CIC Center for Library Initiatives Director Mark Sandler to Retire
InfoDOCKET reports that “Mark Sandler, Director of the CIC Center for Library Initiatives, has announced his retirement, effective February 29, 2016. Now entering his tenth year of service to the CIC and its 15 member universities, Dr. Sandler also served for 20 years on the staff of the University of Michigan Library.
Mark has led the CIC university libraries through a period of unprecedented strategic collaboration and growth, overseeing the implementation of a contract with Google to digitize 10 million book volumes in the university libraries, the acceleration of a portfolio of coordinated licenses and contracts exceeding $39 million, the development of an annual shared pool of $3.5 million for coordinated library acquisitions, and the establishment of a shared print repository resulting in significant shelf storage relief for participating CIC universities…
A late transplant to the Midwest from New York City (with a brief side trip to Arkansas) Mark brings a mix of idiosyncratic brilliance and affability to his work. A frequent guest lecturer, speaker, and author, he is known for his unorthodox and iconoclastic contributions to the literature, with such titles as “Hopelessly Lost, But Making Good Time: Libraries Rushing Hither and Yon,” “Kentucky Fired Libraries: Battered and Chewed up in the Digital Marketplace,” and “The Buzzards are Circling, and other Library Metrics…”
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, Michigan scholar, named University Librarian
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason — a scholar with expertise in human interaction with online information, economics and public policy, along with administrative experience in higher education — has been named UC Berkeley’s University Librarian.
MacKie-Mason comes to Berkeley from the University of Michigan, where he has served as dean of the School of Information since 2010. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele announced his new appointment in a June 12 CalMessage, following approval by the UC regents.
Academic libraries historically have been vital in advancing culture and science,” says MacKie-Mason. “Now, in this age of abundant information, the modern library is more important than ever in assisting students and faculty to take that information and convert it into knowledge and wisdom.”
Much of MacKie-Mason’s scholarly work “has concentrated on questions concerning digital libraries and electronic access to materials and journals,” Steele wrote in his message to campus. As a scholar and a dean, he has “considered the very issues now facing university libraries…”
Reid Library Director Elected to ILA Executive Board
Dennis Krieb, of Lewis and Clark Community College, has been elected to serve on the executive board of the Illinois Library Association (ILA). ILA acts as the voice for libraries across the state. The organization provides leadership for development and improvement of libraries to ensure everyone has access to information. The ILA is the third largest organization of its kind, with 3,600 members.
“ILA is very active in public policy issues, so the opportunity to be a part of this process will be exciting,” said Krieb, who is L&C’s director of Institutional Research and Library Services. “I am also looking forward to working with colleagues outside the academic library world.”
ProQuest Awards Samuel Dodson 2015 Summit Scholarship
ProQuest names Samuel Dodson, an MLIS student at the University of British Columbia, the recipient of the 2015 Roger K. Summit Scholarship. For more than 20 years this prestigious scholarship of US$5,000, named in honor of Dialog founder Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing online information retrieval services, has been given to a promising graduate student in library and information sciences. Mr. Dodson was presented the award June 14 at the Special Libraries Association’s annual conference in Boston.
“Our selection committee reviewed a remarkable field of applicants this year,” said Lynda James-Gilboe, ProQuest vice president, customer experience. “Samuel is one of the strongest candidates we have seen over the years. He has a computer science background and is currently pursuing a dual Master of Archival Studies and Master of Library and Information Studies. His innovative thinking and work in helping libraries make a smooth, successful digital migration make him an ideal recipient of the scholarship…”
New addition to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) editorial team
“OCLC is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Carol A. Bean as associate editor of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Carol comes to us from her position as Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford University, the culmination of an illustrious career combining medical informatics and knowledge organization.
The medical informatics perspective is evident in positions Carol has held as research information scientist, biomedical informatics program officer, and chief enterprise terminology officer within the (U.S.) National Institutes of Health (NIH) and as director of the Office for Certification in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
The knowledge organization perspective is visible through a faculty appointment in the School of Information Sciences of the University of Tennessee, where Dr. Bean taught courses in cataloging and classification, abstracting and indexing, and health care informatics. Carol’s research and publications have focused on, inter alia, relationships in knowledge organization systems (KOS), creating mappings between KOS, semantic interoperability, information extraction from medical texts, and topical relevance relationships…”