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Latest News
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Planned (with others) and attended a “value of academic libraries” think tank/focus group meeting prior to ALA Annual.
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Worked with task force and the Research Coordinating Committee in the RFP development.
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In October, attended ACRL Chapter meetings in Florida and South Dakota.
Upcoming Events
None at this time.
Press Box
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2009 ACRL President's Report to the ALA Council
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On July 22, 2009, ACRL President Erika Linke appeared on the WAMU - American University Radio/ Public Radio International program, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, as a panelist in a segment titled “More Information, Less Knowledge?”. The hour-long discussion highlights the changes in research habits in the Internet Age and “how our online habits are rewiring our brains and our research habits.” Take a listen!
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Betsy Wilson and Erika Linke. "Academic libraries foster key skills in next generation," Seattle Times, March 4, 2009. Read it here!
Bioraphical Information
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. The library at the Carnegie Mellon campus in Doha, Qatar, also reports to her. At Carnegie Mellon, she has served in a variety of progressively responsible positions. 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 is the 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 newly created network formed by the merger of PALINET and SOLINET, and serves as Secretary.
Ms. Linke’s current interests center on library collection issues and challenges; copyright, intellectual property and scholarly communication; and access to information and research resources. She is a member of a recently funded project to digitize out-of-copyright and rare books held at the Heritage Library in Doha, Qatar. Ms Linke is also an active participant in the Million Book Project, a collaborative effort with partners in China, India and the U.S. To date, the project has scanned over 1.6 million volumes. She has written and spoken about this project at meetings of the Digital Library Federation, the Modern Language Association and the International Association of Technological University Libraries.
She holds a BA from Miami University in German and Chinese and received her M.L.S. from the University of Minnesota.
Contact
E-mail Erika here.