Short Biographies of Speakers:

Dr., Prof. Yakov Shrayberg is Director General of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology (http://www.gpntb.ru/), President of ILIAC (http://www.iliac.org/) and Head of Department of Information Technologies and Electronic Libraries at Moscow University
of Culture and Arts. Dr. Shrayberg has managed several projects of Russian Federal Target Programs on information technologies and electronic libraries.

ILIAC, under Dr. Shrayberg's leadership, has been responsible for the 15 annual international Crimea Conferences, the most greatly attended conference of Russian-speaking and other librarians and exhibitors in the world.  As with last year's Fifteenth International Jubilee, Crimea Conference, the Crimea Conference for 2009 will be held in Sudak, Ukraine, on the shore of the Black Sea.

Dr. Daniel J. Clancy, PhD, is the Engineering Director for Google Book Search.  The goal of the Google Book Search project is to digitize the world's books and make them searchable online.  Google is working with both publishers and libraries as part of this project. Prior to coming to Google in January 2005, Dr. Clancy was the Director of the Exploration Technologies Directorate at NASA Ames Research center. The Directorate supports over 700 people performing both basic and applied research in a diverse range of technology areas intended to enable both robotic and human exploration missions.  Technology areas include Intelligent Systems, High-end Computing, Human-centered Systems, Bio/Nanotechnology, Entry Systems and others.  In this role, Dr. Clancy played numerous roles at the agency level including participating in the team that developed the agency's plan to return men to the Moon and eventually Mars.

Dr. Clancy received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in artificial intelligence. While in school, Dr. Clancy also worked at Trilogy Corporation, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Xerox Webster Research center. Dr. Clancy received a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1985 in computer science and theatre.

Heather Joseph joined SPARC as director in July 2005. Heather is responsible for SPARC’s overall program development. She determines and implements SPARC goals; leads SPARC’s advocacy efforts to support widespread adoption of open access to scholarly research; identifies and negotiates partnerships with scholarly publishers; builds coalitions of support; and generally represents the interests and values of SPARC to the stakeholders in scholarly communication.

Before coming to SPARC, the culmination of Heather’s career in scholarly publishing was serving as President and Chief Operating Officer for BioOne, a SPARC publisher partner. Under her leadership, BioOne focused on helping small scholarly societies in the biological sciences remain independent and competitive in the electronic arena, while maintaining academy friendly access policies. For her work in successfully launching and establishing BioOne, Heather was awarded the 2002 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’ Award for Services to Not-for-Profit Publishing. She also served as elected president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing for the 2004–2005 term.

Maura Marx began her career in Europe in development for the arts with organizations including the Guggenheim Museum (Salzburg) and Warner Brothers. She then worked as an executive in the U.S. technology sector before coming to the library world. Her accomplishments have included strategic planning, fundraising, technology planning and public relations for organizations at varying stages of growth. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Digital Commonwealth, the Massachusetts statewide digital library, and holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame, Middlebury College and Simmons College.

"Ms. Marx’s background in working both inside and outside the library system will help her communicate with a broad public audience the shape of the new public library services in this digital age." said Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. "Her dynamic style,
deep-seated commitment to open principles, and demonstrated success at implementing partnerships and initiatives in the digital space …" all will contribute to her success and leadership role on the national and global stage. "We are delighted that Maura will take on this leadership role.. [of] supporting a universal digital library that is truly open, non-profit, and non-exclusive" said Doron Weber, Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. "Maura will …play a leadership role on the national and global stage."

Sponsors:

The International Library, Information, and Analytical center (ILIAC) is a non-profit US and Russia-based corporation established with the goal to contribute to the development of educational, scientific, cultural and business cooperation between Russia and CIS countries, and the USA and other developed countries. As part of its educational program, ILIAC promotes the regular exchange of teachers, students, and professionals. In attendance will be two-dozen or more English-speaking Russian and CIS librarians who are current study-tour participants.

The Harriman Institute at Columbia University, formerly the Russian Institute, has maintained its position as a leading center for the advancement of knowledge in the field of Russian and Eurasian studies through the research conducted by its faculty, students, fellows and visiting scholars and the training of scholars and professionals. The Harriman Institute, through its programs, conferences, lectures, and publications—including Open Access and Libraries—seeks to create a forum for intellectual exchange and the further enhancement of our students’ education.

Conference Organizer:

The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D^TM Librarian, the ‘how I run my library good’^SM letter is a quarterly serial publication for libraries of a practical nature. Begun in 1973 by Marvin H. Scilken, it has been published by Maurice J. Freedman since 2000. In addition to the magazine, U*L offers library consulting services, and conference planning. Mr. Freedman is also a Past President of the American Library Association.

Acknowledgements:

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Jenna Freedman, Barnard College Library; Richard Johnson, Consultant; Heather Joseph, SPARC; Maura Marx, Open Knowledge Commons; James Neal, Columbia University Libraries; and Ksenia Volkova, Chief Specialist, ILIAC, all of whom provided valuable suggestions and input for the organization of this program and its speakers.

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Columbia University Libraries, Harriman Institute, ILIAC, and the School of International and Public Affairs for support of the conference and facilities arrangements.

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