors Group and has served on numerous Harvard Library committees and working groups. As a former Affinity Group head, he served

- 4 - on the team that prepared the report, Towards a Collection and Content Development Strategic Plan for the Harvard Library. A participant in several professional societies, he recently completed service as a member of the board of directors of the American Theological Library Association.

Tom Hyry

Tom Hyry is the Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library, Harvard University, where he provides leadership and direction for all of the library’s collections, services, and programs. He has recently assumed additional responsibilities as Director of Arts and Special Collections of Harvard College Library, providing oversight to a new administrative unit consisting of the Fine Arts Library, the Harvard Film Archive, Houghton Library, and the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library.

Before joining the Houghton Library, Hyry had been director of special collections at the University of California, Los Angeles Library. At UCLA, he led the integration of five formerly separate units into a single, library-wide special collections department. Prior to his work at UCLA, Hyry spent 13 years at Yale University, where he was head of the manuscript unit at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and, in a separate position, was head of arrangement and description in the Manuscripts & Archives department. He holds a B.A. in history from Carleton College and a Master’s in Information and Library Studies from the University of Michigan, one of the last to receive the MILS degree from this institution.

Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky is Professor of History at Harvard University and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a historian of early America, the Atlantic world, and the age of revolutions, with particular interests in the histories of family, culture, and everyday life.

Kamensky received her BA (1985) and PhD (1993) in History from Yale University. Before coming to Harvard, she taught for two decades at Brandeis University, where she won two awards for excellence in teaching, and chaired the Department of History. She has also served as Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of History at Brown University. Her recent book A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley (W.W. Norton, 2016), won several awards,

- 5 - including the American History Book Prize of the New-York Historical Society and the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. A co-founder, with Jill Lepore, of the online journal Common-place, Kamensky has served on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, and the Journal of the Early Republic. A Commissioner of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, she was honored as a “Literary Light” by the Boston Public Library in 2017.

Robin Kelsey

Robin Kelsey is Dean of Arts and Humanities and Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. He holds a PhD in art history from Harvard and a JD from Yale Law School and has practiced law in California. A specialist in the history of photography, Dean Kelsey is the author of Photography and the Art of Chance, published by Harvard University Press in 2015, and Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890, published by the University of California Press in 2007. With Blake Stimson, he co-edited a book entitled The Meaning of Photography, published by the Clark Art Institute and Yale University Press in 2008. Kelsey has held visiting professorships at Williams College and the École normale supériere, Paris, and has received various awards for his scholarship and teaching, including the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, a Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship, and the Rosalyn Abramson Award.

Jocelyn Kennedy

Jocelyn Kennedy joined the Harvard Law School Library as the Executive Director in June 2016. Prior to joining Harvard, she was the Director for Library Services and Adjunct Professor at UConn School of Law in Hartford, CT. Prior to joining library administration, she served as the faculty research librarian and head of circulation at the University of Michigan Law School.

Kennedy is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire (BA/JD) and the University of Washington (MLIS) and is admitted to practice law in New Hampshire. Prior to becoming a librarian, she was a clerk for the New Hampshire Trial Court and spent five years as a Constituent Service Representative for a member of Congress.

- 6 - Elizabeth Kirk

Elizabeth Kirk is the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources for the Harvard Library. In this role, she provides system-wide leadership for collection development, as well as management of collection development within Harvard College Library, Information and Technical Services, and the Office for Scholarly Communication. Kirk began her career as a librarian in the Sheridan Libraries at the Johns Hopkins University, where she held several positions, including as founding director of the Entrepreneurial Library Program. She also was adjunct faculty in John Hopkins' graduate school of education, where she taught a core course in the adult and higher education program on the use of technology in course development and instructional design.

After leaving Hopkins, Kirk served as Associate Librarian for Information Services at Dartmouth College. She has spoken extensively on electronic information resources; library services to distance education; social entrepreneurship in libraries; copyright, scholarly publishing, and open scholarship. A native Rhode Islander, she holds a diploma from the Sorbonne; a BA in French from Barrington College; an MA in French literature from New York University, followed by advanced graduate work; and an MS in Library Science from Simmons College. Kirk was a Frye Leadership Institute fellow in 2001 and a UCLA Senior Fellow in 2010.

Elaine R. Martin

Elaine R. Martin MSLS, DA joined the Countway Library as the Director and Chief Administrative Officer in October 2016. In this role she oversees a complex organization with a $7.3 million budget and one of the largest collections of both current medical research materials and historical and rare collections in the world, holding more than 630,000 volumes. The Countway serves both academic and practicing physicians at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the Massachusetts Medical Society. At the Countway, Martin is responsible for providing leadership in strategic planning, development and the promotion of library resources and services. She also serves as the key library representative working closely with the University to embrace best practices and ultimately design the flagship medical library of the 21st century.

Previously, Martin was employed with the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, where she had been

- 7 - the Director of Library Services since 1998, leading the library there through a period of transformational change. She also served as the Director of Library Services of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region, for the past 15 years.

Peggy Newell

Peggy Newell joined Harvard’s Office of the President and Provost in November 2012 as Deputy Provost. She is responsible for strategic and tactical planning and management of all provost area activities, as well as advising the Provost on a wide array of administrative matters requiring executive decision-making. She works in concert with the University Development Office to assure that academic priorities drive fundraising. With the Executive Vice President, she plans for development and future use of 178 acres of property in Allston, which will include academic expansion, a million square feet of new space for science and engineering, an enterprise research campus, and a hotel and conference center. Newell oversees the Title IX Office, the budgets and financial management of all Provost’s offices and activities, and the Associate Provosts for Arts and Culture, Institutional Research, and Social Sciences & the Professions. She works closely with the Harvard Library to assure that the One Harvard initiative continues to thrive.

Prior to coming to Harvard, Newell held a variety of positions over a thirty- year career at Tufts University. She received her B.A. from Boston College, her M.B.A. from the Boston College Carroll Graduate School of Management, and her J.D. from Suffolk University. She was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in December 1993.

Ken Peterson

Ken Peterson is the Director of Access and Interim Associate University Librarian for Research and Education. He is leading initiatives to break down barriers to accessing collections and transforming Harvard’s storage strategy. A key initiative underway is the realignment of materials held at the Harvard Depository and transferring 1 million items to the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) facility on the Forrestal Campus of Princeton University. With the primary focus on improving user access to library materials, he is chairing the transition from the Aleph Integrated Library System to Alma, the Next Generation Library Platform. The improvement gained by the systems shift will allow users to access materials

- 8 - more easily, staff to redesign their workflows and diminish demand on the technology staff to support a nearly 20-year-old software solution.

Peterson holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of New Hampshire, Durham, and a Master’s of Science in Library Science from Simmons College, Boston.

Kenvi Phillips

Kenvi Phillips recently joined the staff of the Schlesinger Library as its first Curator for Race and Ethnicity. An accomplished historian, Phillips holds a master’s in public history and a doctorate in US history from Howard University. Before coming to the Schlesinger, she worked at the Mary McLeod Bethune House in Washington and the Maryland–National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Most recently, she served as assistant curator for manuscripts and librarian for prints and photographs at Howard’s internationally renowned Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.

Anu Vedantham

Anu Vedantham joined Harvard Library in 2016 as the Director of Learning and Teaching Services for the FAS Libraries. She previously directed the Weigle Information Commons at the Penn Libraries for nine years. Her research on global warming at the Environmental Defense Fund has been recognized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a significant contribution to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. At Stockton University, she directed the Southern Regional Educational Technology Training Center (ETTC), and served as Interim Associate Provost and Director of Instructional Technology. She served as Director of Grants and Community Initiatives at Stafford Township School District, and as Grants Program Officer at the Telecommunications Opportunities Program at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Vedantham holds her doctorate in Higher Education Management from Penn's Graduate School of Education, her New Jersey Principal Certificate, her Master’s in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

- 9 - Ann Baird Whiteside

Ann Baird Whiteside is Librarian/Assistant Dean for Information Services at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her focus is re-envisioning the 21st century library through her work, including expanding the creation of and access to digital information in close collaboration with scholars, and the use of technology to support teaching and research, and re-thinking the connections between space and information. Whiteside worked with the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) on the development of one of its three digital humanities efforts – SAHARA (http://www.sah.org/publications- and-research/sahara) – a collaboration between SAH, scholars, and librarians. She is active in many professional organizations and committees that shape approaches to the changing needs and opportunities faced by higher education and research libraries in an increasingly digital environment.

Suzanne Wones

Suzanne Wones has served as Director of Library Digital Strategies and Innovations at Harvard Library since January 2016. She leads the development and implementation of digital strategies for the Harvard Library community by extending Harvard Library’s reach in data management and visualization. Wones works to identify and examine trends in information technology and digital library development in coordination with multiple departments spanning the Library and Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT).

During her fifteen years as a Harvard librarian, Wones has advocated for user- focused innovations and developed creative solutions to advance the mission of the University. In her former position as Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Library, she led operations and programmatic efforts, as well as strategic planning and budget management. Before this position, she served as Assistant Director for Research, Curriculum, and Publication Support. Her career at the Harvard Law School Library began in 2007 as Head of Access Services, and she originally joined Harvard as a reference librarian at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Library.

Wones holds a MS in Information, Library and Information Services from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as well as an MA in American History from the University of New Hampshire and a BA in History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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