Task Force Working Groups

The Task Force on the Future of Libraries has established three working groups to address different, but related, sets of issues relevant to the task force’s charge.  The three groups are: Discovery and Use; Community and Relationships; Stewardship and Sustainability.

The working groups will gather data and input from a wide range of constituents and experts to provide a set of recommendations for how the MIT Libraries ought to evolve as a physical, virtual, and cultural entity, as illustrated to the right.

Working group membership is as follows:

Discovery and Use

The people, technology, policies, systems, and tools that promote the discovery and use of scholarly resources.

Faculty

• Chris Bourg (Chair) - Director, MIT Libraries
• Mary Fuller - Professor and Head of the Literature Section
• Cesar Hidalgo - Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
• Rafael Jaramillo - Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
• Jeffrey Ravel - Professor and Head of History Faculty
• Brent Ryan - Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning

Staff

• Lareese Hall - Architecture and Art Librarian, MIT Libraries
• Gita Manaktala - Editorial Director, MIT Press
• Sean Thomas - Program Manager for Scholarly Repository Services, MIT Libraries

Students

• Benjamin Tidor - Undergraduate student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Community and Relationships

The role of research libraries as a public good - locally, nationally, and globally; and the relationships of libraries with other players in the scholarly communications system, such as publishers; government agencies; industry; and other libraries, museums and archives.

Faculty

• Ethan Zuckerman (Chair) - Principal Research Scientist and Director of the Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab
• Isaac Chuang - Senior Associate Dean of Digital Learning; Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Physics
• Tim Grove - Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Geology and Associate Department Head, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Erica James - Associate Professor, Anthropology
• Amy Keating - Professor, Biology
• Leigh Royden - Professor, Geology and Geophysics
• Meejin Yoon - Professor, Head of the Department of Architecture

Staff

• Lareese Hall - Architecture and Art Librarian, MIT Libraries
• Sean Thomas - Program Manager for Scholarly Repository Services, MIT Libraries

Students

• Erhardt Graeff - Graduate student, Media Arts and Sciences
• Jetson Leder-Luis - Graduate student, Economics

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Stewardship and Sustainability

The responsibility for long-term preservation and sustainability of the scholarly record and the structures (tools, systems, policies, infrastructure, and business models) associated with the production and dissemination of scholarship.

Faculty

• Bruce Tidor (Chair) - Professor, Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• Adam Albright - Associate Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
• Tonio  Buonassisi - Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
• Stephen Graves - Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management Science; Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems, School of Engineering
• Stuart Madnick - John Norris Maguire (1960) Professor of Information Technology, Sloan School of Management
• Christine Ortiz - Dean for Graduate Education; Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
• Emily Pollock - Class of 1947 Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor, Music and Theater Arts

Staff

• Oliver Thomas - Technology Consutant, IS&T
• Sean Thomas - Program Manager for Scholarly Repository Services, MIT Libraries

Students

• Nicolas Hoffman - Undergraduate student, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
• Sophie Mori - Undergraduate student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Linguistics and Philosophy