Lee Bagby Ceperich
Director, Library and Special Collections, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Margaret R. and Robert M. Freeman Library
Term FY 2019-2022
Lee Bagby Ceperich has served as Director of the Margaret R. and Robert M. Freeman Library at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts since 2010 and has held positions at VMFA since 2005. Prior to her arrival at VMFA she held positions at The Library of Virginia and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. She has served as a consultant for institutional special collections, as a reviewer for NEH grant programs and as an adjunct faculty member for Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Ceperich received an MLIS degree from Catholic University, an MA in Museum Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BA in Art History from James Madison University. Professional affiliations include ARLIS/NA, ALA (CALM, ACRL, RBMS) AAM, VAM, and WALRC.
Kevin GuthriePresident, ITHAKA Term FY 2018-2020
Kevin M. Guthrie is an executive and entrepreneur with expertise in high technology and not-for-profit management. Kevin was the founding president of JSTOR (1995) and Ithaka (2004). ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. ITHAKA provides four externally facing services: JSTOR, the research, teaching and learning platform, Artstor, the digital image collections platform, Portico, the digital preservation service, and Ithaka S+R, a strategy and research enterprise. ITHAKA has offices in New York, NY, Princeton, NJ, and Ann Arbor, MI. Previously Kevin co-founded a software development company serving the needs of college and professional football teams, and later served as a research associate at
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he authored The New-York Historical Society: Lessons from One Nonprofit's Long Struggle for Survival (Jossey Bass). In 2017 Kevin edited Ever the Leader: Selected Writings (1995 – 2016) William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press). His diverse background also includes experience as a professional football player, a sports broadcaster and producer, and a consultant for an Oscar-winning motion picture (Rain Man, 1988).
Wolfram Horstmann
Director of the Göttingen State and University Library and University Librarian of the University of Göttingen (Germany)
Term FY 2019-2020
Wolfram Horstmann is the Director of the Göttingen State and University Library and University Librarian of the University of Göttingen (Germany) and teaches electronic publishing and digital science as professor in the iSchool at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is an executive member and Chair of the Steering Group on Scholarly Communication and Research Infrastructure for the European Research Library Association LIBER, active in the Research Data Alliance (RDA), leads the German consortium of the European Digital Infrastructure for the Humanities DARIAH and is scientific coordinator for the Open Access initiative OpenAIRE and executive board member of the Confederation of Open Access repositories (COAR). In science policy, he is appointed to in standing committees in the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany and the European Open Science Cloud. Prior to his current position, he was the Associate Director at the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford, UK and Chief Information Officer at Bielefeld University, Germany. He has worked in Computational Neuroscience and made his PhD on questions in Philosophy of Science before he turned his attention towards digital science, scholarly communication and libraries.
Alexia Hudson-Ward
Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries for Oberlin College and Conservatory
Term FY 2019-2022
Alexia Hudson-Ward is the Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries for Oberlin College and Conservatory. Her transition to Oberlin follows a career of distinction as a tenured associate librarian at Penn State University Abington College, entertainment editor for The Philadelphia Tribune (the nation’s oldest continuing African American newspaper), promotions coordinator for WRTI-FM/Temple University Public Radio, and a marketing manager within The Coca-Cola Company’s Foodservice Division. She is the recipient of several honors including named as one of fifty “Mover and Shakers” by Library Journal in 2008 and the “Outstanding Young Alumni” awardee by the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information in 2013. A former member of the Executive Board of the American Library Association (2012-2015) and the current Vice-Chair/Chair Elect of ACRL’s College Libraries Section, she holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh, a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and African American Studies from Temple University and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions program at Simmons University
Heather Joseph
SPARC, Executive Director
Term FY 2019-2021
Heather Joseph serves as SPARC’s Executive Director, leading the strategic and operational activities of the organization. She has focused SPARC’s efforts on supporting new models for the open sharing of digital articles, data and educational resources. Under her stewardship, SPARC has become widely recognized as the leading international force for effective open access policies and practices.
Prior to joining SPARC, Heather spent 15 years as a publishing executive in both commercial and not-for-profit organizations. She was the publisher of the first journal to commit its full content to the NIH’s pioneering open access repository, PubMed Central, and subsequently served on the National Advisory Committee for this initiative. She is also the founder BioOne, a collaborative publishing organization designed to keep non-profit publishers operating independently.
Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer
Deputy State Librarian for Library Support Services at the New Jersey State Library
Term FY 2019-2022
Kathhleen Moeller-Peiffer is the Deputy State Librarian for Library Support Services at the New Jersey State Library. Before rejoining the New Jersey State Library, Kathleen was the State Librarian of New Mexico since 2015. Ms. Moeller-Peiffer served in a variety of positions at the New Jersey State Library, including Grants Specialist, Director of Library Development, Associate State Librarian for Legislative and Special Projects, and Deputy State Librarian for Lifelong Learning. Prior to joining the New Jersey State Library, Ms. Moeller-Peiffer worked in public libraries as Head of the Information Technology Department, Durham County Library (NC), county librarian, Orange County Library (NC) and assistant county librarian, Lake City Public Library (FL). Ms. Moeller-Peiffer has also held a variety of leadership positions within ALA’s Association of Specialized, Government and Cooperative Library Agencies, including the elected position of President. She has just been elected to ALA Council. Ms. Moeller-Peiffer is a graduate of the University of South Carolina at Columbia. She also holds an MSLS from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Kate PughFaculty, Columbia UniversityTerm FY 2019-2020
Kate was president of AlignConsulting, specializing in business planning and knowledge-based transformation. She was general editor and co-author of Smarter Innovation: Using Interactive Processes to Drive Better Business Results (Ark Group, 2014) and author of Sharing Hidden Know-How: How Managers Solve Thorny Problems with the Knowledge Jam (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, April 2011). Pugh has 18 years of consulting and seven years of industry experience in the healthcare, energy, information technology, and financial services sectors. She consults and lectures widely, and was a lead benchmarker with the Digital Workplace Group (formerly Intranet Benchmarking Forum).
Pugh consulted with Monitor Group, Oliver Wyman, PwC Consulting/IBM and Dialogos, Inc. She held leadership positions with Intel Corporation, JPMorgan, and Fidelity. She launched and ran Fidelity Personal and Workplace Investments KM program, co-managed Intel Solution Services' Knowledge and Process Management Group, and initiated and ran the JPMorganChase's Finance Portal Program for 4,000 users. With Larry Prusak, she co-led a research program on knowledge networks for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She has also launched over 20 communities of practice, including Intel's award-winning Enterprise Architects' community. Pugh has designed and launched dozens of social media, document management, and collaboration platforms.
Pugh holds an M.S./M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a B.A. in economics from Williams College, and certificates in dialogue, facilitation, mediation, and project management. She is a LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt. She served on the AIIM Knowledge Management Education Standards Committee, the Mitokine Bioscience Board, and is a member of SIKM Leaders (International and Boston Chapter).
Kaitlin Thaney
Endowment Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Term FY 2019-2021
Kaitlin Thaney helps mission-driven organizations think strategically about program design, participatory engagement and sustainability. She’s currently the Endowment Director for the Wikimedia Foundation, a permanent fund to sustain Wikipedia and its sister projects in perpetuity. Prior to joining Wikimedia, Thaney oversaw the program portfolio for the Mozilla Foundation, including science, learning, advocacy, Internet of Things, and women and web literacy. She founded and directed Mozilla’s first science program – the Mozilla Science Lab – empowering thousands of researchers, developers, and librarians to collaborate through fellowships, open source and project-based learning. Thaney has also helped launch and advise programs, governments and companies through work at Digital Science, the U.K. eLeadership Council, Creative Commons, MIT, Microsoft, and more.
Tyler Walters
Dean, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
Term FY 2019-2022
Tyler Walters, dean of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech, advocates for access to scholarly work. He has a history of leadership in the area of making knowledge publicly available.
He served as founding director of SHARE, a higher education initiative developing services to gather and freely share research and scholarly activities. He is a member of the Association of American Universities and Association of Public and Land-grant Universities public access working group. He also serves as President of the Board of Directors, DuraSpace, a not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data.
Evviva Weinraub Lajoie
Vice Provost for University Libraries, University at Buffalo
Term FY 2019-2021
Evviva Weinraub Lajoie is the Vice Provost for the University at Buffalo Libraries. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston University in History and her MLIS from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to her role at SUNY Buffalo, she has had increasingly prominent roles at Yale University on the Research4Life programs, Tufts University, Oregon State University, the Digital Preservation Network (DPN), and most recently served as the Associate University Librarian for Collections & Technologies at Northwestern University. She is an active leader in ALA, IFLA, and serves on the Program Steering Committee for Hathi Trust. She has published and spoken extensively on library management, user experience, and open source software development, communities, and collaboration.
