ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to help the academic community take full advantage of rapidly advancing information and networking technologies, has announced that Dr. Deanna Marcum has accepted the position of Managing Director, Ithaka S+R, effective January 1, 2012. Deanna will lead this not-for-profit service, which provides research and strategic consulting services that help transform scholarship and teaching.
Dr. Marcum brings a background of extraordinary accomplishment to her new role. She joins Ithaka S+R from the Library of Congress, where she was the Associate Librarian for Library Services. Previously, she served as the President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Dean of the Catholic University School of Library and Information Science.
Ithaka S+R is a research and consulting service that focuses on the transformation of scholarship and teaching in an online environment. Ithaka S+R pursues projects in five programmatic areas: Sustainability of Digital Resources, The Role of the Library, Practices & Attitudes in Scholarly Communications, Teaching & Learning with Technology, and Scholarly Publishing.
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