CPA Annual Report: 1997 - 1998

Acknowledgments

Staff

Message From the President

The Programs

Preservation and Access

Digital Libraries

The Economics of Information

Leadership

ACLS/CLIR Task Forces

Publications

Advisory Groups

Grants and Contracts

Stanley A. Chodorow, Chair, University of Pennsylvania

Betty G. Bengtson, University of Washington

Virginia Betancourt,^** Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela

Christine L. Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles

Robert Bovenschulte,^** American Chemical Society

Harvey Brooks^*

Jerry D. Campbell, University of Southern California

Samuel DuBois Cook,^* Dillard University

Billy E. Frye, Emory University

David B. Gracy, II, The University of Texas at Austin

William N. Hubbard, Jr.,^*

Carole Huxley,^* New York State Education Department

Paul LeClerc, New York Public Library

Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, Die Deutsche Bibliothek

Herman Liebaers,^*

Peter Lyman, University of California, Berkeley

Deanna B. Marcum, Council on Library and Information Resources

Marilyn Gell Mason, Cleveland Public Library

Charles Phelps,^** University of Rochester

Cornelius J. Pings,^* Association of American Universities

Elaine Sloan, Columbia University Libraries

Winston Tabb, Library of Congress

Dan Tonkery, Dawson Subscription Group

Sidney Verba, Harvard University Library

* Until November 1997

** Beginning May 1998

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 library and archives—to be rigorously practical and to dream.

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