Keynote: MBP@10: A Decade of Achievement, Progress, and Challenges
The Million Book Project inspired the international digital library community by turning the vision of a large-scale digital library into reality. Its conception and execution demonstrated the feasibility of creating and sharing digital content. This talk will highlight notable achievements and progress to the goal of creating a free-to-read digital library and will outline challenges and possible future directions.
Keynote Speaker:
Erika Linke
Ms. Linke is Associate Dean of University Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she has responsibility for library-wide public and user services, technical services and collection development including the library at the CMU campus in Doha, Qatar. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, she headed the Interlibrary Loan Services at the University of Minnesota including INFORM, a fee-based information service to the business community.
Ms. Linke recently served as President of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). In ACRL she has served on the ACRL Scholarly Communication Committee and the ACRL National Conference Program Planning Committee. She has chaired both the Copyright Committee and the Budget and Finance Committee. She has served as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of PALINET, a five-state library cooperative. She currently sits on the Board of Trustees of Lyrasis, a network formed by the merger of PALINET and SOLINET, and serves as Vice-Chair.
As a librarian her areas of professional interest center on digital libraries; digital library collection issues and challenges; copyright, intellectual property and scholarly communication; and access to information and research resources. At meetings of the Digital Library Federation, the Modern Language Association and the International Association of Technological & Scientific University Libraries, she has spoken about the Million Book Project.
She holds a BA from Miami University in German and Chinese and received her M.L.S. from the University of Minnesota.
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