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Director: Professor Beverly P. Lynch

Dr. Beverly LynchThe Fellows program is directed by Professor Beverly P. Lynch. Dr. Lynch's expertise includes the study of complex organizations and academic libraries as organizations, measurement and evaluation of libraries, and public policy. She was a Senior Fellow in the program's first class and has directed the UCLA program since 1990, having joined the UCLA faculty as Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 1989.

Dr. Lynch has been President of the Center for Research Libraries, University Librarian and Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Executive Director of the Association of College and Research Libraries, and has worked as a librarian and administrator in the libraries of Yale University, Marquette University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Dr. Lynch has published six books and over 100 papers. She has lectured widely in the U.S. and abroad, with important work on the measurement and evaluation of libraries carried out England , India, China, and Cyprus . She has been an officer in the International Federation of Libraries and Institutions (IFLA).

Long active in professional associations, Dr. Lynch has been President of the American Library Association (ALA) and has chaired ALA 's committees on Accreditation and International Relations, among many others . She is immediate past chair of the National Information Standards Organization's Board of Directors.

Other Faculty

    Faculty of the program in past years include:

    • Professor Helen Astin, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA;
    • Professor Terry Belanger, University Professor and Executive Director, Rare Book School, University of Virginia;
    • Professor Stanley Chodorow, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Council on Library and Information Resources, and Professor of History, University of California, San Diego;
    • James Davis, Associate Vice Chancellor, Information Technology, UCLA;
    • Carole Leland, Center for Creative Leadership;
    • Carla Stoffle, University Librarian, University of Arizona and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Center for Research Libraries;
    • Marshall Van Alstyne, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Michigan;
    • Duane Webster, Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries;
    • Richard West, Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer, the California State University.

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