ATG PROFILES ENCOURAGED
Jane Burke Vice President, Strategic Initiatives Ex Libris, a ProQuest Company 1350 E Touhy Avenue, Suite 150 W Des Plaines, IL 60018 Toll-free number: 1 (800) 762-6300 Phone: (847) 296-2200 Fax: (847) 296-5636 <jane.burke@exlibrisgroup.com> www.exlibrisgroup.com
Born and lived: Naperville, Illinois (and I still live there). Professional career and activities: My first library job was
at Cook Memorial Library in Libertyville, Illinois. I was the head of adult services. From there I joined the vendor side. I have had the honor of working at five great library automation organizations.
Early life: I come from a family of teachers and both of my parents always assumed I would be a teacher too. I rebelled by becoming a librarian, but in the long run ended up as a teacher after all. Professional career and activities: My professional career
has gone from consultant to librarian to LIS educator, each focused on a variety of issues surrounding e-resources, information technology, and scholarly publishing. The Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIST) has been my main professional society throughout, but I have attended and spoken at many LIS professional organizations, including SLA, Charleston Conferences, UKSG, IFLA, and so on.
Family: Husband Gerald (Jerry) Lundeen is an Emeritus Professor of LIS
from the University of Hawaii. Son Andrew Tenopir Lundeen is an Assistant Professor librarian in special collections at Michigan State University, daughter-in-law Norma Lundeen is the MSU Extension Planning and Reporting Project Manager.
Favorite books: Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore. Plus
In my spare time: I cheer for the UT Lady Vols basketball team, travel,
Philosophy: “You’ll never learn any younger” (as my mother used to
Favorite books: The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cher-
trashy action thrillers. say).
How/where do I see the industry in five years: I think that libraries will be completely centered in their community. The old notion that users need to come to the library will be completely gone, and libraries will have embraced the need for outreach. I am very optimistic about the incoming generation of librarians who will push this change. And I believe the industry will respond.
Carol Tenopir Chancellor’s Professor School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, 1345 Circle Park Drive, 451 Communications Building Knoxville, TN 37996-0341 Phone: (865) 974-7911 <ctenopir@utk.edu> https://scholar.cci.utk.edu/carol-tenopir/
Born and lived: I was born in Whittier, California and went to Whittier
High School and Whittier College. After getting my MSLS from Cal State, I worked for an information consulting firm in Southern California until moving to Honolulu in 1979 as (first) the Library Systems Librarian at the University of Hawaii and, after finishing my Phd at the University of Illinois, a professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Hawaii. We moved to Knoxville, Tennessee in 1994 where I became a Professor at the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences. Sabbaticals and Fulbright awards have allowed me to live temporarily in Australia and in Finland.
read, walk, and go to movies.
ry-Garrard; David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; Paula by Isabel Allende.
Pet peeves: People who are so entrenched in their beliefs that they won’t collaborate with others to find a solution to shared problems.
Most memorable career achievement: I think the biggest
achievement of my career is persistence. I wrote the monthly “Online Databases” column for Library Journal for 28 years. (I’m still not sure how I did that while finishing my doctorate, raising a son, starting a academic career, getting tenured and promoted…) I have conducted studies of how researchers use information in their work, asking many of the same questions, for over 30 years. And, my research team just finished the third survey in a decade of scientists’ research data attitudes and practices. I think those who are willing and determined to track issues over time can help provide insights into how the past and present will influence the future.
Goal I hope to achieve five years from now: Be happily retired!
How/where do I see the industry in five years: If the
scholarly communication industry is to survive and thrive, the various stakeholders must see each other as partners rather than adversaries. Librarians, scholarly societies, commercial publishers, editors, authors, readers, vendors, and others all have a stake in the process of providing and preserving high quality research information. Fragmentation and fractiousness hinder the progress of improving dissemination and preservation through use of new technologies and better understanding of researcher needs. So, on my gloomy days, I see in five years a further fragmented system that is non-sustainable. On my positive days I see an integrated system of stakeholders working together to solve technological and societal problems to provide better access and related information services. profiles continued on page 76
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