The members of HathiTrust have elected three individuals to serve on its Board of Governors beginning January 1, 2016. Anne R. Kenney, Carl A. Kroch Librarian, Cornell University, and Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, will serve three-year terms that end in December 2018. Beth McNeil, Dean of Library Services at Iowa State University, will serve a one-year term.
Kenney was appointed to the Board in February 2015 to temporarily fill the seat left vacant by Patricia Steele's retirement from the University of Maryland. She has served on the Board of the Association of Research Libraries and currently serves on the Board of the Council on Library and Information Resources. Under Kenney's leadership Cornell University Library has consistently pursued cross-institutional collaboration, including the 2CUL partnership with Columbia University, and pursued sustainable business operations for major open access initiatives, such as arXiv.org, the e-print repository for physics, mathematics, and computer science.
Tabb joined Johns Hopkins University in 2002, after spending thirty years at the Library of Congress in a variety of roles, including thirteen as Acting Deputy Librarian and then as Associate Librarian for Library Services. He has served as a member of many governance and advisory boards in the Library community, and currently sits on the Boards of the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Digital Preservation Network and is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the Academic Preservation Trust.
McNeil joined Iowa State University this year, after serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Purdue University Libraries since 2009. Prior to joining Purdue she held senior leadership roles at the University of Nebraska Lincoln for over a decade. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of College and Research Libraries. McNeil will complete Steele's elected term.
Kenney and Tabb will replace outgoing Board members Sarah Michalak, Associate Provost and University Librarian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Carol Mandel, Dean of Libraries at New York University, whose three year terms conclude at the end of 2015.
The HathiTrust Board of Governors has ultimate responsibility for HathiTrust's activities, functions, finances, and operations. It includes six at-large members elected by the membership and six members appointed by the founding institutions, which include the University of Michigan, Indiana University, the University of California and the members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.
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