RLG Board of Directors' Biographical
Sketches
September 2003 - August 2004
Susan M. Allen was appointed the first chief librarian of the Research
Library, Getty Research Institute, in June 1999. Previously, she was head
of the Department of Special Collections, Young Research Library, University
of California Los Angeles from January 1997 to 1999; and director of Libraries
and Media Services at Kalamazoo College from 1993 to 1997. Prior to 1997,
she held several posts in the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges, including
head of Special Collections. Allen currently serves on The Bibliographical
Society of America Council, the Executive Committee and Governing Board of
the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium, and the Arroyo Seco
Library Network Council. While in Michigan, she served on the boards of the
Michigan Center for the Book and the Michigan Library Consortium, and she
has chaired the Rare Books and Manuscripts section of the American Library
Association. She has spoken often and published extensively on rare book theft
and library security and undergraduate use of rare books and manuscripts.
Allen received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, a further master's from St. John's College in New Mexico,
and her PhD in Library and Information Science from UCLA. Her current term
on the RLG board expires in August 2004.
Nina M. Archabal is the first woman director and chief executive officer
of the 147-year-old Minnesota Historical Society, one of the largest in the
country. She has been with the Society since 1977, and since 1987 has served
both as its director and as Minnesota's state historic preservation officer.
She has served on the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, and is a council
member for the Smithsonian Institution, fall 2002-2004. Archabal is a former
member of the National Council on the Humanities, which advises the chair
of the National Endowment for the Humanities; in 1997 she was awarded the
National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton. She has served on the
Board of Directors of the American Folklife Center and is a past chair of
the American Association of Museums. Archabal received a BA from Radcliffe
College, an MAT from Harvard University, and a PhD from the University of
Minnesota. Her current term expires in August 2006.
David H. Cohen, vice president for Arts and Sciences and dean
of the faculty at Columbia University, was appointed to that position
in August 1995 after serving in the administration at Northwestern University
for nine years, first as vice president for research and dean of the
graduate school and then as provost. His previous career included professorships
in neurobiology and behavior, anatomical sciences, and psychology at
the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Cohen has been president
of the Society for Neuroscience and chairman of the Association of American
Medical Colleges. He has written more than 135 articles, book chapters,
and abstracts and has served as editor of Neuroscience Newsletter,
associate editor of Experimental Neurology and The Journal
of Neuroscience, and member of the editorial board of Physiological
Reviews. He has participated in numerous federal panels and committees
and served on the boards of the Argonne National Laboratory, the Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory, Zenith Electronics, and Columbia University
Press. This is Cohen's second round of service on the RLG board, where
he serves as director at large; his current term ends in August 2004.
Ellen S. Dunlap is president of the American Antiquarian Society. She
also serves as chair of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, is
on the boards of the Massachusetts Center for the Book, Rare Books School,
and ESTC/North America, and is on the Academic Affairs Committee of the Winterthur
Museum and the Visiting Committee of the Maryland Historical Society. She
was chair of RLG's Archives, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Program
from 1989 to 1991 and subsequently served on RLG's Programs Advisory Committee.
In addition to her service on the RLG board, she currently serves on the RLG
Cultural Materials Alliance policy advisory group. Prior to moving to AAS,
she was director of the Rosenbach Museum and Library from 1983 to 1992 and
was a research librarian at the Humanities Research Center (now the Harry
Ransom Center) of the University of Texas at Austin from 1976 to 1983. Dunlap
was awarded a BA with honors and an MLS by the University of Texas at Austin.
Her second term expires in August 2004.
David S. Ferriero is the Rita Digiallonardo Holloway University Librarian
and vice provost for Library Affairs at Duke University. He joined the staff
of Duke University in October 1996 after 31 years in the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology Libraries. Starting as a shelver in the Humanities Library at
MIT, Ferriero was later associate director for Public Services and was acting
co-director of Libraries at the time of his departure for Duke. His current
professional responsibilities include serving on the editorial advisory board
of the Duke University Press and the board of directors of Early English Books
Online. He chairs the North Carolina Access to Special Collections Working
Group, which provides access to the cultural resources of North Carolina through
the portal at www.ncecho.org. In addition, Ferriero is vice president of the
Triangle University Center for Advanced Studies, Inc. and a member of the
board of directors and past treasurer of the Center for Research Libraries.
He holds BA and MA degrees in English from Northeastern University and a master's
degree in Library Science from Simmons College. His current term on the RLG
board expires in August 2005.
Jan
Fullerton was appointed director-general of the National Library of Australia
in August 1999, following a 32-year career in the research library environment—the
first female and the first internal appointment to this leadership position
in the Australian library community. She is currently chair of the Conference
of Directors of National Libraries, a body consisting of the national librarians
of the world, which meets annually during the IFLA Conference. Fullerton's
background includes fundamental library operations: cataloging, acquisitions
and collection development, preservation, and information services. As director
of Collections and Reader Services, and subsequently as deputy director-general,
Fullerton led the development of the National Library's digital collection
and access policies and services, and the creation of the PANDORA Archive.
In an effort to break down barriers that prevent users from accessing information
resources, she has expanded the Library's collaboration beyond the library
sector to encompass archives, museums, galleries, and the university sector.
Under her direction the Library has contributed to international standards
for preserving digital resources. Fullerton has a BA from the University of
Queensland and a post-graduate Diploma in Librarianship from the University
of New South Wales. Her current term on the board expires in August 2006.
Noel E. Hanf has served as the corporation's secretary and legal
counsel since RLG was founded in 1975. He is the managing partner in
the firm of Wiggin & Dana in New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of
its Executive Committee. He has extensive experience with tax-exempt
educational organizations as well as regulatory and administrative law.
Hanf joined Wiggin & Dana in 1969 after three years of active duty in
the United States Air Force. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard
Law School, he serves on the Executive Committee of the Public Utility
Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and as a member of the
Energy Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Thomas Leonard currently serves as university librarian at the University
of California at Berkeley. He taught history at Columbia University and for
the past two decades at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where he
was associate dean for many years. He is also the author of The Power of
the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting (1987) and News
for All: America's Coming-of-Age with the Press (1995). Leonard received
his BA from the University of Michigan and his PhD in History from the University
of California at Berkeley. His current term expires in August 2005.
Carol A. Mandel is dean of the Division of Libraries at New York University,
which includes the Libraries, University Archives, TV and Media Services,
and the NYU Press. She has been deputy university librarian at Columbia University,
associate university librarian for Technical and Access Services at the University
of California at San Diego, and associate executive director of the Association
of Research Libraries. Her professional interests and publications include
digital library development, scholarly publishing, preservation, and bibliographic
access; she has been a consultant to the Association of Research Libraries,
the Commission on Preservation and Access, the Council on Library Resources,
and the Library of Congress. She is a member of the Library of Congress National
Digital Strategy Advisory Board and the Advisory Board of the American Council
of Learned Societies History E-Book Project. Her second term on the board
expires in August 2006.
James Michalko is president and chief executive officer of RLG.
He joined RLG in 1980 and served as chief financial officer in the early
1980s; in 1985 he was named vice president for Finance and Administration.
He was appointed to the position of president in 1989. Prior to joining
RLG, Michalko held positions in private industry, the University of
Chicago libraries, and the University of Pennsylvania libraries.
RLG board chair James Neal was named vice president for Information
Services and university librarian at Columbia University in 2001. His responsibilities
include university academic computing and network services, the university
libraries, the electronic publishing program (EPIC), the research and development
program (CRIA), and the instructional technology program (CCNMTL). Previously,
he served as dean of University Libraries at Indiana University and at John
Hopkins University, and held administrative positions in the libraries at
Penn State, University of Notre Dame, and City University of New York. He
has served on the council and executive board of the American Library Association,
on the board and as president of the Association of Research Libraries, and
as chair of OCLC's Research Library Advisory Council. He is active professionally
in the areas of scholarly communication and publishing, serving currently
as chair of SPARC, and intellectual property and copyright, serving on policy
and advisory groups for universities and associations. Neal holds a BA in
Russian Studies from Rutgers College, an MS in library science, an MA in History,
and a Certificate in Advanced Librarianship from Columbia. His current term
on the board expires in 2006.
Doralynn Pines has been associate director for Administration at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1996. For 16 years prior to that appointment,
she held various responsibilities in the Museum's Thomas J. Watson Library,
most recently as the Arthur K. Watson Chief Librarian. In her capacity as
associate director, Pines oversees the Metropolitan's main research library,
its photograph and slide library, and the smaller libraries that are part
of the Museum's 18 curatorial departments and four conservation departments.
She is also responsible for the collections management system for the two
million objects in the museum's collection. Pines is the author of articles
that have appeared in Art Libraries Journal, Art Documentation,
and other scholarly publications. A graduate of Barnard College, Pines earned
an MS from the Columbia University School of Library Science and an MPhil
and PhD from Columbia's Department of Art History and Archaeology. She was
also awarded an MA and a Certificate in Museum Training from New York University's
Institute of Fine Arts. Her current term on the RLG board expires in August
2005.
Chris Rusbridge is director of Information Services at University of
Glasgow, where his responsibilities include the Library and Archives together
with Information Technology, Management Information Systems, and Audio/Visual
Services. For the previous five years he was programme director of the JISC
Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), responsible for a major digital library
research and development program. Prior to that Rusbridge was a library informations
systems coordinator in Australia, the IT director at the University of Dundee,
in charge of academic computing services at the University of South Australia
and its predecessor, and a manager of major development projects for International
Computers Ltd. and for the South Australian Hospitals Department. He has a
BSc in Physics from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. His
second term expires in August 2006.
Robert H. Scott is RLG's treasurer and a self-employed consultant
to not-for-profit institutions. From 1994 to 1996 he was vice president
of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. He spent the previous 18 years at
Harvard University as director of the Office for Information Technology,
director of the Office of Financial Systems, associate dean for resource
planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, vice president for administration,
and, from 1987 to 1994, as vice president for finance.
Peggy A. Seiden has been college librarian of Swarthmore College since
1998. Previously, she was at Skidmore College for six years, the last five
as college librarian. Between 1982 and 1990, Seiden held various responsibilities
associated with information management and technology at Carnegie Mellon University.
She currently serves on the American Library Association Council. She has
also been active in the ALA Reference and User Services Association, of which
she served as president for 1999-2000. Seiden holds a BA from Colby College,
an MA in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto, and a master's in
Library and Information Science from Rutgers University. Her current term
expires in August 2005.
Karin A. Trainer was named Princeton University librarian in 1996,
following a 13-year career as associate university librarian at Yale. Her
current professional responsibilities include serving as a trustee of the
Princeton University Press and on the Diversity Committee of the Association
of Research Libraries, the Advisory Committee of the Digital Library Federation,
the Management Committee of the Index of Christian Art, and the Advisory Board
of Princeton's Center of Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. Between 1978 and
1983 Trainer served as director of technical and automated services for the
New York University Libraries. Her first professional position was at Princeton,
where she had various responsibilities associated with technical services
and technology. Trainer has been active in the American Library Association,
particularly in the area of standards, and was review editor of Information
Technology and Libraries for six years. She has been involved in the work
of RLG since 1980, serving on various public service, technology, and planning
committees. Trainer holds a BA in English from Douglass College at Rutgers
University, an MS in Library and Information Science from Drexel University,
and an MA in Liberal Studies from New York University. Her second term expires
in August 2004.
David S. Zeidberg is the Avery Director of the Huntington Library.
Previous posts include head of Special Collections at University of
California at Los Angeles (1984-1996), curator of Special Collections
at George Washington University (1975-1984), and rare books librarian
at Syracuse (1972-75). He has written on topics such as teaching the
use of primary resources and the future of special collections libraries
in the age of technology; is the editor of a collection of essays, Aldus
Manutius and Renaissance Culture (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1998);
and has lectured most recently on the marketing of books in the 15th
century. He currently serves as an RLG director at large; his second term expires in August 2005.
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