CLIR Annual Report: 2000 - 2001

Quotation excerpts in cover image are from Science and the Common Understanding by Robert Oppenheimer (Simon and Schuster 1954).
The complete quotation is:

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherancethese are what make a
vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.

Acknowledgments

Staff

Letter from the Chairman

Message From the President

The Programs

Resources for Scholarship

Preservation Awareness

Digital Libraries

Economics of Information

Leadership

International Developments

Publications

Advisory Groups

Grants and Contracts

Financial Statements

Francis X. Blouin
The University of Michigan

Jerry D. Campbell
University of Southern California

Stanley A. Chodorow
University of California

Billy E. Frye
Emory University

Nils Hasselmo
Association of American Universities

Paula T. Kaufman
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Susan Kent
Los Angeles Public Library

Paul LeClerc
New York Public Library

Klaus-Dieter Lehmann
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Deanna B. Marcum
Council on Library and Information Resources

Charles Phelps
University of Rochester

Elaine Sloan
Columbia University

Winston Tabb
Library of Congress

Dan Tonkery
The Faxon Company

Sidney Verba
Harvard University

Celia Ribeiro Zaher
Fundação Biblioteca Nacional Ministério de Cultura, Brazil

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) grew out of the 1997 merger of the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) and the Council on Library Resources (CLR). Over the years, CPA and CLR, in partnership with libraries, archives, and other information providers, advocated collaborative approaches to preserving the nation's intellectual heritage and strengthening the many components of its information system. CLIR was founded to continue this tradition of support for a national information system and a seamless web of information resources, of which all libraries and archives are a part.

The convening role is central to CLIR's mission. CLIR brings together experts from around the country and around the world and asks them to turn their intelligence to the problems that libraries, archives, and information organizations face as they integrate digital resources and services into their well-established print-based environments.

CLIR urges individuals to look beyond the immediate challenges and imagine the most desirable outcomes for the users of libraries and archives—to be rigorously practical and to dream.

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