Robert Kiley
Plan S: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Online)
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 9:15 am – 10:15 am
Robert Kiley is Head of Strategy at cOAlition S, working to accelerate the transition to full and immediate Open Access. Prior to this he was Head of Open Research at the Wellcome Trust where he was responsible for developing and implementing their open research strategy.
Over the past decade Robert has played a leading role in the implementation of Wellcome’s open access policy and overseeing the development of the Europe PubMed Central repository. He also led the development – in partnership with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society – of eLife, the open-access research journal, launched in 2012. More recently he championed the work to create a new open publishing platform for Wellcome researchers – Wellcome Open Research.
Robert is a qualified librarian and served for 6 years on the ORCID Board of Directors.
Claire DeMarco
Data, Description, Discovery: Dialogues about the Role of AI in Academic Libraries
Tuesday, November 19, 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Claire DeMarco is the Director of Information Discovery Services at Harvard Library. In this role, she provides strategic leadership for the expansion of discovery and access through innovative approaches to both digital library initiatives and technical services. Her work is grounded in user experience research, accessibility, and open knowledge. The teams under Claire’s direction include the Harvard Library User Research Center, Digital Collections Discovery Services, Metadata Management & Project Strategy, Metadata Creation, E-Resources and Serials, and Acquisitions.
Claire has presented at numerous conferences for organizations including: the Coalition for Networked Information, the Digital Library Federation, Electronic Resources & Libraries, Google Books, the University of Michigan School of Information, and Designing for Digital. Most recently, Claire was an invited keynote speaker at the Columbian International Congress of Libraries and Culture.
During previous periods of her career, Claire worked as a managing attorney in health care practice and as a research specialist in legislative and regulatory affairs at both state and Federal levels. She has also served as an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University School of Law. She holds an A.B. from Mount Holyoke College, an M.S.L.I.S. from Drexel University, and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School.
Lorcan Dempsey
Libraries, AI and the Service Horizon (Online)
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm
Lorcan Dempsey is a librarian who has worked for library, non-profit and educational organizations in Ireland, the UK and the US. His influence on library directions in the US, Europe and around the world is widely recognized. He has overseen national library and informational programs in the UK and has managed two internationally recognized library R&D units (UKOLN and OCLC Research). He has been responsible for innovative network information systems. He has also overseen a variety of membership and governance activities, as well as operational services.
Lorcan is currently Professor of Practice and Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Information School, University of Washington. He worked for over twenty years at OCLC, a global library services organization and before this he worked for national educational infrastructure and innovation organization, Jisc, in the UK. He began his library career in public libraries in Dublin, Ireland, where he grew up. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Open University in the UK, the IFLA Medal, the Miles Conrad Award, and other honors in recognition of his contribution to library development around the world. He was very pleased to have his work acknowledged by a special award from the Library Association of Ireland.
