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2006-2007 Annual Report
Letter from the Chairperson
Exciting things are happening at CLIR. Since my election as chairperson of the Board last November, much has changed for our organization. It has been a year of exceptional growth and rewards. In November, the Board appointed Charles Henry as CLIR's new president. We recognized that Chuck, trained in the humanities, and with experience in library leadership, computational sciences, and publishing, has the unique skills and background needed to lead us in new directions.
Chuck set forth his vision for the organization in a major funding proposal submitted to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in late 2006. The Foundation's decision to fund the proposal, CLIR's most significant award in several years, marked the start of a new, three-year agenda that focuses on evolving scholarship and the infrastructure needed to support it.
Also in the past year, two important appointments have added significant depth to our staff. The arrival of Amy Friedlander as program director in April and the appointment of Michael Keller as presidential fellow in July will enable us to more fully explore a range of topics central to our new agenda.
Amid these developments, we have continued to strengthen our established programs and activities, such as the Frye Leadership Institute and the Postdoctoral Fellowships in Scholarly Information Resources.
Under new leadership and with new staff members, we are well positioned to advance the pivotal issues affecting academic libraries and the scholarly community at large. In so doing, we are working from a long tradition of catalyzing change and of leading responses to emerging challenges in the profession.
I look to the year ahead with great confidence.
Paula Kaufman
September 2007
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