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Ms Paula Kaufman
University Librarian, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paula Kaufman is the University Librarian and Dean of Libraries
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a position
she has held since 1999, with a break in 2006/07 when she served
as the University’s Interim Chief Information Officer. Before
joining the faculty at Illinois, she spent eleven years as Dean
of Libraries at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prior
to taking that position she served at the Columbia University
Libraries as Acting Vice President, Director of Academic
Information Services, Director of Library Services, Acting Head
of the East Asia Libraries, and Head of the Business Library.
She also has considerable experience in the private sector, at
McKinsey and Company and as co-founder and partner of
Information for Business.
Dean Kaufman has written and made presentations on a number of
issues pertaining to scholarly information, privacy, copyright,
research libraries, recruitment, and leadership. Her recent
presentations include “Role and Mission of Academic Libraries:
Present and Future.” Japanese Association of Private University
Libraries, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, November 18, 2005,
“Libraries in the Licensed World” at the Intellectual Property
Symposium, University of Iowa, February 25, 2005, panels on
shared storage facilities and leadership at the 2004 annual
meeting of the Illinois ACRL, “Research Libraries in the Future”
at the Midwest Higher Education Facilities Management
Association, Champaign, IL, June 9, 2003, “Everything Old is New
Again, or is It?” at the Library Association of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Annual Conference, March 17,
2003, “Quo Vadis? Scholarly Communication and Trends in Research
Libraries.” Knoxville, TN, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Libraries e-Forum: Electronic Issues for the Academy, November
8, 2002.
Dean Kaufman has served the profession with board memberships in
the Center for Research Libraries (chair), the Association of
Research Libraries (president), the Council on Library and
Information Resources (currently chair), the Consortium of
Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, the Illinois
Computer Services Organization, the Research Libraries Group,
the Society for Scholarly Publishing, CAUSE, and Solinet
(chair). She has served on numerous university committees at
the University of Illinois, the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, and Columbia University.
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For more information on the
seminar, please email:
Ms Janice Chia at
j.chia@elsevier.com
