| Title: | Thinking About the Future |
| Alternative Title: | Opening Session and Keynote |
| Author: | Luce, Richard E. |
| Description: | Richard E. Luce is the Vice-Provost and Director of Libraries at Emory University. He is responsible for managing the Main (Robert W. Woodruff) Library -- including libraries in Business, Chemistry, Music and Media, as well as the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL) -- and coordinating university-wide library policy with the Health, Law, Theology, and Oxford College Libraries. Prior to joining Emory, Rick was the Research Library director at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1991-2006). Known as an information technology pioneer and organizational innovator, he managed a world-class scientific research library, forging regional, national and international collaborations and providing digital library services to 27 institutions. In 2005 he was awarded the Fellows' Prize for Leadership at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the first ever awarded to a nonscientist, as well as a Distinguished Performance Award Recipient for his contributions supporting science and technology. In 1999 he was a co-founder of the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self-archiving systems. In October 2003 he co-organized the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, and in 2004, the Brazilian Declaration on Open Access. Rick holds numerous advisory and consultative positions supporting digital library development, electronic publishing and scholarly communication. He was the senior advisor to the Max Planck Society's Center for Information Management (2000-2006) and an executive board member of the National Information Standards Organization (1998-2004). Luce was the course director of the International Spring School on the Digital Library and E-Publishing for Science and Technology in Geneva and a founding member and chair of the Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information (AISTI). Luce held positions as the first executive director of the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN), director of Colorado's Irving Library Network and assistant director of the Boulder Public Library in Colorado. He speaks extensively in the areas of digital libraries and scientific communication, quality and change management, and strategic planning. Luce holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of San Diego, a master's degree in public administration from San Diego State University and master's degree in library and information science from the University of South Florida. |
| Type: | Presentation |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/13613 |
| Date: | 2007-02-22 |
| Contributor: | Emory University |
| Publisher: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Subject: |
eResource delivery and promotion
Future trends in information delivery Forecasting Information growth |
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