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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B>Press release 11/12/2</B><B>0</B><B>08</B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us">fter a national search, OSU Libraries has hired Terry Reese, Jr as the new holder of the Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services. Reese has been at Oregon State University since 2003. He is known nationally and internationally for his leadership in the investigation and application of new metadata and digitization standards to digital collections. His MarcEdit program has been adopted by libraries in the United States, in Australia, in France and in Pakistan. More recently he has, with former Gray Chair holder, Jeremy Frumkin, developed LibraryFind, an open source resource discovery tool, used by libraries in the United States and Europe. Terry is the author of numerous articles, he has presented widely, and he is the co-author of the book,<I> Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual</I>. He is an adjunct professor with the Emporia University School of Information. </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">The Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services is an endowed chair. The focus of the chair is to:</SPAN></P>
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<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us">Identify innovative means for accessing and improving the delivery of information to the students, faculty, staff and other constituents of Oregon State University with the goal of moving Oregon State University Libraries to the forefront as an information provider;</SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us">Anticipate trends in technology relevant to Library Services</SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us">Develop and implement a strategy for making print and digitized information more easily accessible to users of the Oregon State University Libraries;</SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us">Form and coordinate project teams of librarians, researchers and graduate students who will develop methods for adapting advances in information technology to meet the needs of researchers, students and the citizens of Oregon.</SPAN></LI></DIV>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><B><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></I></B><A NAME=""><B><I><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF6600">Kerrie Cook</FONT></SPAN></I></B></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF6600"><BR>
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Executive Assistant<BR>
to the University Librarian<BR>
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